At the Star Trek convention in Las Vegas, La-La Land Records announced an upcoming CD-set, due late this year, that will not only be arguably one of the most momentous soundtrack releases of all time, but certainly the most momentous TV soundtrack ever -- STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES SOUNDTRACK COLLECTION. Several of the scores from the classic, original 1960s Star Trek episodes have been released in re-recordings as well as suites of original score tracks, but the La-La Land collection will a 15-disc boxed set that includes remastered versions of ALL OF IT, including never-released episode scores like "Elaan of Troyius," "Friday's Child" and "Who Mourns for Adonais?", as well as unused cues that have not been heard since they were recorded nearly five decades ago, representing such acclaimed composers as Alexander Courage, George Duning, Jerry Fielding, Gerald Fried and Sol Kaplan, as well as the more obscure but still welcome Samuel Matlovsky and Joseph Mullendore. If you want to be on the La-La Land mailing list for updates about the release, go to this link. I don't know about you, but for me this one is literally a life-long dream come true (with the disclaimer that I didn't actually anticipate CD-boxed sets when I first watched the show in the late '60s), and I can hardly wait.

The latest CD announced by Kriterzerland features a previously unreleased noir score by the great Miklos Rozsa -- THE STRANGE LOVE OF MARTHA IVERS, a dark romantic drama starring Barbara Stanywyck and Van Heflin, and featuring a breakthrough performance by Kirk Douglas as (surprisingly) Stanwyck's weak-willed husband. The film was directed by two-time Oscar winner Lewis Milestone (All Quiet on the Western Front), and was Oscar-nominated for Jack Patrick's original story.

Intrada plans to release two new CDs next week.

CDS AVAILABLE THIS WEEK

Dear Brigitte/Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation - George Duning/Henry Mancini - Kritzerland
The Great Texas Dynamite Chase/The Great Smokey Roadblock - Craig Safan - Buysoundtrax
The Greatest Film Scores of Dimitri Tiomkin - Dimitri Tiomkin - LSO Live
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
The Odd Life of Timothy Green - Geoff Zanelli - Disney [CD-R]
ParaNorman - Jon Brion - Relativity Music

IN THEATERS TODAY

The Awakening - Daniel Pemberton - Score CD on MovieScore Media/ScreamWorks
Beloved - Alex Beaupain - Song CD Les Bien-Aimes on Naive (import)
Cosmpolis - Howard Shore - Score CD on Howe
The Expendables 2 - Brian Tyler - Score CD due from Silva (import)
It Is No Dream: The Life of Theodore Herzl - Lee Holdridge
The Odd Life of Timothy Green - Geoff Zanelli - Score CD-R on Disney
ParaNorman - Jon Brion - Score CD on Relativity Music
Sparkle - Salaam Remi - Song CD on RCA
Why Stop Now - Spencer David Hutchings

COMING SOON

August 21
The Apparition - tomandandy - Varese Sarabande
August 28
Lawless - Nick Cave, Warren Ellis - Sony
Red Hook Summer - Bruce Hornsby - 429
Samsara - Michael Stearns, Lisa Gerrard, Marcello De Francisci
Tad: The Last Explorer - Zacarias M. de la Riva - MovieScore Media
September 11
Arbitrage - Cliff Martinez - Milan
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
The Expendables 2 - Brian Tyler - Silva (import)
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - various - La-La Land
Star Trek: The Original Series Soundtrack Collection - Alexander Courage, George Duning, Jerry Fielding, Gerald Fried, Sol Kaplan, Samuel Matlovsky, Joseph Mullendore, Fred Steiner - La-La Land
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers - Miklos Rozsa - Kritzerland
Un Uomo a Meta - Ennio Morircone - GDM

THIS WEEK IN FILM MUSIC HISTORY

August 18 - Igo Kantor born (1930)
August 18 - Robert Russell Bennett died (1981)
August 18 - Jack Elliott died (2001)
August 18 - Elmer Bernstein died (2004)
August 19 - Fumio Hayasaka born (1914)
August 19 - Herman Stein born (1915)
August 19 - Luchi De Jesus born (1923)
August 19 - Ray Cooper born (1942)
August 19 - Elmer Bernstein begins recording his score for Desire Under the Elms (1957)
August 19 - Andre Previn begins recording his score to The Subterraneans (1959)
August 19 - Recording sessions begin for Bronislau Kaper's score for BUtterfield 8 (1960)
August 19 - Alexander Courage's score for the Star Trek episode "The Man Trap" is recorded (1966)
August 19 - Jerry Goldsmith begins recording his score to The Illustrated Man (1968)
August 19 - Luchi De Jesus died (1984)
August 20 - Raoul Kraushaar born (1908)
August 20 - Alain Goraguer born (1931)
August 20 - Stelvio Cipriani born (1937)
August 20 - Isaac Hayes born (1942)
August 20 - Ron Jones records his score for the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Naked Now" (1987)
August 21 - Basil Poledouris born (1945)
August 21 - Joe Strummer born (1952)
August 21 - Walter Schumann died (1958)
August 21 - Angelo Francesco Lavagnino died (1987)
August 22 - Bronislau Kaper begins recording his score for Ride, Vaquero! (1952)
August 22 - Johnny Green begins recording his score for Twilight of Honor (1963)
August 22 - Bruce Broughton begins recording his score for This Girl for Hire (1983)
August 22 - John Williams begins recording his score for the Amazing Stories episode "The Mission" (1985)
August 23 - Willy Russell born (1947)
August 23 - Alexandre Desplat born (1961)
August 23 - Marvin Hatley died (1986)
August 23 - David Rose died (1990)

