Film Score Friday 10/20/00
by Lukas Kendall
It's horrible! Warner Japan has canceled its previously announced CDs
of Under Fire and Twilight Zone: The Movie (Jerry Goldsmith).
No reason is known at the moment. My heart goes out to those who tried
to sell their rare, old Under Fire CDs on ebay to make a quick score
before the reissue...
Universal's DVD of Legend, to feature both the U.S. and overseas
cuts of the movie (music by Tangerine Dream and Jerry Goldsmith, respectively)
has been delayed. This is NOT a cancelation though, so stay tuned.
Intrada will release Mark McKenzie's score to The Lost Child,
an upcoming Hallmark Hall of Fame telefilm.
Tomorrow...
Mark your calendars for Saturday, October 21 at 3PM when the Virgin
Megastore in Burbank is hosting an afternoon of "music, monsters and
an informal presentation about horror film music restoration and recording."
Special guests are the Marco Polo reconstruction/recording team of William
Stromberg and John Morgan; archivist/author Scott McQueen; and author Jon
Burlingame, who will be signing copies of his new Sound and Vision book
about the history of film scores. Autographs will also be available for
the Marco Polo CDs of King Kong, House of Frankenstein, The Cat People
and more. The event is being sponsored by Marco Polo, Billboard Publications
and the Alex Film Society. The store is located at 851 N San Fernando Rd,
Burbank CA 91502; ph: 818-295-6905.
Books
Leonard Maltin's The Great American Broadcast: A Celebration of Radio's
Golden Age will be published in trade paperback by NAL/New American
Library on November 1 ($17.95). One chapter covers music on radio in particular
for which Maltin has interviewed Jerry Goldsmith, Billy May, the late Frank
De Vol, and a number of colleagues of Bernard Herrmann. Film music had
a big crossover with radio music of the 1940s and '50s (Herrmann in particular
wrote a great deal of radio music) and this book promises relevatory material
plus never-before-seen stills.
The new book about the professional life of Jay Ward, The Moose that
Roared, has some material pertaining to FSM's favorite underappreciated
composer we always mention -- Jerry Fielding. Apparently Fielding was bandmaster
at several events for the Bullwinkle show in the early 1960s.
Concert
The day after next Valentine's Day, take your honey to a concert of
obsessive, crazy music by the legendary Bernard Herrmann. Actually this
concert is devoted to some of Herrmann's non-film work. How cool!
February 15, 2001
Bernard Herrmann: More Than The Movies
Eos Orchestra
Jonathan Sheffer, Conductor
Ethical Culture Society, Auditorium
2 West 64th Street
New York, NY 10023-7104
Bernard Herrmann: More Than The Movies launches the 2001 season
on February 15, honoring Mr. Herrmann. Eos will re-create and perform some
of Herrmann's experimental radio works for narrator and orchestra, Melodrams,
as well as chamber music and orchestral works from before and during his
Hollywood career. Schoenberg's Accompaniment to a Film Scene opens a program
that pairs Herrmann's early Sinfonietta with the chilling Suite from Psycho
and the New York premiere of excerpts from his opera Wuthering Heights,
featuring baritone Nathan Gunn.
Beginning his career in New York, Herrmann was an avid member of
new music circles, forming a chamber orchestra in order to pursue a conducting
career. His early pieces in the manner of Schoenberg matured as he worked
in radio and then Hollywood, and his ambition remained high, even as his
film music eclipsed all his other efforts. In the end, he became the most
Singular composer in the history of movies, composing motion picture scores
for such classics as Citizen Kane, Vertigo and Taxi Driver.
There will be a pre-concert chamber music performance as well as
a symposium with music historian and publisher John Waxman. Mr. Waxman's
father, Franz Waxman, was a prolific film composer and Herrmann's contemporary.
All concerts take place at 8pm at the Society for Ethical Culture
Auditorium, 2 West 64th Street at Central Park West. ALL SEATS ARE RESERVED.
Senior and student discounts are available. The public may obtain additional
information, and may purchase subscription series or individual tickets
by calling the Eos office at (212) 691-6415.
Soundtracking UK
Soundtracking 2000 is a three-day celebration of pop music in film taking
place at the Showroom Cinema in Sheffield, England on November 24, 25,
26. There will be screenings galore -- Repo Man, Shaft, Taxi Driver, The
Ipcress File and more, but keep in mind this is about POP music in films,
not symphonic scoring as most soundtrack fans like. There will also be
panels and lectures, including a discussion with Simon Boswell. For more
info contact SHOWROOM, 7 Paternoster Row, Sheffield S1 2BX tel: ++0114
276 3534 fax: ++0114 2493204; www.showroom.org.uk.
Links
For a review of the recent Hans Zimmer concert in Ghent, Belgium by
Stefan Kusch , see http://www.Moviespotlight.de
and follow the Zimmer link. By the way, the concert was recorded for CD
release on Decca -- when, we don't know.
Visit John Williams Central for an analysis by John Takis of John Williams's
score to Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom: http://worldzone.net/music/johnwilliams/indymusic/indy2/analysis.htm
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