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Sep 2, 2013 - 5:30 PM
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edwzoomom
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I listened to this score today and marvelled at what a beautiful score this is and further what a marvelous movie it is from. The gorgeous and classy Maureen O'Hara, dapper John Wayne and one of my favorites - Barry Fitzgerald. This brought back such amazing memories. Victor Young was such a prolific composer, contributing so much to the world of film, Broadway and popular music.
This brings me to one of my biggest fears - that the music of this generation of composers like Young (to name a few others: Herrmann, Bernstein, Newman, Korngold, Rozsa, Tiomkin, Allwyn, Steiner, Friedhofer, Kaper, Auric, Mockridge, Waxman, Stromberg, Raksin, Skinner, Harline - okay more than a few) is going to be forgotten by the next generation when the lp and cd medium we buy and barter is replaced by something even more intangible than digital. This would truly be a joyless world for the film music lover.
I hope this fear of mine never takes place.
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Yes a great score from a great composer who sadly died much to young. Was still very active till the end. But he left a lot for us to hear.
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I hate to break it to you, but there are many people on THIS board who have never heard music by the composers you've listed. .
Can't blame them for that, seeing how all our so-called specialist labels combined have failed to give us even one legitimate original soundtrack by Skinner during the entire history of CD.
There's more chance of them having heard a Yeti howling outside their front door, than hearing a legitimate Skinner original soundtrack CD.
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There is good music to be heard in any era, it's a shame.
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It is a pity that comparatively few of his scores are available. He had a very distinctive voice and a supreme sense of melody. The Quiet Man is certainly among his best scores. Others I am tremendously fond of are Samson and Delilah, Rio Grande, The Uninvited, Run of the Arrow and Johnny Guitar.
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I'm watching this, and enjoying the score: the first time I'm truly yearning for a Young score, besides AROUND THE WORLD.....
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Although I like the Kenneth Alwyn re-recording on Scannan Film Classics quite a bit, I do feel it has its plusses and minuses. I think most of the lighthearted selections, as well as romantic cues are just wonderful, but I also felt a little let down by some of bigger orchestral cues, such as the Main Title, The Fight, and the End Title. They always sounded a little thin to me compared to the original tracks.
I had always hoped a CD of the original tracks would turn up one day.
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Yes, this one is on my list now.
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