Intrada has announced two new Signature Edition releases, both limited to 1000 units.
10 TO MIDNIGHT was the fourth of nine collaborations between director J. Lee Thompson and actor Charles Bronson, a thriller partly inspired by the notorious Richard Speck murders, with Bronson as a cop investigating a serial killer who commits murders while completely naked (most of our readers will be disappointed to learn that the killer is male). The score was composed by Robert O. Ragland, who scored such Bronson vehicles as Assassination and Messenger of Death as well as such genre cult classics as Grizzly and Q. The soundtrack was originally released on LP by Varese Sarabande, and the Intrada CD features a remastering of the LP cues.
Their other new CD is the first ever soundtrack release of the score to SCARECROWS, the 1988 horror film. The music was composed by the underrated orchestral composer Terry Plumeri, whose other credits include the critically acclaimed thriller One False Move as well as Death Wish V: The Face of Death and the TV version of Stephen King's Sometimes They Come Back.
Varese Sarabande has announced four new releases from their CD Club, which will begin shipping the week of October 12th.
The 1968 science–fiction classic Planet of the Apes featured one of Jerry Goldsmith's greatest and most influential scores, and though he chose to score Patton rather than its first sequel, Beneath the Planet of the Apes, he returned to the series for the second and final time with 1971's ESCAPE FROM THE PLANET OF THE APES. This tragicomic entry in the series reversed the storyline of the first film - this time it was the intelligent apes who travel through time and space to an alien land, present–day Earth - and so Goldsmith had the duty of making the world we know sound alien, giving the film a wonderfully groovy sound as well as an exciting main theme, thrilling action music and instrumental and motific echoes of his classic, original Apes scores. Varese's CD release of the complete Planet of the Apes score in the 1990s featured a suite from Escape; this CD Club release, limited to 3000 units, presents the first release of the complete Escape score.
A WALK IN THE SPRING RAIN was a 1969 romantic drama from director Guy Green (A Patch of Blue, and an Oscar winner for his cinematography of Great Expectations), pairing two–time Oscar winners Ingrid Bergman and Anthony Quinn. Elmer Bernstein wrote the score, including a title song with lyrics by Don Black, and the Varese CD, limited to 1500 units, is the first-ever commercial release of the score.
Franz Waxman wrote the jazzy score for Don Siegel's 1956 drama CRIME IN THE STREETS, starring John Cassavetes, Sal Mineo, James Whitmore and future director Mark Rydell, and suites from his score were released on a Decca LP, later re-released on Entracte, which also included several Waxman concert pieces. The Varese disc, limited to 1500 units, represents the first CD release of the album.
Their final new release features Jonathan Elias's score to the original 1984 film version of Stephen King's short story CHILDREN OF THE CORN, previously released on LP by Varese. The CD is limited to 1000 units.
The latest release from Kritzerland features the cast album of the Broadway musical CRY FOR US ALL based on the off–Broadway play Hogan's Goat, with music by Mitch Leigh (Man of La Mancha).
The latest Soundtrax column from Randall Larson features an interview with video game composer Assaf Rinde (Kill Zone) as well as reviews of such recent releases as Dr. Who and the Daleks, The Final Destination and Orphan.
CDS AVAILABLE THIS WEEK
Bone Eater - Chuck Cirino - Buysoundtrax
Dr. Who and the Daleks/Daleks Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. - Malcolm Lockyer, Bill McGuffle - Silva
Fear Itself - Luis A. Ascanio, Peter Bernstein, Charlie Clouser, Tobias Enhus, Jeff Grace, Bobby Johnson, Mark Lomax, Nicholas Pike, Jeff Rona, Anton Sanko, John Swihart, Brian Tyler - Lionsgate/Amazon [CD–R]
The Film Music of Mischa Spoliansky – Mischa Spoliansky – Chandos
Halloween II – John Carpenter, Alan Howarth – AHI
Heroes and Villains: Attila the Hun/Napoleon – Daniel Pemberton – MovieScore Media
Jasper – Florian Tesloff – MovieScore Media
Scarecrows – Terry Plumeri – Intrada Signature Edition
Taras Bulba – Franz Waxman – Kritzerland
10 to Midnight – Robert O. Ragland – Intrada Signature Edition
IN THEATERS TODAY
The Invention of Lying – Tim Atack
A Serious Man – Carter Burwell
Whip It – The Section Quartet – Song CD on Rhino
Zombieland – David Sardy
COMING SOON
THIS WEEK IN FILM MUSIC HISTORY
October 2 – Bernard Herrmann marries his first wife, writer Lucille Fletcher (1939)
October 2 – Recording sessions begin on Nathan Barr's score to Hostel (2005)
October 3 – Roy Webb born (1888)
October 3 – Arnold Bax died (1953)
October 3 – Jeff Alexander begins recording his rejected score to Saddle the Wind (1957)
October 3 – Johnny Mandel begins recording his rejected score to The Seven-Ups (1973)
October 4 – John Williams begins recording his score to Penelope (1966)
October 4 – BT born Brian Transeau (1970)
October 5 – Harold Faltermeyer born (1952)
October 5 – Jerry Fielding's score for the Star Trek episode "The Trouble With Tribbles" is recorded (1967)
October 6 – Stanley Myers born (1933)
October 6 – Giuseppe Becce died (1973)
October 6 – Nelson Riddle died (1985)
October 7 – Gabriel Yared born (1949)
October 7 – Marco Beltrami born (1968)
October 8 – Walter Schumann born (1913)
October 8 – Toru Takemitsu born (1930)
October 8 – Frank Skinner died (1968)
DID THEY MENTION THE MUSIC?
COCO BEFORE CHANEL - Alexandre Desplat
"As with [star Audrey] Tautou, so with the movie. For one thing, the score is far too gentle and antique; Chanel confessed to an affair with Stravinsky, for heaven's sake, and you could argue that her contribution to modernism was as fruitful and far-reaching as that of any other woman, including Gertrude Stein."
Anthony Lane, The New Yorker | 
