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Just had to add the great SITTING TARGET a kick ass score
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The Witches...
I actually just watched this film again the other day, and I must say Myers' score sits proudly among the best fantasy scores of the past 30 years -- which is saying a lot.
I would have to say The Witches also, but The Martian Chronicles is their to.
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What's that film that had James Mason doing an Australian accent, and a young Helen Mirren getting her kit off again on the beach? That had a great score by Myers. It almost didn't quite fit the film, but I love when individualistic geniuses just do their own thing on a movie. This one sounded sometimes as mad as a Basil Kirchin score!
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The Witches....classic...and a holy grail indeed
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Thanks Tone - AGE OF CONSENT was what I was thinking of. I had no idea that Peter Sculthorpe had done the original score. Anyway, this is all I could find of the Myers rescore - it's not indicative of the best, most madly inventive parts, but somebody might like it -
http://youtube.com/watch?v=iwSAQ_MK1xQ
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Feb 2, 2013 - 10:55 AM
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petergeeky
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Thanks Tone - AGE OF CONSENT was what I was thinking of. I had no idea that Peter Sculthorpe had done the original score. Anyway, this is all I could find of the Myers rescore - it's not indicative of the best, most madly inventive parts, but somebody might like it -
http://youtube.com/watch?v=iwSAQ_MK1xQ[/endquote
AGE OF CONSENT was recently screened on UK tv (Film4) in its original version, with different opening scenes and the Peter Sculthorpe score. I have a VHS which carries a credit for Sculthorpe on the box, but the actual movie has Stanley Myers' wonderfully evocative score. At the time of the film's UK release, James Mason appeared on Simon Dee's chat-show DEE TIME to promote the picture, and following a clip that was screened, pointed out to the viewers that "The music there is by Stanley Myers". Unforgettable comment.
My favourite scores - the truly innovative ULYSSES, NO WAY TO TREAT A LADY and the deeply moving RAGING MOON (LONG AGO TOMORROW), which also features the guitar of John Williams. I also have a soft spot for KALEIDOSCOPE, but was bitterly disappointed with the FSM CD which also contains Johnny Keating's HOTEL - both scores differ quite considerrably from the stereo albums and most of the tracks appear to be mono!
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Feb 3, 2013 - 11:49 AM
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ToneRow
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My favourite scores - the truly innovative ULYSSES, NO WAY TO TREAT A LADY and the deeply moving RAGING MOON (LONG AGO TOMORROW), which also features the guitar of John Williams. I also have a soft spot for KALEIDOSCOPE, but was bitterly disappointed with the FSM CD which also contains Johnny Keating's HOTEL - both scores differ quite considerrably from the stereo albums and most of the tracks appear to be mono!
I agree with you petergeeky.
If you got ULYSSES and RAGING MOON on LP, then you're definitely a Stanley Myers fan.
Since I created this thread, I may as well deposit my rankings on everything I have on Stanley Myers. In addition to the LPs and CDs, I'm including the films themselves (including titles on VHS as well as DVD) in my ratings. The scores by Myers that I like best have no soundtrack albums and can only be enjoyed by watching the movies.
Here comes the Stanley Cup! 
FOUR STANLEY CUPS
1. HOUSE OF MORTAL SIN (DVD) (aka THE CONFESSIONAL)
2. (THE BALLAD OF) TAM LIN (VHS) [aka THE DEVIL'S WIDOW)
3. INCUBUS (DVD)
4. ABSOLUTION (DVD)
5. THE WATCHER IN THE WOODS (DVD)
6. THE COMEBACK (DVD)
7. THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES (CD)
8. THE HOUSE OF WHIPCORD (DVD)
9. SCHIZO (DVD)
10. FRIGHTMARE (DVD)
11. SITTING TARGET (CD)
12. THE NIGHT OF THE FOLLOWING DAY (DVD)
13. ULYSSES (LP & DVD)
14. NO WAY TO TREAT A LADY (LP & DVD)
THREE STANLEY CUPS
15. EUREKA (DVD)
16. THE TORRENTS OF SPRING (CD)
17. THE WIND (DVD) (with Hans Zimmer)
18. CONDUCT UNBECOMING (DVD)
19. BLIND DATE (1984) (LP & DVD)
20. LADY CHATTERLEY'S LOVER (LP & DVD)
21. COLD HEAVEN (VHS & CD)
22. HISTOIRE d'O: CHAPITRE 2 (CD)
23. THE NEXT ONE (DVD) (aka THE TIME TRAVELER)
24. PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN (DVD)
25. THE RAGING MOON (LP & DVD) (aka LONG AGO TOMORROW)
26. VOYAGER (CD & DVD) (aka HOMO FABER)
27. THE WITCHES (1990) (DVD)
28. COUPE DE GRACE (DVD)
29. TRACK 29 (VHS)
30. CASTAWAY (1986) (LP & DVD)
31. THE DEER HUNTER (LP)
TWO STANLEY CUPS (brassieres by Bristols-Myers, anyone? B# or Bb?  )
32. IRON MAZE (DVD)
33. TAFFIN (DVD)
34. WISH YOU WERE HERE (DVD)
35. THE WILBY CONSPIRACY (DVD)
36. THE BLOCKHOUSE (DVD)
37. ROAD MOVIE (DVD)
38. BORDER COP (DVD)
39. PRICK UP YOUR EARS (LP & DVD)
40. MOONLIGHTING (DVD) (probably the beginning of the Myers/Zimmer relationship)
41. ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDERSTERN ARE DEAD (DVD)
42. INSIGNIFICANCE (LP & DVD)
43. X, Y AND ZEE (DVD)
ONE CUPPA
44. TROPIC OF CANCER (VHS)
45. KALEIDOSCOPE (LP & CD)
46. TRUSTING BEATRICE (CD) (aka CLAUDE)
47. OTLEY (LP)
[FYI: the rare British LP of TAKE A GIRL LIKE YOU is one by Myers that I never came across. In the late '80s, I did buy a cassette of PAPERHOUSE but not long afterwards discarded it because I didn't care for it at the time. I think PAPERHOUSE was more Zimmer and less Myers, IMO].
