Film Score Friday 9/21/01
by Lukas Kendall
Jerry Goldsmith promptly penned a short theme in memory of the victims
of the recent terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, "September
11, 2001." The two-minute theme is reportedly adapted from his upcoming
score to The Last Castle and has been premiered at the Hollywood
Bowl by John Mauceri and the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra.
Goldsmith will be in attendence at tonight's Bowl "movie night" concert
where a suite from Star Trek: The Motion Picture will be performed
to footage from the new director's edition of the film, due shortly on
video and DVD. For complete details: http://www.hollywoodbowl.org/series/performance_detail.cfm?id=561&back=%2Findex%2Ecfm.
Store Working
We had a bug with the check-out mechanism of the FSM
store in the middle of this week. (Basically, in correcting one bug
we inadvertently knocked out the whole system.) But it's back now and all
our fantastic CDs and books and magazines are yours to be ordered! Thanks.
A Swell Guy
Actor Kevin Spacey has purchased the Oscar presented to composer George
Stoll for his score to Anchors Aweigh (1945). He bought it anonymously
at an auction for $156,875 so as to return the statue to the Academy.
Kubrick Music
Reader Owain Wilson asked last week what the music is for the montage
at the end of the new documentary, Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures.
The answer, from several people who kindly wrote in: It is an orchestral
arrangement of "Women of Ireland" which was prepared and recorded for a
Silva Screen compilation, Dr. Strangelove: Music From the Films of Stanley
Kubrick. The original theme was used in Barry Lyndon and was recorded by
The Chieftains.
North of the Net
A new website has opened up dedicated to Alex North, on the occasion
of the tenth anniversary of his passing: http://www.alexnorthmusic.com.
German Workshop
I'll let the Professor do the talking on this one:
From: "Prof. Lensing" <joerg.lensing@fh-dortmund.de>
There will be a workshop about european filmmusic in the
international filmschool in Colgne / Germany from the 1st to the 4th of
november. The speakers are the composers J.U.Lensing, N.J.Schneider and
Michel Chion!
Seminar der internationalen Filmschule Köln
Europaische Filmmusik
1.11.2001
J.U.Lensing: Filmmusik für künstlerische und dokumentarische
Filme
02.-03.11.2001
Enjott Schneider: Dramaturgie und Entstehungsphasen einer Spielfilmmusik
04.11.2001
Michel Chion: Filmmusik - historische und kulturelle Praxis
Ziel des Programms ist, einen Einblick in die gegenwartige praktische
Arbeit zu Filmmusik fur Dokumentarfilme, Spielfilme und TV zu erlangen.
Es gibt einen theoretischen Diskurs zum Verhaltnis zwischen amerikanischer
und europaischer Filmmusik. Auch werden rechtliche Fragen erortert und
Diskussionen geführt. Weitere Details konnen Sie den Bewerbungsunterlagen
entnehmen.
further informations / weitere Informationen:
http://www.filmschule.de/templates/program.php3?cs=program&category_id=0&subcategory_id=8
Knight Rider
www.soundtrack.net has loaded
their latest batch of reviews including one of a new promotional CD of
Knight Rider music by Don Peake (the original 1980s TV show). Kitt,
I need you! By the way, there is one episode of Knight Rider --
it might have been the first one after the pilot -- with music by the late
Morton Stevens which is very orchestral and completely different from the
more pop-percussion style Peake used. That was back when Kitt's voice corresponded
to a flashing red rectangle and not the three red stripes. Yeah.
Mail Bag
From: al_foster@t-online.de (Al Foster)
Oh God, please don't hate me. I screwed this one up completely
when I wrote your FSM Daily MISTS OF AVALON review had already been published
in the fall 2000 edition of SOUNDTRACK!. Of course it was the newest edition
of FSM - I had the two magazines lying beside each other and... you know...
Sorry again, AF!
Al, I'll do you one better. I don't even know what you're talking
about!
Kitt! Kitt!
Have a nice weekend!
MailBag@filmscoremonthly.com
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