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LOG IN Forgot Login? Register General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board Search Terms:  Search Within:  topics posts since 2019 2018 posts 2017 posts 2016 posts 2015 posts 2014 posts 2013 posts 2012 posts 2011 posts 2010 posts 2009 posts 2008 posts 2007 posts 2006 posts 2005 posts 2004 posts 2003 posts 2002 posts 2001 posts 2000 posts users  search tips  You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12      General Discussion: NEW LA LA LAND: The Egyptian (Newman & Herrmann)    FIRST   PRIOR   1 2 3 4    NEXT   LAST   Last Post   Posted:   Mar 19, 2015 - 12:09 AM     By:   John B. Archibald   (Member) That booklet looks incredible!    Posted:   Mar 19, 2015 - 12:35 AM     By:   Preston Neal Jones   (Member) Yes, John, that's why I said "well over" a decade, not knowing the exact number of years. And yes. it wouldn't surprise me if Decca did do an audio cassette, but apparently Varese did one, as was their wont in those days.    Posted:   Mar 19, 2015 - 12:37 AM     By:   Dana Wilcox   (Member) I'll be close to the front of the line to order this latest edition of what is among my four or five all-time favorite film scores. Although I'm ecstatic to have lived long enough to enjoy such a complete and so sonically solid an album of this music, I nevertheless wish that Varese still had in print their CD of the original Decca LP. That Newman arrangement/performance of a drastically abridged EGYPTIAN remains a peerless listening experience in its own right. As an LP, it stayed a remarkable well-over-a-decade in the Schwann catalog, and IMHO should never be allowed to go out of print. It stayed longer than that. I was seeing it in record stores for a good 20 years after its initial release. I even think there was a cassette release. Actually, though it was probably technically out of print, I picked one up within the past 5 years or so, through that SAE Varese clearance sale they've had going on forever. It's down to a few titles now, but for quite a while there were many early Varese CDs still available.    Posted:   Mar 19, 2015 - 12:45 AM     By:   Dana Wilcox   (Member) That booklet looks incredible! It looks like it'll be nearly as gorgeous as the SAE "Captain From Castille" release a few years back. I don't know whatever happened to Charles Johnston, who did the graphic design for that set, but it pretty much wins the prize for stunning to look at. I think I would have had to buy it even if I didn't like the music. That's sort of how I feel about the "Egyptian" pictures above -- going to have to own that even if there's nothing on the discs.    Posted:   Mar 19, 2015 - 5:11 AM     By:   joec   (Member) Yes, John, that's why I said "well over" a decade, not knowing the exact number of years. And yes. it wouldn't surprise me if Decca did do an audio cassette, but apparently Varese did one, as was their wont in those days. Decca/m ca did issue a cassette, I had a copy.    Posted:   Mar 19, 2015 - 5:21 AM     By:   Stephen Woolston   (Member) I have to say, that is a BEAUTIFUL looking CD. I wasn't inclined to double dip, but that gorgeous artwork makes it very, very temping indeed.    Posted:   Mar 19, 2015 - 6:35 AM     By:   Spymaster   (Member) I must say I'm tempted - very tempted - to buy this again purely for the Jim Titus art. This is a thing of beauty.    Posted:   Mar 19, 2015 - 7:50 AM     By:   Joe Caps   (Member) One change I hope for - and probably won't get. Missing from the Varese is a missing vocal when Nefer goes to Sinuhe late in the film. She has a disease and seeks treatment. this DOES exist. The vocal is exactly the same vocal used in the lotus pool scene. the vocal was recorded only once, and Herrmann recorded the different orchestral parts over the one vocal. I love the new cover and the booklet looks very god. Ordered !!!    Posted:   Mar 19, 2015 - 8:35 AM     By:   zachip   (Member) the booklet looks thick. how many pages?    