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Randall D. Larson anyone?
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I think my favorites are Schweiger and Bond. I like everyone else, but those two I really enjoy. I only WISH I could write as well as them.
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I've only written liner notes for two releases but I hope to write many, many more. I'm about to embark on a third assignment, title and release date to be announced by the label.
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I always liked John Takis, especially his work on the Laurence Rosenthal C.D.s (Intrada's version of "The Miracle Worker" and the Varese Sarabande Club edition of "Return Of A Man Called Horse"). We need more people to write the inlay notes. And Bruce Kimmel says it's unnecessary to include notes on the score in C.D.s. Not so! We need the information.
Well, not exactly. I don't care for track by track analysis. I am not so presumptuous as to tell readers what they're hearing. They have perfectly good ears and don't need to read "the fluttery flutes enter at bar eight, dance a jig, and then the french horns come in at bar twelve and knock the flutes for a loop." Not my thing, sorry. I understand there are those who love that sort of thing but I'm just not one of them. Nor are any of the folks who occasionally write for us.
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I don't care for track by track analysis. I am not so presumptuous as to tell readers what they're hearing. They have perfectly good ears and don't need to read "the fluttery flutes enter at bar eight, dance a jig, and then the french horns come in at bar twelve and knock the flutes for a loop." Not my thing, sorry.
Agreed, but if the listener encounters a musically unmotivated outburst at 1:30 and then the piece goes off in a seemingly unrelated direction, it would be useful to provide some indication of what's going on and why the composer responded in such fashion. This sort of thing is common in film music.
Or, one could watch the film and it would probably be blatantly obvious.  And since the liner notes writers rarely know why a composer did anything, since most do not have access to the composers (I suppose sometimes they do, but not for any real golden age releases), it's all guess work anyway, unless they're telling you, "The shrieking strings come in at bar 52 because Marion Crane is being stabbed repeatedly in the shower." I just don't have any need to be told that
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