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One simple question: Does the complete score exist? If not, WHY NOT!? It's GREAT!!
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One simple question: Does the complete score exist? If not, WHY NOT!? It's GREAT!!
Rights are a complete mess
Sorry
MV
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Too bad. :-( This is a great score that shows another side to John Williams and just how versatile he is.
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Rights are a complete mess
That's better to hear than "no tapes survive" (ie. Dracula)! We'd heard for years that rights were a mess on stuff like Back to the Future and Heavy Metal. Sometimes these things can eventually be sorted out...
Yavar
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Yes, we know it's perfect -- for you. 
Yavar
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None of that was from the score -- it was all composed specifically for the suite.
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Nov 3, 2014 - 10:02 PM
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jonnyquest
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I'm sure this has been asked and answered before, but are the two instrumental sections of the 18-minute narrated suite that aren't on the CDs part of the original soundtrack? Or are they pieces Williams wrote later for the suite?
Specifically I mean the instrumental material that comes immediately after the narrator says: "The first car in town" and the horse race music near the end.
It's already been noted that Williams composed those 2 pieces just for the Suite, but since the Suite's "Horse Race Scherzo" is one of the most exhilarating things he ever wrote, (and that's saying a lot!) and the "First Car In Town" is so delightful, I "extracted" them for stand alone listening, using Audacity.
If you're good with that sort of thing, it's pretty easy to do. Both of those passages start after a tiny pause in the narration so they begin very cleanly. Then you can fade them out or do some other trickery to give them proper conclusions.
Like everyone else on this thread, I love "The Reivers", and cherish it in both its exisiting LP presentation as well as the suite with narration. And since most of us have pipe-dreamed in this manner - my personal "Spartacus" presentation would include the original LP, the complete film version (I agree that the "Slow-Motion" horse race is a grail, and an amazing contrast to the Suite approach), stand-alone recordings of the Suite-Only tracks, and why not include the Suite with Narration too? Just a pipe-dream, folks, you don't need to start reminding me about rights issues with The Pops, etc.
As I often note, when it comes to the Thor Theory, I heartily agree that the original LPs are wonderful and should be preserved wherever possible. But for some of us, the desire to enjoy the film versions and extra goodies is no crime.
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I had a listen to some of this score, and it's a smile-bringer!
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