Does anyone know if there is any chance that we can see the complete original score for this animation film being released? I know that there are already some pieces reconstructed by J. Morgan and conducted by W. Stromberg in a compilation cd.
It's a marvellous score, and I think it would deserve a good release..
The Morgan/Stromberg CD is a good start. You can always just grab the score book from the Brandeis University archive. I imagine that for some films, this may be our only recourse.
Beautiful score. Hard to tell where the songs leave off and the score takes off...
Favorite moment, which is NOT on the Morgan/Stromberg re-recording: lovely song, "I Hear a Dream," sung by Gulliver in the moonlight on a hill overlooking the incoming sea, followed by a lovely orchestral interlude, as he places a model ship in the water of the harbor... Beautiful musical idyll.
I love the songs too, by Ralph Rainger and Leo Robin, as I recall, especially the 2 anthems, "Faithful," for the Lilliputians, and "Forever," for the Brobdingnagians, which Gulliver suggests being combined into a single anthem, "Faithful Forever," which is also lovely. As far as I know, this is the first time anything like this was ever don, and it has not ever been repeated.
When I was a very small child, we used to have a 78 set of the songs from GULLIVER'S TRAVELS, but we children foolishly broke the records. For years, I still had the empty record package, but, after some time, even that was lost to time.
And now, my friends, we know how certain items become very rare.
And, like many of you, I'd also love a recording of "MR. BUG GOES TO TOWN."
Though, of course, I'd prefer the music tracks to both....
Since they're from Paramount, and since a lot of things have surfaced from that studio, I wonder if they're still preserved somewhere. In this day and age, you never know....
When I was a very small child, we used to have a 78 set of the songs from GULLIVER'S TRAVELS, but we children foolishly broke the records. For years, I still had the empty record package, but, after some time, even that was lost to time.
When I was a very small child, we used to have a 78 set of the songs from GULLIVER'S TRAVELS, but we children foolishly broke the records. For years, I still had the empty record package, but, after some time, even that was lost to time.
Just wanted to bump this thread in case anyone knows anything.' Since we only have reconstructions of this score, it means that the master tapes have been lost?
