The latest release from Film Score Monthly is a five-disc boxed set titled THE CINCINNATI KID: LALO SCHIFRIN FILM SCORES, VOL. 1 (1964-1968), limited to 2000 units. The contents are as follows:
Disc One: Rhino! film score
Disc Two: LP tracks from Music from the Motion Picture Once a Thief and Other Themes; Once a Thief film score
Disc Three: The Cincinnati Kid LP tracks, original film score tracks, bonus tracks
Disc Four: The Venetian Affair film score; Sol Madrid LP tracks
Disc Five: Sol Madrid film tracks; bonus tracks inc. themes from Medical Center, The Mask of Sheba, Earth II
Michael Giacchino won the Original Score Oscar last Sunday for his Grammy-winning score to UP, while T. Bone Burnett and Ryan Bingham (the singer/songwriter, not the George Clooney character from Up in the Air) won Original Song for "The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart)." Many film music fans were outraged that three-time Oscar winner Maurice Jarre was apparently omitted from the yearly In Memoriam montage, but he was actually featured at the beginning and end of the sequence -- unfortunately, the camera-and-editing coverage of the sequence made it difficult to spot him.
La-La Land has delayed their announced release of Marc Shaiman's Speechless to later in the month. In its place, they released Alan Silvestri's DUTCH this week.
Perseverance Records plans to release their long-rumored CD of David Newman's orchestral horror score to THE RUNESTONEin early April. They are also working on a CD of Christopher Young's score to John Dahl's underrated sci-fi noir UNFORGETTABLE, which has so far only been released as a limited composer promo.
Intrada plans to release two new CDs next week.
CDS AVAILABLE THIS WEEK
The Cincinnati Kid: Lalo Schifrin Film Scores, Vol. 1 (1964-1968) - Lalo Schifrin - Film Score Monthly
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels - Miles Goodman - La-La Land
Dutch- Alan Silvestri - La-La Land
Green Zone - John Powell - Varese Sarabande
The Pacific - Hans Zimmer, Geoff Zanelli, Blake Neely - Rhino
IN THEATERS TODAY
Green Zone - John Powell - Score CD on Varese Sarabande
Mother - Byeong-Woo Lee
Our Family Wedding - Transcenders
Remember Me - Marcelo Zarvos
She's Out of Your League - Michael Andrews
Big City - Erwann Kermrovant - MovieScore Media
A Ticket to Space - Erwann Kermorvant - Movie Score Media
Date Unknown
Grace - Austin Wintory - Buysoundtrax
Married to It - Henry Mancini - Kritzerland
The Message/Lion of the Desert - Maurice Jarre – Tadlow
Nanny McPhee & The Big Bang – James Newton Howard – Varese Sarabande
Return to Eden - Brian May - Buysoundtrax
The Runestone - David Newman - Perseverance
Speechless - Marc Shaiman - La-La Land
THIS WEEK IN FILM MUSIC HISTORY
March 12 - Georges Delerue born (1925)
March 12 - David Shire begins recording his score for Short Circuit (1986)
March 13 - Hugo Friedhofer wins his only Oscar, for The Best Years of Our Lives score (1947)
March 13 - Terence Blanchard born (1962)
March 13 - Carl Davis begins recording his score to The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981)
March 14 - Les Baxter born (1922)
March 14 - Quincy Jones born (1933)
March 14 - Roy Budd born (1947)
March 15 - Jurgen Knieper born (1941)
March 15 - Max Steiner wins Oscar for Since You Went Away score (1945)
March 15 - Ry Cooder born (1947)
March 15 - Stomu Yamashta born (1947)
March 16 - John Addison born (1920)
March 16 - Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco died (1968)
March 16 - Recording sessions begin for Leonard Rosenman’s score to Cross Creek (1983)
March 17 - Alfred Newman born (1901)
March 17 - Georges Delerue begins recording his score for Memories of Me (1988)
March 17 - Ernest Gold died (1999)
March 18 - William Lava born (1911)
March 18 - John Kander born (1927)
DID THEY MENTION THE MUSIC?
"But [director Tim] Burton has beefed up the original story so that it feels less personal and more like the many action films about young, maturing heroes who must slay a giant villain. Danny Elfman's score keeps the mood dark."
John Coyle, Associated Press
"But as soon as Alice unlocks one of those doors and enters into Wonderland proper (which, according to a poorly explained aside late in the film, is known to its residents as 'Underland'), the CG effects start coming so thick and fast that neither she nor we have time to experience much wonder at all. Look, there go Tweedledum and Tweedledee (voiced by Matt Lucas)—but before we've had a chance to witness their unique sibling dynamic at work or hear a single line of 'The Walrus and the Carpenter' (the recitation of which was one of the high points of the 1951 Disney version), Alice and the egg-shaped twins are being chased through the animated underbrush by some sort of giant saber-toothed beast as Danny Elfman's score throbs and swoops. The feeling, in this movie, is always that of being frantically rushed to the next thing: the Mad Hatter's tea party hasn't even gotten truly barmy before it's broken up by invading soldiers led by the menacing Knave of Hearts (a digitally stretched-out Crispin Glover)."
Dana Stevens, Slate.com
"The movie won't be for everyone -- it's a little rough for preteens, and it doesn't throw many laughs the audience's way -- but along with 'Sweeney Todd,' this is Burton's most interesting project in a decade. For every familiar Maxfield Parrish landscape, there's a more arresting and peculiar detail to catch your eye. Or your ear, despite a dull Danny Elfman musical score: A key moment late in the game relies on the thump-thump-thump of something massive rolling down a long, long staircase."
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune
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