Posted:   Mar 19, 2015 - 10:07 AM     By:   PFK   (Member) I'll be close to the front of the line to order this latest edition of what is among my four or five all-time favorite film scores. Although I'm ecstatic to have lived long enough to enjoy such a complete and so sonically solid an album of this music, I nevertheless wish that Varese still had in print their CD of the original Decca LP. That Newman arrangement/performance of a drastically abridged EGYPTIAN remains a peerless listening experience in its own right. As an LP, it stayed a remarkable well-over-a-decade in the Schwann catalog, and IMHO should never be allowed to go out of print. It stayed longer than that. I was seeing it in record stores for a good 20 years after its initial release. I even think there was a cassette release. I was thinking the same thing John. Both The Egyptian and The Robe were in various Boston record stores about 1975, over 20 years! I often mentioned this to a few soundtrack fans and they said it was in their area of the USA too. I think it could still be ordered too. An amazing run! ...... we have to refresh Preston's memory!    Posted:   Mar 19, 2015 - 11:12 AM     By:   Joe Caps   (Member) there are quite a few soundtrack musicals that were in print forever - mostly Rodgers and Hammerstein. Of background scores, not that many. the Robe, The Egyptian, and also Picnic. Also Ben Hur, The Big Country. BTW- The main theme of the film, the theme for Sinuhe the Egyptian is written by Alfred Newman. Bernard Herrmann had earlier written a theme that was not used. He later used it as the Baghdad theme in 7th Voyage of Sinbad.    Posted:   Mar 19, 2015 - 11:24 AM     By:   MOsdtks   (Member) Like the cover but alas I just can't order yet ANOTHER version of this score. God bless and enjoy for those who want it. How bout this for a wild weird revolutionary idea? Put out unreleased Alfred Newman.    Posted:   Mar 19, 2015 - 12:06 PM     By:   Preston Neal Jones   (Member) Hope you liked O. HENRY'S FULL HOUSE on Kritzerland, MOsdtks! For years and years that was one of my own most-hoped-for unreleased Newmans. (To say nothing of its companion piece, Mockridge's LUCK OF THE IRISH.)    Posted:   Mar 19, 2015 - 12:08 PM     By:   Preston Neal Jones   (Member) Peter, you can smiley-face all you want, but you're not refreshing my memory, you're merely repeating it! My own smiley face:    Posted:   Mar 19, 2015 - 12:10 PM     By:   eriknelson   (Member) I missed out on the Varese, so this is a must buy to obtain a definitive version. I already have the original LP, the FSM release and the excerpts in the Herrmann box. This should finally do it.    Posted:   Mar 19, 2015 - 12:20 PM     By:   Carcosa2004   (Member) Awesome packaging! Ordered as soon as its available...    Posted:   Mar 19, 2015 - 1:22 PM     By:   rickO   (Member) The packaging is gorgeous on this set! It beats the Varese cover by a mile. Also the notes seem to be the best yet ... I always thought the Varese Deluxe skimped on their liners. I am not sure if I will be getting this, however. I think I might save up for He Man. -Rick O.    Posted:   Mar 19, 2015 - 1:36 PM     By:   shureman   (Member) One change I hope for - and probably won't get. Missing from the Varese is a missing vocal when Nefer goes to Sinuhe late in the film. She has a disease and seeks treatment. this DOES exist. The vocal is exactly the same vocal used in the lotus pool scene. the vocal was recorded only once, and Herrmann recorded the different orchestral parts over the one vocal. I love the new cover and the booklet looks very god. Ordered !!! Speaking of the lotus pool sequence, I guess the haunting guitar music, accompanying the female soloist and which is so prevalent in the old Decca recording, has again been suppressed almost inaudibly as it was in the Varese 2-CD set...    Posted:   Mar 19, 2015 - 2:44 PM     By:   PFK   (Member) Peter, you can smiley-face all you want, but you're not refreshing my memory, you're merely repeating it! My own smiley face: Good to know Preston! ........ oops, I mean    Posted:   Mar 19, 2015 - 5:19 PM     By:   cody1949   (Member) Like the cover but alas I just can't order yet ANOTHER version of this score. God bless and enjoy for those who want it. How bout this for a wild weird revolutionary idea? Put out unreleased Alfred Newman. Well, I am going to buy THE EGYPTIAN,but your other remark has total merit. An Alfred Newman box set with many of his shorter scores for 20CF would be most welcomed by me and many others. If MV wants to put a premium price on such a box set to guarantee Lalaland wouldn't lose any money on it, it's OK with me. We need more vintage Newman as well as NEVADA SMITH from Paramount.     General Discussion: NEW LA LA LAND: The Egyptian (Newman & Herrmann)    << < 1 2 3 4  > >>  Go to page:  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12   First Post    General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

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