Film Score Friday 1/5/01

Silva Screen's upcoming Jerome Moross collection (newly recorded) will now be a 2CD set available this spring. No word yet on the films represented.

The 43rd Annual GRAMMY Nominees have been announced. These are for recordings released during the eligibility year October 1, 1999 through September 30, 2000, so they do not correspond exactly to the nomination period of the Oscars. The soundtrack-related nominees are below:

Category 73

Best Compilation Soundtrack Album For A Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media

Award to the Artist(s) and/or Producer(s) of a majority of the tracks on the album, or to the individual(s) actively responsible for the concept and musical direction and for the selection of artists, songs and producers, as applicable. Albums only.

1. Almost Famous
Various Artists
[DreamWorks Records]

2. Fantasia 2000
James Levine Conducting The Chicago Symphony Orchestra
[Walt Disney Records]

3. High Fidelity
Various Artists
[Hollywood Records]

4. Magnolia
Aimee Mann
[Reprise Records]

5. The Sopranos
Various Artists
[Sony Music Soundtrax/Columbia Records]

Best Score Soundtrack Album For A Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media

Award to Composer(s) for an original composition (not an adaptation) written specifically for a motion picture, television or other visual media.

1. American Beauty
Thomas Newman, composer
[DreamWorks Records]

2. The Cider House Rules
Rachel Portman, composer
[Sony Classical]

3. Gladiator
Lisa Gerrard & Hans Zimmer, composers
[Decca Records]

4. Magnolia
Jon Brion, composer
[Reprise Records]

5. Toy Story 2
Randy Newman, composer
[Walt Disney Records]

Best Song Written For A Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media.

A Songwriter(s) award. This category is for a song (melody & lyrics) written specifically for a motion picture, television or other visual media, and commercially released on a recording for the first time during the Eligibility Year. (Artist names appear in parentheses.) Singles or Tracks only.

1. The Great Beyond (From Man On The Moon)
Peter Buck, Mike Mills & Michael Stipe, songwriters
(R.E.M.)
[Warner Bros. Records; Publisher: Temporary Music]

2. Independent Women Part I (From Charlie's Angels)
Samuel Barnes, BeyoncÈ Knowles, Jean Claude
Olivier & Corey Rooney, songwriters (Destiny's Child)
[Columbia/Sony Music Soundtrax; Publishers: Enot
Pub./Sony ATV Tunes LLC, Sony ATV/Cori Tiffani Pub., BeyoncÈ Pub.]

3. Save Me (From Magnolia)
Aimee Mann, songwriter (Aimee Mann)
[Reprise Records; Publisher: Aimee Mann]

4. Things Have Changed (From Wonder Boys)
Bob Dylan, songwriter (Bob Dylan)
[Columbia/Sony Music Soundtrax; Publisher: Special Rider Music]

5. When She Loved Me (From Toy Story 2)
Randy Newman, songwriter (Sarah McLachlan)
[Walt Disney Records; Publisher: Walt Disney Music Co.]

Category 76

Best Instrumental Composition

A Composer's Award for an original composition (not an adaptation) with or without lyrics, first released on a recording during the Eligibility Year. (Artist names appear in parentheses.) Singles or Tracks only.

1. The Egg Travels
James Newton Howard, composer (James Newton Howard)
Track from: Dinosaur - Soundtrack
[Walt Disney Records; Publisher: Walt Disney Music]

2. Round Robin
Paul McCandless, composer (Oregon With The
Moscow Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra)
Track from: Oregon In Moscow
[Intuition Music; Publisher: Bocal Music]

3. Sing, Sang, Sung
Gordon Goodwin, composer (Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band)
Track from: Swingin' For The Fences
[Silverline; Publisher: Wingood Music]

4. The Templars
Ralph Towner, composer (Oregon With The Moscow
Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra)
Track from: Oregon In Moscow
[Intuition Music; Publisher: Distant Hills Music]

5. Theme From Angela's Ashes
John Williams, composer (John Williams)
Track from: Angela's Ashes - Music From The Motion Picture
[Sony Classical/Sony Music Soundtrax; Publisher: Ensign Music Corp. &
Songs Of Universal Inc.]

Just got this notice for a Herrmann day taking place tomorrow (Saturday) in Germany:

From: Stefan Kusch <505@gmx.de>

For the second time the METROPOL theater (Adress below) is presenting a Bernard Herrmann session including a workshop with filmmusic-composer BENJAMIN BARTLETT, who was responsible for the multipart BBC-TV show "DINOSAURS". During the whole day, Herrmanns movie-scores are discussed and analysed.

Besides many film-presentations of Herrmann, we will see the full movies "Sindbads Seven Voyages" and "the Naked and the Dead". And that for a fee nearly unbelievable. Approx. 20,-DM (10,-$) is muuch to cheap for the opportunity to ask a real filmmusic composer all the questions you ever wanted to ask.

The event starts @ 11.00 a.m. this Saturday, January 6th
@ 15.00h   "Sindbads 7 voyages"
@  23.30    "The Naked and the Dead"

Between the movies you can talk with composer B.Bartlett and of course with all the filmmusic fans who are smart enough not to miss this event. I just can tell you that the first event some weeks ago was very interesting and included the movies "Sinuhe the Egypt" and a DVD Version to Taxi-Driver (first time on german cinema-screen in stereo)

METROPOL Theater
Brunnenstr 20
Duesseldorf, NRW
Germany
+49-211 349709

for a map-description don't hesitate to contact me. It is not far away from the trains mainstation (Hbf).

Stefan Kusch
www.moviespotlight.de
www.filmuniversum.de

From: "Wilson Maffetano"<wilfemaff@sti.com.br>

I still didn't see anyone mentioning it, but have you discovered the secret bonus track in the new Varese "Total Recall" CD?

Some 30 seconds after the last track we can hear the Recall company theme used in the commercial inside the movie...

My compliments for reactivating your Poll!

From: Jeremy Moniz, DeviantMan@aol.com

In response to the Madding Crowd release from Chapter III, it's too bad  they didn't check with the previous CD issue of this score.  As a budget  release of this score made about seven years ago by Sony Music Special  Product has a total running time of 47:34, it includes some outtakes and  supplemental material.  It seems that Chapter III isn't doing their homework  as they reissue old soundtracks.

The latest issue of "The Perfect Vision" (January/February 2001) has an interview with Woody Allen that might be of some interest to film music fans.

A pretty substantial portion of the discussion is devoted to Woody's use of music in his films, including reasons as to why he doesn't like using a composer to score his films.

Randy Salas has been writing about film music for the Star Tribune in the Twin Cities area. He recently reviewed our Batman CD:

http://www.startribune.com/viewers/qview/cgi/qview.cgi?template=free_article&slug=trai22

But that's not all! Here's an article and sidebar by one of Randy's colleagues about Minneapolis people in film scoring of interest:

http://webserv0.startribune.com:80/stOnLine/cgi-bin/article?thisSlug=MOVENT

http://webserv0.startribune.com:80/stOnLine/cgi-bin/article?thisSlug=MOVBAR