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Apr 22, 2014 - 2:22 AM
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Bob DiMucci
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I came across this passage, the concluding paragraph of a short article entitled "Confessions of a Film Composer," written by Victor Young himself for a publication called Music Journal. The article was reprinted in the Winter 1956 issue of Film and TV Music. "By and large, Hollywood producers will come to intelligent terms with a composer's judgement, after considerable discussion. But it is always most productive to be given a completely free hand in one's work. I was delighted when the King Brothers recently turned over their fine film, The Brave One, to me, and simply said 'It's your baby now.' Set in Mexico, The Brave One gave me time and leeway to work in the Latin folk-idiom, which I'm particularly partial to. For the actual recording I was able to use the excellent 110-piece Munich Symphony Orchestra. The result is a film composition I find deeply satisfying, and one that I hope will enhance the pleasure of audiences everywhere."
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On Mar 10, 2014, Basil Wrathbone wrote (above): I think the sound of the Disques Cinemusique Brave One is atrocious. One of the worst botches of great music I've heard. Swamped in a horrible synthetic stereo reverb which is applied particularly badly. The effects through headphones wander all over the place and vary noticeably according to the levels of the music. I noticed, however, that two years earlier (in another thread), he wrote the following: Posted: Apr 12, 2012 - 8:21 PM By: Basil Wrathbone (Member) I just now compared my [Japanese] CD tracks of The Brave One with the audio samples of the new [Disques Cinemusique] one, and even with the low-quality mp3 clips, the sound of the new version is better. Fuller, less brittle-sounding and with more ambience. I also noted that one small digital artifact on my CD is absent from the same piece on the new clip, so if they are using the CD as a source they have apparently gone to the trouble of cleaning it up a bit. I'll be getting the new one for sure. Their previous Skinner release was excellent. I guess you can't always depend upon samples. By the way, I noticed that the VCI Blu-ray release of THE BRAVE ONE is listed as having an isolated music track (with effects, I believe), like earlier DVD and laserdisc issues.
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