The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences has announced their latest nominations for the Primetime Emmys, including the following music categories:
OUTSTANDING MUSIC COMPOSITION FOR A MINISERIES, MOVIE OR A SPECIAL (ORIGINAL DRAMATIC SCORE)
DISNEY PREP & LANDING: NAUGHTY VS. NICE Michael Giacchino
GAME CHANGE Theodore Shapiro
HATFIELDS & MCCOYS: EPISODE 1 John Debney, Tony Morales
HEMINGWAY & GELLHORN Javier Navarrete
MISSING: THE HARD DRIVE Robert Duncan
SHERLOCK: A SCANDAL IN BELGRAVIA David Arnold, Michael Price
OUTSTANDING MUSIC COMPOSITION FOR A SERIES (ORIGINAL DRAMATIC SCORE)
THE BORGIAS “The Confession” Trevor Morris
DOWNTON ABBEY “Episode 6” John Lunn
PAN AM “Pilot” Blake Neely
SMASH “Publicity” Marc Shaiman, Christian Bacon
30 ROCK “The Tuxedo Begins” Jeff Richmond
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL MAIN TITLE THEME MUSIC
GREAT EXPECTATIONS (MASTERPIECE) Martin Phipps
HELL ON WHEELS Gustavo Santaolalla
HOMELAND Sean Callery
PAGE EIGHT (MASTERPIECE) Paul Englishby
TOUCH Lisa Coleman, Wendy Melvoin
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL MUSIC AND LYRICS
THE HEART OF CHRISTMAS “The Heart Of Christmas” Music & Lyrics by Matthew West
RAISING HOPE: “PRODIGY” “Welcome Back To Hope” Music & Lyrics by Matthew W. Thompson
SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE; HOST: JASON SEGEL “I Can't Believe I'm Hosting” Music by Eli Brueggemann,Lyrics by Seth Meyers, John Mulaney
SMASH: PILOT “ Let Me Be Your Star” Music & Lyrics by Marc Shaiman, Scott Wittman,
65TH ANNUAL TONY AWARDS: “It's Not Just For Gays Anymore” Music by Adam Schlesinger, Lyrics by David Javerbaum
OUTSTANDING MUSIC DIRECTION
CHRISTMAS IN WASHINGTON Ian Fraser
COUNTRY MUSIC (IN PERFORMANCE AT THE WHITE HOUSE) Steven A. Gibson
THE KENNEDY CENTER HONORS Rob Berman, Rob Mathes
MICHAEL FEINSTEIN: THE SINATRA LEGACY Bill Elliott
SETH MACFARLANE: SWINGIN’ IN CONCERT Joel McNeeley
THE THOMASHEFSKYS: MUSIC AND MEMORIES OF A LIFE IN THE YIDDISH THEATER (GREAT PERFORMANCES) Michael Tilson Thomas
Kritzerland has announced two new, upcoming CDs, including a change-of-pace release for the label.
The first film version of George Langelaan's short story THE FLY, released in 1958, is a classic of 1950s sci-fi/horror cinema with its memorably gruesome premise and at least one all-time classic moment ("Help me...") (David Cronenberg directed the superior remake in 1986, with Oscar-winning makeup, a superlative performance by Jeff Goldblum, and a powerful score by Howard Shore that was a creative breakthrough for the composer). David Hedison (billed as Al Hedison) played the ill-fated scientist hero, Patricia Medina played his wife, forced by love to commit one of the grisliest acts in any film of the era, and able support was provided by Vincent Price and Herbert Marshall. The score was composed by the team of Paul Sawtell and Bert Shefter, who also returned to score RETURN OF THE FLY, the inevitable sequel (this time in black and white), with Brett Halsey (The Girl in Lovers' Lane) as the grown-up son of Hedison who, to no audience member's surprise, manages to suffer the same fate as dear papa, and Vincent Price reprising his role from the orignal. The Kritzerland CD features a remastered version of both complete scores (the out-of-print Percepto Fly Trilogy set also included the score to the final film in the series, Curse of the Fly, scored by Shefter alone).
In 1991, Swedish novelist Henning Mankell introduced the character of police detective Kurt Wallander in the novel Faceless Killers. The Wallander novels spawned a series of feature adaptations starring Rolf Laasgard as the detective, and in 2005 Krister Henriksson began playing the role, both on the big screen and in a series of TV mysteries, with one receiving a U.S. theatrical release this year. Kenneth Branagh also played the role in a recent British series, with the supporting and guest cast including such top names as Tom Hiddleston, Rupert Graves and David Warner. Kritzerland's WALLANDER CD features Adam Norden's music for the first season of the Henriksson Wallander mysteries.
Quartet has announced four new upcoming soundtrack CDs -- a two-disc set of the 1968 romance BORA BORA, featuring both Piero Piccioni's original score and Les Baxter's re-score for the American release (the Baxter tracks are taken from an LP copy); Piero Umiliani's score for the 1970 erotic film LE ISOLE DELL'AMORE; Nuno Malo's score for the 2012 period drama MIEL DE NARANJAS; and Zeltia Montes' score for the 2012 Spanish drama VILAMOR (aka Lovetown).
