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Was the manuscript LATE DATE fully notated?
Or, was there jazz style notation for part of it, i.e. chord changes?
bruce
No scores exist....Leigh arranged everything "by ear" but then he is a Goldsmith expert. So modern scores and parts were completely notated
Amazing! !####!!!!!
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After Oh-Deeing on the twelve (count 'em, TWELVE) CDs I got from Santa and the Oriental Majesties, I felt the need to de-tox by watching the next in line from the upcoming Tadlow Bozza K Jerry G release - "The Bride Who Died Twice".
Solidly good episode, with a fine line of irony between the natural and the supernatural. Some lovely touches throughout, almost poetic (the doves flying etc). Directed by Ida Lupino. Murky tale of true love thwarted in a dodgy political state somewhere south of the border (of the US of A), with more than a hint of morbid Cormanesque Poe-esqe poetry, all is-she-dead-or-isn't-she WTF-ery. I loved it.
And what an absolutely GREEEEAAAT score by Jerry Goldsmith. I've insisted for forty years that JG's best period was from '64 to '79. I keep pushing that first date back nowadays. He was writing incredibly good stuff from the very start. "The Bride Who Died Twice" is as good as any subsequent music he did. We're south of the border here, and as James Fitz has already pointed out, there's more than a hint of HOUR OF THE GUN. Not only that I'd say. Every borderline (geddit?) western from RIO LOBO through 100 RIFLES and anything with a guitar in it. Naturally, it's not as expansive as the big-screen scores, but it's just as brilliant and again one of its strong points might be in its economy of means. I'd rate this score as "brilliant". I still find it hard to believe that this guy Goldsmith was firing on all cylinders (creatively, intellectually) for so long.
I can't remember what I have to watch next. Maybe I'll have a rest and go back to my Xmas prezzies.
Back on track, I think that this second volume is going to be even better than the first, based on the four out of six episodes/ scores I've watched/ heard.
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Jan 10, 2018 - 10:42 AM
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Goldsmith's score is a complete stand-out. With so many scenes without dialogue, the music very often takes centre stage, and it's terrific. Rather different from his other scores for the series, this is filled with low-end staccato piano (and also what sounds like prepared piano) and a myriad of percussion devices, from bongos (?) to strange clacking sounds. Immensely great. It reminded me a bit of some parts of CITY OF FEAR, but it also seemed to look ahead to some of the action/ suspense sequences from THE SATAN BUG.
Onya, the above is the middle section from my own little "review" of the episode "Late Date", which I posted here on December 17. I think you'd like it, but as far as I know it's the only one in that vein, so for a full CD it's only one out of six scores.
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Jan 10, 2018 - 11:46 AM
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Goldsmith's score is a complete stand-out. With so many scenes without dialogue, the music very often takes centre stage, and it's terrific. Rather different from his other scores for the series, this is filled with low-end staccato piano (and also what sounds like prepared piano) and a myriad of percussion devices, from bongos (?) to strange clacking sounds. Immensely great. It reminded me a bit of some parts of CITY OF FEAR, but it also seemed to look ahead to some of the action/ suspense sequences from THE SATAN BUG.
Onya, the above is the middle section from my own little "review" of the episode "Late Date", which I posted here on December 17. I think you'd like it, but as far as I know it's the only one in that vein, so for a full CD it's only one out of six scores.
The bongos are actually roto toms....the clacking sound is a vibraslap...
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Well, a put up or shut up moment could be a crowdfunding for a disc of re-recorded Stevens efforts.
Though I'm holding out for the original recordings.
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Since Goldsmith sells and sells well and Kickstarter campaign was a success, will you reconsider your decision James to drop your plans to re-record Legend?
James never had plans to re-record Legend, so how could he drop them? He's always said he considers the Silva expansion (which he helped produce) to be sufficient and hasn't shown any interest in the other missing cues. I doubt he's going to go for a Kickstarter on this...even Black Patch/Face of a Fugitive has a better chance. 
That said, if anyone ever does produce a new complete recording of Legend (especially if they find acoustic solutions for some of the more unpleasant synths) I will definitely buy it. Same goes for Under Fire.
Yavar
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Goldsmith actually does NOT sell that well!
I guess it's all relative when it comes to this sort of thing. I'm sure Goldsmith sells a lot better than Morton Stevens. Are you saying he sells less well than Rozsa or Tiomkin? Or is the final point that almost nobody sells well enough to justify the great expense of new recordings?
Yavar
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