DID THEY MENTION THE MUSIC?

THE BOURNE LEGACY - James Newton Howard

"Besides, 'The Bourne Legacy' isn’t the sort of picture that takes risks, other than to see just how loud James Newton Howard’s score can go without causing permanent deafness in the audience."

Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald

"[Writer-director Tony] Gilroy reassembles much of his 'Michael Clayton' team, relying composer James Newton Howard to help goose the energy."

Peter Debruge, Variety

HOPE SPRINGS - Theodore Shapiro

"Well, hey, come for the possibility of a naughty group grope and a sex comedy artificially sweetened by a gummy, chirpy soundtrack of directional mood music and easy-listening songs.  But stay for the silences in the exquisitely painful, realistic therapy sessions."

Lisa Scharzbaum, Entertainment Weely

"Little things bugged me about 'Hope Springs,' including the end credits (which depict a rather-too-radically changed main character) and the musical score, which seems nervous to reassure us that all the angst will pay off in rainbows. But it's gratifying to see a movie that doesn't have anything to do with superheroics or the end of the world, merely ordinary heroics of the human heart."

Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune

RED HOOK SUMMER - Bruce Hornsby

“'Red Hook Summer,' like most of Mr. Lee’s films, has a prominent musical soundtrack that underscores the editorial tone of the screenplay, written by Mr. Lee with James McBride. Its binding ingredient is the sturdy, gospel-tinged piano of Bruce Hornsby, while Enoch’s services are lifted by performances of a strong gospel choir directed by Jim Davis."

Stephen Holden, New York Times

"The movie meanders, which fans accustomed to Lee’s more conventional work may find frustrating, and yet, ther’es a method to its seemingly loose form.  One need only listen: Beneath every scene, powerful music enhances the film’s resonance in much the same way its hyper-saturated colors do visually.  As the film unfolds, the style changes from hip-hop to a form of rolling piano (composed by Bruce Hornsby) before blooming into full-blown praise music."

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.

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]

August 20
HEADHUNTERS (Trond Bjerknes, Jeppe Kaas), TROLL HUNTER [New Beverly]
THE LAST OF SHEILA (Billy Goldenberg) [Cinematheque: Aero]

August 21
GASLAND [Cinematheque: Aero]

August 22
GRAND ILLUSION (Joseph Kosma) [Cinematheque: Egyptian]
THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN, INNERSPACE (Jerry Goldsmith) [New Beverly]
SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES (James Horner), FAHRENHEIT 451 (Bernard Herrmann) [Cinematheque: Aero]

August 23
HOLLYWOOD CAVALCADE [Cinematheque: Egyptian]
THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN, INNERSPACE (Jerry Goldsmith) [New Beverly]
YES, MADAM (Romeo Diaz) [Silent Movie Theater]

August 24
THE APARTMENT (Adolph Deutsch), GUYS AND DOLLS (Frank Loesser, Cyril Mockrdige, Jay Blackton) [New Beverly]
THE PUBLIC MENACE, ADVENTURE IN MANHATTAN [UCLA]
SHOCK CORRIDOR (Paul Dunlap), FORTY GUNS (Harry Sukman) [Cinematheque: Aero}
TOTAL RECALL (Jerry Goldsmith) [Cinematheque: Egyptian]
WEEKEND AT BERNIE'S (Andy Summers) [Nuart]

August 25
THE APARTMENT (Adolph Deutsch), GUYS AND DOLLS (Frank Loesser, Cyril Mockrdige, Jay Blackton) [New Beverly]
JOE VS. THE VOLCANO (Georges Delerue) [New Beverly]
PICKUP ON SOUTH STREET (Leigh Harline), UNDERWORLD U.S.A. (Harry Sukman) [Cinematheque: Aero]
VIDEODROME (Howard Shore), EXISTENZ (Howard Shore) [Cinematheque: Egyptian]

August 26
THE NAKED KISS (Paul Dunlap), THE STEEL HELMET (Paul Dunlap) [Cinematheque: Aero]
UP IN SMOKE, HAROLD & KUMAR GO TO WHITE CASTLE (David Kitay) [New Beverly]