Intrada plans to release two new CDs next week.
On August 21, Varese Sarabande will release the soundtrack to SAMSARA, a non-narrative documentary from director Ron Fricke in the style of his earlier films Baraka and Chronos, with a score by Michael Stearns (Chronos), Lisa Gerrard (Gladiator, Whale Rider) and Marcello De Francisci.
Buysoundtrax has announced an upcoming CD pairing two early scores by Craig Safan: THE GREAT TEXAS DYNAMITE CHASE, from 1976, and THE GREAT SMOKEY ROADBLOCK (with Henry Fonda and Susan Sarandon!) from 1977.
On August 3rd, 4th and 5th, Thomas Wilkins will conduct the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra performing the music of Patrick Doyle, Michael Giacchino, Randy Newman and Thomas Newman in the Hollywood Bowl event PIXAR IN CONCERT.
CDS AVAILABLE THIS WEEK
Batman: The Animated Series, Vol. 1 (re-release) - Shirley Walker, et al - La-La Land
Batman: The Animated Series, Vol. 2 - Shirley Walker, et al - La-La Land
The Dark Knight Rises - Hans Zimmer - Watertower
La Pacifista - Giorgio Gaslini - Quartet
La Sorella - Giorgio Gaslini - Quartet
The Phantom - David Newman - La-La Land
The Wayward Bus/The Enemy Below - Leigh Harline - Kritzerland
X2 - John Ottman - La-La Land
IN THEATERS TODAY
The Dark Knight Rises - Hans Zimmer - Score CD on Watertower
Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai - Ryuichi Sakamoto
The Queen of Versailles - Jeff Beal
COMING SOON
July 24
Crimes of the Heart - Georges Delerue - Varese Sarabande
Killer Joe - Tyler Bates - Milan
The Mighty Macs - William Ross - Varese Sarabande
Ruby Sparks - Nick Urata - Milan
Tai-Pan - Maurice Jarre - Varese Sarabande
A Thousand Words - John Debney - Varese Sarabande
July 31
The Bourne Legacy - James Newton Howard - Varese Sarabande
The Chorus - Bruno Coulais - Varese Sarabande
August 14
The Greatest Film Scores of Dimitri Tiomkin - Dimitri Tiomkin - LSO Live
ParaNorman - Jon Brion - Relativity Music
August 21
The Apparition - tomandandy - Varese Sarabande
Samsara - Michael Stearns, Lisa Gerrard, Marcello De Francisci
August 28
Lawless - Nick Cave, Warren Ellis - Sony
Date Unknown
Black Rain - Hans Zimmer - La-La Land
The Bodyguard - Alan Silvestri - La-La Land
Bora Bora - Les Baxter, Piero Piccioni - Quartet
Charmed - J. Peter Robinson - Perseverance
The Fly/Return of the Fly - Paul Sawtell, Bert Shefter - Kritzerland
The Great Texas Dynamite Chase/The Great Smokey Roadblock - Craig Safan - Buysoundtrax
Green Lantern: The Animated Series - Frederik Wiedmann - La-La Land
Le Isole Dell'Amore - Piero Umiliani - Quartet
Miel de Naranjas - Nuno Malo - Quartet
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - various - La-La Land
Un Uomo a Meta - Ennio Morircone - GDM
Used Cars - Patrick Williams, Ernest Gold - La-La Land
Vilamor (Lovetown) - Zeltia Montes - Quartet
Wallander - Adam Norden - Kritzerland
THIS WEEK IN FILM MUSIC HISTORY
July 20 - Since You Went Away released in theaters (1944)
July 20 - Gail Kubik died (1984)
July 21 - Jerry Goldsmith died (2004)
July 22 - Alan Menken born (1949)
July 22 - John Barry begins recording the orchestral score to King Kong (1976)
July 22 - Alan Silvestri begins recording his score for the Amazing Stories episode "Go to the Head of the Class" (1986)
July 23 - Bill Lee born (1928)
July 23 - Leith Stevens died (1970)
July 23 - Georges Auric died (1983)
July 23 - John Addison records his score for the Amazing Stories episode "The Greible" (1986)
July 23 - Hans J. Salter died (1994)
July 23 - Piero Piccioni died (2004)
July 24 - Robert Farnon born (1917)
July 24 - Wilfred Josephs born (1927)
July 24 - Les Reed born (1929)
July 24 - High Noon released (1952)
July 24 - Leo Shuken died (1976)
July 25 - Don Ellis born (1934)
July 25 - Thurston Moore born (1958)
July 25 - Bruce Broughton records his unused adaptations of Bach for The Accidental Tourist (1988)
July 26 - Buddy Baker died (2002)
DID THEY MENTION THE MUSIC?
FAREWELL, MY QUEEN - Bruno Coulais
"Katia Wyszkop’s production design is well attuned to the squalor of the servants’ quarters, where mosquitos and dead rats are always turning up, and Bruno Coulais’ score uses sawing violins to usher along the action and summon a sense of dread."
