Intrada has only one new CD this week, but it's a remastered version of a film music masterpiece.

NORTH BY NORTHWEST was the fifth Alfred Hitchcock film scored by Bernard Herrmann, and it was only fitting he should score the film since he was first introduced to the director by the film's screenwriter, the great Ernest Lehman, who (after the plan to adapt The Wreck of the Mary Deare for Hitchcock fell through) set out to write the ultimate Hitchcock film -- a transcontinental thriller in the 39 Steps vein, with Cary Grant as the slick, shallow Everyman who runs afoul of beautiful, mysterious Eva Marie Saint and witty, villainous James Mason, in an espionage adventure that takes him from Manhattan to the perilous heights of Mount Rushmore. Composed between two Herrmann/Hitchcock masterpieces, his haunting and romantic Vertigo and the terrifying, groundbreaking Psycho, Herrmann's Northwest is one of his most purely enjoyable scores, with a gorgeous love theme and a main title theme that's one of his most irresistibly exciting compositions. This score has been released three times before -- in a re-recording conducted by Herrmann's friend Laurie Johnson; in a Rhino release of the original score tracks, many of which unfortunately had disappointing sound due to damaged tapes; and a Joel McNeely re-recording for the Varese Club. The Intrada Northwest is a remastering of the original score tracks with greatly improved sound, and the non-Herrmann source cues included at the end as extras.

The Film Music Society has announced their first new CD in several years (available only for Society subscribers), a tribute disc in honor of the late Leonard Rosenman. ALEXANDER THE GREAT AND OTHER RARE ROSENMAN features the music from the unsold Alexander the Great TV pilot starring Willam Shatner, paradoxically one of the composer's most obscure yet beloved scores, as well as cues from the popular WWII TV series Combat!, the TV movie Where Pigeons Go to Die, the Disney park attraction Body Wars, and his Emmy-winning Sybil. This disc is limited to 1000 units and is only available through the Film Music Society.

On September 18, Varese Sarabande will release James Horner's epic choral-and-orchestral score for the recent historical drama FOR GREATER GLORY.

MARVIN HAMLISCH  1944 - 2012

Composer Marvin Hamlisch died on Monday, August 6 in Los Angeles of undisclosed causes. Born on June 2, 1944 in New York City, Hamlisch was a musical prodigy who was accepted to study at Julliard at the record age of seven. In his early twenties, he worked as a rehearsal pianist and Broadway arranger and at the age of 24, he scored his first film, writing melodic music in the Elmer Bernstein vein for Frank Perry's film of The Swimmer. This led to more feature assignments, including Woody Allen's early comedies Take the Money and Run and Bananas as well as Disney's The World's Greatest Athlete, but he truly made his mark in the public eye when in 1974 he became the first composer to win all three music Oscars in the same year -- for his original score and title song to The Way We Were, and his adaptations of Scott Joplin music for Best Picture winner The Sting. The same year he won the Grammy for Best New Artist. Fittingly for his stage background, he achieved his greatest triumph with the behind-the-scenes Broadway musical A Chorus Line, which earned him not only the Tony Award but the Pulitzer Prize as well.  For the rest of his career, he balanced work on film, the stage, television (he earned Emmys for his original songs and his music direction of Barbra Streisand concert specials) and the concert hall, becoming one of the few artists to win all four of the top industry awards, the Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony. 

 Previously Oscar-nominated for his original song for the movie Kotch, he followed his triple win with an additional eight Oscar nominations. He became the only composer nominated for writing a James Bond score, bringing 007 to the disco age with The Spy Who Loved Me, also receiving a nomination for the hit theme song, "Nobody Does It Better." One of his finest works, the moving and romantic score for Sophie's Choice, earned him another score nomination, and was also nominated for songs from Same Time, Next Year; Ice Castles; A Chorus Line (he and lyricist Edward Kleban contributed two new songs to the 1985 film version); Shirley Valentine; and The Mirror Has Two Faces.  He also adapted Pachelbel's Canon for his score for the 1980 Best Picture winner, Ordinary People, and after a long break from film composing, director Steven Soderbergh hired him to pay homage to his memorably zany Bananas music for the 2009 comedy The Informant!.