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Tone, I don't know the source of the AGE OF CONSENT piece that's up on the Tube. I just assumed it had been lifted directly from the film.
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PASSENGER 57 (the main title is one of my favorite themes) and most recently PAPERHOUSE
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PASSENGER 57 (the main title is one of my favorite themes) and most recently PAPERHOUSE
PASSENGER 57 is by Stanley Clarke, not Stanley Myers 
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Mar 31, 2013 - 4:48 PM
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ToneRow
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*DVD alert *
The only DOCTOR WHO serial for which Stanley Myers had written the incidental music - "The Reign Of Terror" - has been released on DVD by BBC.
Previously, 4 of the surviving episodes of this 6-part serial were issued onto VHS in 2003 in a boxed set with other WHO serials.
Now, in 2013, "The Reign Of Terror" gets a stand-alone release with its 2 missing segments animated & accompanied by audio recordings taped from TV broadcast transmissions.
This is the best presentation yet for this particular story, and my appreciation for the score by Myers has increased due to this DVD.
DOCTOR WHO fans seem to be wildly divergent in their responses to the music Stanley Myers provided.
Those who dislike the 'woodwind chamber music' approach to scoring WHO will no doubt disapprove of the score for "The Reign Of Terror", similar to the much-maligned Carey Blyton music for "The Silurians" from WHO's 7th season.
The typical melodramatic contributions for the series by Dudley Simpson are nowhere to be heard here.
I, on the other hand, am delighted by this early effort as it is refreshingly different from the customary incidental music that the program was to receive years ahead in its future.
Overall, the first season of DOCTOR WHO (1963-1964) had had a sequence of impressive composers to its benefit (like Tristram Cary and Richard Rodney Bennett) and the season finale by Stanley Myers only adds another feather onto the cap.
The performing ensemble for "The Reign Of Terror" sounds as if it is a wind sextet (piccolo, flute, clarinet, French horn, trumpet & saxophone) augmented by drums, harpsichord & vibes.
This arrangement may very well be the most 'classical' to be heard in WHO.
Sometimes instruments are heard solo. Episode #3 has a suspense sequence with no dialogue which offers Myers a rare WHO opportunity for his music to carry the scene.
Those familiar with the later film scores by Myers should be able to detect his 'fingerprints' all throughout his fledgling assignment. The contour of his themes, the phrasings - all these are recognizable Stanley Myers traits which make "The Reign Of Terror" sound much more like a typical Myers underscore than something like KALEIDOSCOPE (his first feature).
This 6-parter allows leeway for variety, and Myers takes full advantage of this opportunity to create music which ranges from sardonic renditions of the French national anthem to moments of some ominous treachery to ironic buffoonery.
Sounding like a wry neo-classical octet by Igor Stravinsky, Myers' music for "The Reign Of Terror" will not be to all tastes. Folks who are receptive to this approach should expect themselves to be in for a treat with this latest BBC DVD! Recommended to Whovians and Stanley Myers fans alike.
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Sorry old thread resurrection alert!
A while back I purchased an album called Sax Appeal (yes lovely cheezy title) which amongst other things contains Stanley Myers' saxophone concerto.
It's a really quite lovely thing and would sit rather nicely with Michael Kamen's saxophone concerto if asked to I'm sure.
Is anyone else familiar with the Myers Concerto? The CD also contains Richard Rodney Bennett's and Michael Torke's concertos of a saxophonic nature.....
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