Film Score Daily: Film Score Friday 6/26/09

The latest release from Intrada Special Collection, limited to 2500 units, presents the score to Disney's 1985 Depression-era adventure drama THE JOURNEY OF NATTY GANN, starring Meredith Salenger, John Cusack and Ray Wise. Elmer Bernstein wrote the first score for the film, which was even featured in the film's trailers, but his score was ultimately replaced by a new score by James Horner, which has never been released in any form until now (Bernstein's score was included in the epic boxed set of rejected Bernstein scores released by Varese Sarabande CD Club last year).

The next CD from Kritzerland will be the first ever soundtrack release of the 1973 film COPS AND ROBBERS, which starred Cliff Gorman and Joseph Bologna as two cops who plan a heist. It was written by Donald E. Westlake, whose novel The Hot Rock had helped make him the top name in comedy capers, and the original score, used in the final film largely as source music, was composed by Michel Legrand. Kritzerland's disc, limited to 1000 units and expected to be released in August, presents the Legrand cues from a planned but never released soundtrack LP.

Cheri - Alexandre Desplat - Score CD on Varese Sarabande
Dead Snow - Christian Wibe
The Hurt Locker - Marco Beltrami, Buck Sanders
My Sister's Keeper - Aaron Zigman - Score CD on Varese Sarabande
The Stoning of Soraya M. - John Debney - Score CD on Varese Sarabande
Surveillance - Todd Bryanton
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen - Steve Jablonsky - Score CD on Reprise
Under Our Skin - Justin Melland

COMING SOON

June 30
Brothers at War - Lee Holdridge - Buysoundtrax
Imago Mortis - Zacarias M. de la Riva - MovieScore Media
Public Enemies - Elliot Goldenthal - Decca
You Must Remember This Too: Classic Film Music Arranged for Guitar - various - Buysoundtrax
July 7
Drag Me to Hell - Christopher Young – Lakeshore
Orphan - John Ottman - Varese Sarabande
July 14
The Devil's Tomb - Bill Brown - MovieScore Media
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - Nicholas Hooper - New Line
July 21
Battlestar Galactica: Season Four - Bear McCreary - La-La Land
July 28
Sky Riders - Lalo Schifrin - Aleph
August 4
G.I. Joe - Alan Silvestri - Varese Sarabande
I Sell the Dead - Jeff Grace - MovieScore Media
September 7
Exodus (complete re-recording, plus additional themes) - Ernest Gold - Tadlow
September 15
Coco Before Chanel - Alexandre Desplat - Varese Sarabande (U.S. release)
Date Unknown
Cops and Robbers - Michel Legrand - Kritzerland

June 26 - John Greenwood born (1889)
June 26 - Dave Grusin born (1934)
June 26 - George Bassman died (1997)|
June 28 - Richard Rodgers born (1902)
June 28 - Bjorn Isfalt born (1942)
June 28 - George Duning's score for the Star Trek episode "Metamorphosis" is recorded (1967)
June 29 - Joseph Carl Breil born (1870)
June 29 - Bernard Herrmann born (1911)
June 29 - Ralph Burns born (1922)
June 29 - Mischa Spoliansky died (1985)
June 29 - Bert Shefter died (1999)
June 30 - Stanley Clarke born (1951)
June 30 - Jerry Goldsmith begins recording his score for The Boys from Brazil (1978)
June 30 - Craig Safan begins recording his score for the Amazing Stories episode "The Wedding Ring" (1986)
July 1 - Sigmund Krumgold born (1896)
July 1 - Anton Karas born (1906)
July 1 - Hans Werner Henze born (1926)
July 2 - Jeff Alexander born (1910)
July 2 - Fabio Frizzi born (1951)
July 2 - Miklos Rozsa begins recording his score to Plymouth Adventure (1952)|
July 2 - Frederic Talgorn born (1961)
July 2 - Nathan Van Cleave died (1970)

"The premise of 'The Proposal' is one big cliche. Man and woman despise each other until they don't. Man and woman bicker until they kiss. Man and woman enact scenes of romantic-comic tension while violins pluck bemusedly on the soundtrack -- until the big emotional reveal, attended by sniffling piano."

"Dawn-of-time music thunders portentously from the soundtrack as a band of primitive hunters track down a wild boar. For about 30 seconds of 'Year One, \' we could be watching a drama -- or something even more ridiculously straight-faced and somber, such as a historical re-enactment in a TV documentary. And then one of the hunters screws up, badly, and we meet Jack Black as Zed, an overly confident, loudmouth caveman who somehow can't find his place in prehistoric culture."