His work for the musical theater included the autographical musical comedy They're Playing Our Song, based on his then-ongoing relationship with the show's lyricist, Carole Bayler Sager, and he received a Tony nomination for one of his most underrated works, the stage musical version of the cult classic film Sweet Smell of Success.  He also wrote the music for stage musicals based on the films Smile and The Goodbye Girl, and before his death he wrote the score for an upcoming musical based on Jerry Lewis' The Nutty Professor. He is survived by his wife, Terre Blair.

CDS AVAILABLE THIS WEEK

Alexander the Great and Other Rare Rosenman - Leonard Rosenman - Film Music Society
The Bourne Legacy - James Newton Howard - Varese Sarabande
The Chorus - Bruno Coulais - Varese Sarabande
North by Northwest - Bernard Herrmann - Intrada Special Collection
Women in Love - Georges Delerue - Quartet

IN THEATERS TODAY

The Bourne Legacy - James Newton Howard - Score CD on Varese Sarabande
The Campaign - Theodore Shapiro
Hope Springs - Theodore Shapiro
Red Hook Summer - Bruce Hornsby - Score CD due Aug. 28 on 429

COMING SOON

August 14
The Greatest Film Scores of Dimitri Tiomkin - Dimitri Tiomkin - LSO Live
The Odd Life of Timothy Green - Geoff Zanelli - Disney [CD-R]
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
Red Hook Summer - Bruce Hornsby - 429
September 11
Baraka: The Deluxe Edition - Michael Stearns - Varese Sarabande
Resident Evil: Retribution - tomandandy - Milan
The Words - Marcelo Zarvos - Lakeshore
September 18
For Greater Glory - James Horner - Varese Sarabande
September 25
Frankenweenie - Danny Elfman - Disney
Date Unknown
Black Rain - Hans Zimmer - La-La Land
The Bodyguard - Alan Silvestri - La-La Land
Dear Brigitte/Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation - George Duning/Henry Mancini - Kritzerland
The Expendables 2 - Brian Tyler - Silva (import)
The Great Texas Dynamite Chase/The Great Smokey Roadblock - Craig Safan - Buysoundtrax
L'Imprecateur/Interdit Aux Moins De 13 Ans - Richard Rodney Bennett/Gabriel Yared - Music Box
The Lodger - Nitin Sawhney - Network
Mama Dracula - Roy Budd - Music Box
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - various - La-La Land
Un Uomo a Meta - Ennio Morircone - GDM

THIS WEEK IN FILM MUSIC HISTORY

August 10 - Brian Easdale born (1909)
August 10 - Mischa Bakaleinikoff died (1960)
August 10 - Isaac Hayes died (2008)
August 11 - Ron Grainer born (1922)
August 11 - Miklos Rozsa begins recording his score for The Light Touch (1951)
August 11 - Joe Jackson born (1954)
August 12 - David Munrow born (1942)
August 12 - Mark Knopfler born (1949)
August 12 - Pat Metheny born (1954)
August 12 - Jerry Goldsmith begins recording his score to The Traveling Executioner (1970)
August 12 - Marty Paich died (1995)
August 13 - John Cacavas born (1930)
August 13 - Jerry Goldsmith begins recording his score to Star Trek: Nemesis (2002)
August 13 - John Ottman begins recording his score to Gothika (2003)
August 14 - Lee Zahler born (1893)
August 14 - James Horner born (1953)
August 14 - Oscar Levant died (1972)
August 15 - Jacques Ibert born (1890)
August 15 - Jimmy Webb born (1946)
August 15 - Bruce Broughton begins recording his score for George Washington II: The Forging of a Nation (1986)
August 15 - Ronald Stein died (1988)
August 15 - Ron Jones records his pilot score for the animated Superman series (1988)
August 16 - Miles Goodman died (1996)

DID THEY MENTION THE MUSIC?

TOTAL RECALL - Harry Gregson-Williams

"The sci-fi-tinged flick set in the near future has the hurtling action of a summer blockbuster. It has chases. It rides on the rapport of gunfire and an incessant score meant to get the adrenaline pumping."

Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post

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.

