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Some (or all) of you may remember from many years ago the brief series of BMG film score anthologies recorded overseas: Tiomkin, Waxman, Film Noir, Nosfersatu, etc. Until I finally located a rare copy of the CD titled MODERN TIMES, I dared to hope it was a new recording of that film's score, but of course it turned out to be an anthology of highlights from various Chaplin films. This new CD is a dream come true, the CD I wished the other one had been, and I couldn't be happier with it. As Haines says: "many listens," indeed.
Incidentally, a friend of mine who's been in Europe recently tells me that Mr. Brock has done another wonderful job recently, scoring Buster Keaton shorts which my friend saw in concert.
Brock's liner notes are another asset to the new MODERN TIMES album, though I wonder if perhaps he makes a slight error when he says that Chaplin wrote his own scores for all of his subsequent films. The one exception might be THE GREAT DICTATOR, on which Meredith Willson gets a major credit as Musical Director, indicating either that he wrote the score or that his contributions surpassed the "assistance" that Raksin had provided for MODERN TIMES. (As a matter of fact, Willson apparently had his own assistant on GREAT DICTATOR, Max Terr.)
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Ordered and thanks for posting about this some time ago! I would have missed this great release.
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No need to be sorry, Buss. Bravo! And, thanks.
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