Justin Chang, Variety
TRISHNA - Shigeru Umebauashi
"Even the music, which mixes [Amit] Trivedi’s songs with a beautiful original score by Shigeru Umebayashi (composer for Wong Kar-Wai and Zhang Yimou), reinforces the helmer’s unique approach to the material."
Peter DeBruge, Variety
THE NEXT TEN DAYS IN L.A.
Screenings of older films, at the following L.A. movie theaters: AMPAS, American Cinematheque: Aero, American Cinematheque: Egyptian, LACMA, New Beverly, Nuart, Silent Movie Theater and UCLA.
July 20
CASABLANCA (Max Steiner), THE AFRICAN QUEEN (Allan Gray) [Cinematheque: Aero]
THE CONNECTION (Freddie Redd) [New Beverly]
THE DEVIL, PROBABLY (Philippe Sarde), THE PHANTOM OF LIBERTY [LACMA]
HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH (Stephen Trask) [Nuart]
PILLOW TALK (Frank DeVol) [AMPAS]
ROLLING THUNDER (Barry DeVorzon) [Silent Movie Theater]
SPACEBALLS (John Morris) [Cinematheque: Egyptian]
July 21
BREAKING AWAY (Patrick Williams) [Silent Movie Theater]
CITIZEN KANE (Bernard Herrmann) [Cinematheque: Aero]
THE CONNECTION (Freddie Redd) [New Beverly]
DON’T BOTHER TO KNOCK (Lionel Newman) [Cinematheque: Egyptian]
THE GREAT OUTDOORS (Thomas Newman) [New Beverly]
THE KARATE KID (Bill Conti) [AMPAS]
RIDE LONESOME (Heinz Roemheld), COMANCHE STATION (Mischa Bakaleinikoff) [UCLA]
July 22
BULLFIGHTER AND THE LADY (Victor Young), MY KINGDOM FOR... (Raul Lavista) [UCLA]
CAPTAIN BLOOD (Erich Wolfgang Korngold) [Cinematheque: Egyptian]
THE CONNECTION (Freddie Redd) [New Beverly]
LAURA (David Raksin), BONJOUR TRISTESSE (Georges Auric) [Cinematheque: Aero]
MY FRIEND FLICKA (Sig Neufeld) [UCLA]
SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS (Frank Churchill, Leigh Harline, Paul J. Smith) [Cinematheque: Aero]
July 23
THE CONNECTION (Freddie Redd) [New Beverly]
GRAND PRIX (Maurice Jarre) [AMPAS]
VISIONS OF EIGHT (Henry Mancini) [Silent Movie Theater]
July 24
THE CONNECTION (Freddie Redd) [New Beverly]
TOO MANY HUSBANDS (Frederick Hollander) [LACMA]
July 25
THE CONNECTION (Freddie Redd) [New Beverly]
DR. STRANGELOVE, OR: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB (Laurie Johnson) [Cinematheque: Aero]
July 26
THE BIG GUNDOWN (Ennio Morricone), THE HILLS RUN RED (Ennio Morricone) [Cinematheque: Egyptian]
THE CONNECTION (Freddie Redd) [New Beverly]
THE DEER HUNTER (Stanley Myers) [Cinematheque: Aero]
July 27
BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S (Henry Mancini), TWO FOR THE ROAD (Henry Mancini) [Cinematheque: Aero]
DREAMGIRLS (Stephen Trask) [AMPAS]
THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY (Ennio Morricone) [Cinematheque: Egyptian]
HOUSE OF WAX (John Ottman) [Silent Movie Theater]
OVERBOARD (Alan Silvestri) [Nuart]
REMORQUES (Roland-Manuel), THE WAGES OF FEAR (Georges Auric) [LACMA]
SADDLE THE WIND (Elmer Bernstein) [UCLA]
SNOOPY COME HOME (Don Ralke, Richard M. Sherman, Robert B. Sherman), HOLLYWOOD OR BUST (Walter Scharf) [New Beverly]
July 28
THE DARK CRYSTAL (Trevor Jones) [AMPAS]
THE GODFATHER PART II (Nino Rota. Carmine Coppola) [Cinematheque: Aero]
THE MERCENARY (Ennio Morricone, Bruno Nicolai), DEATH RIDES A HORSE (Ennio Morricone) [Cinematheque: Egyptian]
SNOOPY COME HOME (Don Ralke, Richard M. Sherman, Robert B. Sherman), HOLLYWOOD OR BUST (Walter Scharf) [New Beverly]
July 29
DEATH WISH (Herbie Hancock) [New Beverly]
THE MAN FROM THE ALAMO (Frank Skinner) [UCLA]
SABATA (Marcello Giombini), IF YOU MEET SARTANA, PRAY FOR DEATH (Piero Piccioni) [Cinematheque: Egyptian]
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS (Elmer Bernstein) [Cinematheque: Aero]
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