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Hi,
This won't be news to all, but it was amazing for me at least to stumble across old newsletters published between 1944 and 1950, and which can be read on PDF files on-line. It's almost like reading the print copy of FSM had it been written all those decades ago - everything from "who's doing what" to in-depth interviews and comments about scoring procedures, some of it incredibly in-depth. Fascinating to see stuff like this. I was going to give examples of just how fascinating, but better to just go there yourselves. I could spend an entire week wading through all those gems.
It's all at ASMAC (American Society of Music Arrangers and Composers). I hope this link works...
www.asmac.org
If you get there, go to "Archives", which will lead you to "The Score - Historical Newsletters".
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You're welcome, Ron.
Thor, I think the difference here between the literature published in book form that you cite and those old newsletters is that in this case, to me at least, it really does seem to be like reading FSM fifty years before. Here's just one of millions of tidbits (I'm paraphrasing here) -
From 1944 - "Walter Scharf has finished scoring DONOVAN'S BRAIN..." - (already I was thinking, wasn't that a '50s movie?) - "... which will have its title changed to THE MONSTER... " (it actually became THE LADY AND THE MONSTER) - "The composer used a highlighted woodwind section for maximum eerieness, plus very specific microphone placing to achieve the desired effect."
It brings the past very much into the present. I'm really loving what I'm reading.
Here's another, from the "Letters" section - "I found your first issue most informative. Thank you." (Signed - Daniele Amfitheatrof).
Hope you all have as much fun and healthy enlightenment as I'm having!
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Jul 15, 2013 - 1:07 PM
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manderley
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Hi,
This won't be news to all, but it was amazing for me at least to stumble across old newsletters published between 1944 and 1950, and which can be read on PDF files on-line. It's almost like reading the print copy of FSM had it been written all those decades ago - everything from "who's doing what" to in-depth interviews and comments about scoring procedures, some of it incredibly in-depth. Fascinating to see stuff like this. I was going to give examples of just how fascinating, but better to just go there yourselves. I could spend an entire week wading through all those gems.
It's all at ASMAC (American Society of Music Arrangers and Composers). I hope this link works...
www.asmac.org
If you get there, go to "Archives", which will lead you to "The Score - Historical Newsletters".
A fabulous "new" old resource for us!
Thanks so much for posting this site, Graham.
This material is important because it was written, first-hand, as it was happening---not as later "revisionist" history in academic books about films and scores and players.
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That's my feeling too, manderley. There's a kind of old "newsreel authenticity" to it all which makes it very immediate.
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Great find, Watt! I intend to take a look a little later. I love reading older stuff like this.
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