Scaramouche and The Green Berets CDs
Film Score Monthly's new limited edition CDs feature excellent symphonic
scores by two high-profile composers:
Silver
Age Classics: THE GREEN BERETS
The Green Berets (1968) was the first major Hollywood production
to address the Vietnam War, starring John Wayne as the leader of an elite
squadron of American troops. The film was based on the semi-factual book
by Robin Moore and is still controversial today for its staunchly pro-war
attitude.
Scoring The Green Berets was a legendary composer of Hollywood's Golden
Age: Miklos Rozsa. Rozsa treated the film as "an eastern" (in his words),
writing bold melodies and stirring suspense in its own inimitible style.
He enlisted a variety of Asian instruments to capture the local color,
but by and large the score is straight-ahead symphonic and Rozsa "all the
way!"
FSM's premiere CD of The Green Berets features the complete score
in stereo, including the recording of Barry Sadler's "Ballad of the Green
Berets" made for the main and end credits. (The "Ballad" was selected prior
to Rozsa's involvement, but the composer did not use it at all in his interior
score.)
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Golden
Age Classics: SCARAMOUCHE
Scaramouche (1952) was the last major Hollywood adaptation of
a story by Rafael Sabatini, the early 20th century novelist responsible
for some of the greatest adventures ever filmed (and scored), including
Captain Blood and The Sea Hawk. The film is a classic swashbuckler
starring Stewart Granger, Eleanor Parker and Janet Leigh in pre-revolutionary
France.
Scoring Scaramouche was a Golden Age stalwart seldom represented
on CD: Victor Young. Young (1900-1956) was a prolific composer with a particular
gift for melody and he delivered an armful of them for Scaramouche.
The score also features galloping action, moody suspense, heroic fanfares
and charming, Renaissance-styled theater music.
Although originally recorded in stereo, Scaramouche is presented
in complete form in the best possible monaural sound, as the stereo reels
were discarded in the 1960s. Bonus tracks of alternate and unused cues
follow the main program.
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NOTE: As of October 8, 2002, we have Scaramouche in stock.
However, we will not have The Green Berets until next Thursday,
October 17, 2002. (It is presently the busiest time of year for pressing
plants.) We will hold any orders including The Green Berets until
such time as we have it in stock. Thank you for your kind attention.
--Lukas Kendall
MailBag@filmscoremonthly.com
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