August 10
BREATHLESS (Martial Solal), BAND OF OUTSIDERS (Michel Legrand) [Cinematheque: Aero]
COMPANEROS (Ennio Morricone), THE PRICE OF POWER (Luis Bacalov) [Cinematheque: Egyptian]
CRY-BABY (Patrick Williams) [Nuart]
THE DESCENT (David Julyan) [Silent Movie Theater]
MY BEST GIRL, SPARROWS [New Beverly]
PUSS IN BOOTS (Henry Jackman) [LACMA]
WHIRLPOOL (David Raksin), THE WHOLE TOWN’S TALKING [UCLA]
YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN (John Morris) [AMPAS]

August 11
BACK TO THE FUTURE (Alan Silvestri) [AMPAS]
BEFORE SUNRISE, BEFORE SUNSET [Cinematheque: Aero]
DJANGO (Luis Bacalov), THE GRAND DUEL (Luis Bacalov) [Cinematheque: Egyptian]
MARY POPPINS (Richard M. Sherman, Robert B. Sherman) [Cinematheque: Aero]
MY BEST GIRL, SPARROWS [New Beverly]
PARTY WIRE, THE DEFENSE RESTS [UCLA]
THE RAID: REDEMPTION (Mike Shinoda, Joseph Trapanese) [New Beverly]
SPLIT IMAGE (Bill Conti) [Silent Movie Theater]

August 12
DJANGO KILL...IF YOU LIVE, SHOOT! (Ivan Vandor), HELLBENDERS (Ennio Morricone) [Cinematheque: Egyptian]
ESCAPE IN THE FOG, BEHIND LOCKED DOORS [UCLA]
A FACE IN THE CROWD (Tom Glazer) [Cinematheque: Aero]
THE INCREDIBLE MR. LIMPET (Frank Perkins) [UCLA]
STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN (James Horner), THE THING (Ennio Morricone) [New Beverly]

August 13
REAR WINDOW (Franz Waxman) [Cinematheque: Aero]
SPARTACUS (Alex North) [AMPAS]
STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN (James Horner), THE THING (Ennio Morricone) [New Beverly]

August 14
STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN (James Horner), THE THING (Ennio Morricone) [New Beverly]

August 15
POLTERGEIST (Jerry Goldsmith), ROCKY III (Bill Conti) [New Beverly]

August 16
JOHNNY GUITAR (Victor Young), THE BADLANDERS [Cinematheque: Egyptian]
MALCOLM (Simon Jeffes), THE BIG STEAL (Chris Gough, Phil Judd) [Cinematheque: Aero]
POLTERGEIST (Jerry Goldsmith), ROCKY III (Bill Conti) [New Beverly]

August 17
AMY (Phil Judd) [Cinematheque: Aero]
EMPEROR OF THE NORTH (Frank DeVol), THE VIKINGS (Mario Nascimbene) [Cinematheque: Egyptian]
GUMMO [Nuart]
HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON (John Powell) [LACMA]
MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL (DeWolfe) [AMPAS]
ROAD HOUSE (Michael Kamen) [Silent Movie Theater]
SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD (Nigel Godrich) [New Beverly]
WUTHERING HEIGHTS (Alfred Newman), THE LITTLE FOXES (Meredith Willson) [New Beverly]

August 18
BENEATH THE PLANET OF THE APES (Leonard Rosenman) [Silent Movie Theater]
LIZSTOMANIA (Rick Wakeman) [Silent Movie Theater]
MONKEY SHINES (David Shire) [New Beverly]
WET HOT AMERICAN SUMMER (Theodore Shapiro, Craig Wedren), SLEEPAWAY CAMP (Edward Bilous), LITTLE DARLINGS (Charles Fox) [Silent Movie Theater]
THE WIZARD OF OZ (Harold Arlen, Herbert Stothart) [AMPAS]
THE WILD BUNCH (Jerry Fielding), THE DIRTY DOZEN (Frank DeVol) [Cinematheque: Egyptian]
WUTHERING HEIGHTS (Alfred Newman), THE LITTLE FOXES (Meredith Willson) [New Beverly]

August 19
HEADHUNTERS (Trond Bjerknes, Jeppe Kaas), TROLL HUNTER [New Beverly]
JAILHOUSE ROCK (Jeff Alexander) [Cinematheque: Egyptian]
JUST IMAGINE (Arthur Kay) [Cinematheque: Aero]
MARTY (Roy Webb), THE CATERED AFFAIR (Andre Previn) [Cinematheque: Egyptian]
SEVEN DAYS IN MAY (Jerry Goldsmith) [UCLA]