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zooba, I think you should already know this - being such a Goldsmith fan.
In the FSM thread on Goldsmith chronology, it can be seen what Goldsmith worked on during 1980:
1980
• Masada (April 15 through 21)
• Inchon (July; recorded in Italy)
• Final Conflict (September)
I also suspect that The Salamander could have been recorded in the summer of '80 in Italy, though it may have been done during the '80/'81 winter.
Since Sphinx was released in February of 1981, its principal filming must have taken place during months within 1980 (maybe even earlier?) and we can see Goldsmith was erstwhile occupied from Spring thru Autumn of '80 to commit himself to scoring Sphinx.
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... also, as one movie reviewer/critic said: Sphinx stinks. 
Goldsmith already inherited the stinker Inchon from John Williams, right?
Did you really want Goldsmith to be overloaded with yet another smelly flic, eh?
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Much as I like Goldsmith, I can't imagine a better score for NICHOLAS AND ALEXANDRA than what Richard Rodney Bennett composed. It captures the grand yet tragic tone of the film perfectly.
Yes, in all honesty, I agree. Goldsmith is awesome but I wouldn't trade Bennett's score for anything.
And actually, it was not scheduling that kept Goldsmith off N&A, but Sam Spiegel, who wanted a "bigger name". He offered the film to Leonard Bernstein, who turned it down, but Bernstein recommended Bennett.
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rmd007
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Much as I like Goldsmith, I can't imagine a better score for NICHOLAS AND ALEXANDRA than what Richard Rodney Bennett composed. It captures the grand yet tragic tone of the film perfectly.
Yes, in all honesty, I agree. Goldsmith is awesome but I wouldn't trade Bennett's score for anything.
And actually, it was not scheduling that kept Goldsmith off N&A, but Sam Spiegel, who wanted a "bigger name". He offered the film to Leonard Bernstein, who turned it down, but Bernstein recommended Bennett.
Sorry to change the actual subject, but is is my imagination or has there ever been a cd release of Nicholas and Alexandra?
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I bring up the lack of legit CD--any CD--for Nicholas and Alexandra every once in a while. So I might as well again. The last time was in a Quincy Jones thread I started about the few soundtrack lps he did that were not on CD (For Love of Ivy, The Hot Rock, Bob and Carol, etc, and Cactus Flower.) The last two were on Bell Records, which was also Nicholas and Alexandra's label. Bell also put out a Legrand collection (Brian's Song). Is there some issue with albums on Bell Records?
Lewis did a good job on Sphinx. Lewis also was the first composer not named John Barry to score a Bryan Forbes film (The Madwoman of Chaillot) after 5 films with Barry.
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I've seen two different explanations.
The first being he was busy with "The Final Conflict", however, the second was issues he had with the script. I think it's probably a combo: he hated the script and used the excuse of scoring the other film to turn "Sphinx" down.
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