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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      General Discussion: Becoming Colette (John Scott)   Last Post   Posted:   Jan 10, 2015 - 2:14 PM     By:   Hurdy Gurdy   (Member) I didn't really take to this score when I first played it. I thought the Main Theme was an existing classical piece (don't ask me why, but it sounded over familiar the minute I heard it) and a lot of the running time is taken up by various source/dance cues. After a few more listens, the Main Theme revealed itself as a typical John Scott styled composition (meaning it's both beautiful and brilliant). This CD is now just another (in a long line) of John Scott scores that amaze and excite me with their stamp of quality and expertise. Has this fella written a score without interest or worth? Please share your thoughts on this music.    Posted:   Jan 10, 2015 - 3:05 PM     By:   bobbengan   (Member) Yes! This one is fantastic! Such a rich musical experience. I see this score as being for Scott what JANE EYRE was for John Williams or LADY CAROLINE LAMB was for Richard Rodney Bennett: A richly-orchestrated, classically-refined period score with a diverse palette and ultimately very tragic melodramatic air (all three are also very unabashedly "English" in their musical language too, of course). It's wonderful stuff, with certain portions feeling almost balletic. This one would hold up well in a concert hall setting for sure. Film appears to be incredibly obscure. Only ONE review on IMDB. How do films this little-known and seemingly unheard of afford scores like this...? Thanks Kev for continuing to bring up Scott and all his wonderful contributions to film music!    Posted:   Jan 14, 2016 - 3:18 PM     By:   bobbengan   (Member) Bumping this, because it's playing right now in my iTunes and it's just so gorgeous. Such a rich composition, belonging in the same league as the aforementioned scores and more than worthy of the concert hall. I too could have done without the source-like polkas that pop up in the first third of the album, but having programmed those out, I'm left with a 45 minute suite of gorgeous, romantic, darkly tragic and decadently-orchestrated music of the highest quality. "Overture", "Becoming Colette" and "Epilogue" alone are worth the price of admission, never mind the phenomenal music elsewhere on album. Interesting to note that Tim Simonec is credited with orchestrating exactly one cue, the fantastic "For the Love of Willy", which features some absolutely wonderful guitar playing by Gregg Nestor. Get this one, you won't regret it.    Posted:   Jan 14, 2016 - 3:56 PM     By:   JohnnyG   (Member) Ah, how I envy you, Kevin - you're discovering John Scott!... What a joy that discovery was for me back in the '90s!    Posted:   Feb 5, 2016 - 10:11 PM     By:   RM Eastman   (Member) Just listened to this John Scott score for the first time, it is melodic and beautiful with that Scott richness.    Posted:   Feb 5, 2016 - 10:13 PM     By:   RM Eastman   (Member) Just listened to this John Scott score for the first time, it is melodic and beautiful with that Scott richness.     General Discussion: Becoming Colette (John Scott)    < 1  >   Go to page:  1   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

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