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Hello! I thought some of you may be interested in this new film music podcast called "Settling The Score". They discuss scores and their effectiveness for the given film. They are starting with analyzing the AFI top 25 Film Scores list.
I have very much enjoyed it so far 3 eps in - even though they didn't like The Mission nearly as much as I did! Still, their take and criticisms were well thought out and quite interesting.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/settling-the-score/id1293855553?mt=2
Enjoy! (it's also on stitcher if you don't do iTunes)
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Hello! I thought some of you may be interested in this new film music podcast called "Settling The Score". They discuss scores and their effectiveness for the given film. They are starting with analyzing the AFI top 25 Film Scores list.
I have very much enjoyed it so far 3 eps in - even though they didn't like The Mission nearly as much as I did! Still, their take and criticisms were well thought out and quite interesting.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/settling-the-score/id1293855553?mt=2
Enjoy! (it's also on stitcher if you don't do iTunes)
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Hello! I thought some of you may be interested in this new film music podcast called "Settling The Score". They discuss scores and their effectiveness for the given film. They are starting with analyzing the AFI top 25 Film Scores list.
I have very much enjoyed it so far 3 eps in - even though they didn't like The Mission nearly as much as I did! Still, their take and criticisms were well thought out and quite interesting.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/settling-the-score/id1293855553?mt=2
Enjoy! (it's also on stitcher if you don't do iTunes)
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I'm sorry, but these two are TOTALLY off base when it comes to the "How The West Was Won" score. It's quite obvious that they never saw this film in 1962 or 1963 in the original 3-projector Cinerama 6-track stereophonic presentation. They saw it on a television screen more that a handful of decades later, and are judging the film AND the score from their 2017 armchairs. They make so many inane and pretentious statements such as the title theme is not memorable and that other themes are not really recognizable, the score is a stitch-together of Copland's ballet music, that Debbie Reynolds' songs are an embarrassment, that Ken Darby's choral arrangements are inappropriate, that Alfred Newman was not really up to the task (unlike Morricone in The Good, The Bad And The Ugly), that Newman's score "doesn't have that marriage between visuals and music that is memorable in itself," and so on.
I wanted to throw up! Were they serious? Give me a break!
I wonder what a music critic in 1962 would have thought if they were presented with any film and score from 60-odd years in the future. Every film and every film score has to be judged FIRST from the historical perspective of its own time!
HTWWW's title theme is one of the most memorable in film music history, and Silvestri's tribute to it in Back To The Future III (which was quoted in the podcast) or Silvestri's direct quote of the title theme at the very beginning of "Romancing The Stone" score PROVES IT!
And of course any American composer's Western score in the 60's (The Big Country, The Magnificent Seven, HTWWW) would be built upon Copland's already well-established Americana style (hell, even Tiomkin's "Casino Dance" from 1946 Duel In The Sun owes a bow to Copland's El Salon Mexico and Danzon Cubano), just as any 19th or 20th century European composer would have built upon the musical foundation provided by Bach, Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven.
Debbie Reynolds' songs were quite understandable to film audiences in a decade which saw many 1960s musicals celebrate the genre first generated in the post-war era, including Reynolds' own "Singing In The Rain" and her subsequent "The Unsinkable Molly Brown."
Alfred Newman and Ken Darby considered their collaboration in HTWWW the most jubilant experience in their careers, a triumph of its time!
It truly remains one of the most memorable scores from the 1960s and rightly deserves to be in AFI's top 25 film scores of all time.
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