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Feb 9, 2016 - 8:41 AM
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bobbengan
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Somehow I've never heard of that Colchester Symphony. I'll ask about it, and the other questions you guys posed!
His string quartets are good - If not on par with his film music. The first one is very jagged and avant garde, and the second one is a total contrast, lyrical and breezy and wistful. Haven't listened to the third on the CD he gave me yet. So far as I know, none of these were released.
I actually did ask about ROBIN HOOD in my first meeting and he's open to it. When it premiered in 2006, despite getting rave reviews and selling out to a packed house, the venue still couldn't recoup its money unfortunately. How, if at all, that will impact a possible recording is not known.
I'll ask about the Guitar Concerto. It's worth knowing that he was recently offered a chance to write a symphony for the Pasadena Symphony, which he's currently hashing out. Not sure if it would be recorded or not, but John made it pretty clear that he's going to make a concerted effort to get more stuff out there as far as concert works go.
I've told him he must must *must* look into getting HAREM released and he said he'd dig around and see if he has the tapes. Here's hoping. He had some great stories from the London recording sessions on that one about a hungover English Horn players having to deal with both a headache and some pretty complex music.
Not sure about the GREYSTOKE 2 CD complete score, but if nothing else I guess there's a chance I might be its singular owner soon!
I'll drop back later...
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..to soundtrackmusic..
He did a Colchester Symphony (for the city of Colchester) which was released on CD and is pretty easy to find, last time I checked.
Is that the one you mean?
edit to add link..
http://www.amazon.co.uk/John-Scott-A-Colchester-Symphony/dp/B002UJOFMS
Yep, that's the one. Had completely forgotten which city it was (I knew it was one I'd been to though).
Thanks for this. Aaaaand ... ordered!
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Hi,
Could you ask if JOS Records will release more new CDs and what titles?
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I was listening to his 'Odyssey of the Belem' last night.I hadn't played it in a while,I fancied a change.It's marvelous,him being allowed to flow and let it all develope.About six minutes into second tableau-fantastic!
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Mar 15, 2016 - 7:10 PM
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bobbengan
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bobbengan,
I wanted to write that it was absolutely wonderful to read your posts about meeting John Scott. Thank you very much for sharing. I'm very, very happy for how the meeting went. You're following an amazing dream, a dream that I very much share with you both as a fan of film music and as somebody who wishes to devote their life to making movies. Do keep us posted.
Thank you Dylan, I'm very glad to read this. It also reminds me - I totally forgot to follow-up about my second meeting with the guy!
I spent the evening with John Scott at his home on the Hollywood Hills about two weeks ago. He had advised that his American abode (he also owns homes in France and Britain) was a messy affair and really it was anything but. It was such an interesting insight getting to see his workspace especially - A grand piano near his porch that looks over Universal Studios far below. This is where he’s likely written some of our absolute favorite scores of his. We had lunch and listened to music, some his own, some by others. I watched him cry to a Benjamin Britten's Prelude to Requiem, an old favorite of his. His library of CDs is astoundingly large and voluminous. Almost purely classical albums, with few film scores at all. He even played for me a complete piano mock up of a piece he wrote for the Pasadena Symphony. Obviously I had to use my imagination, as hearing anywhere from five to twelve staves of piano lines playing orchestral parts reaches beyond my musical grasp. He’d occasionally narrate for me - “This part’s sumptuous, think Antony and Cleopatra”, that sort of thing. I probably spent five or six hours at his place. Just such good company, and such a life force this man has. Most of us would be too fortunate to still have as much oomph at age 85!
He's overseas at the moment, but we'll be getting up when he's back in town soon.
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Sources online indicate it was a long Camel cigarettes commercial.
Of hilarious note: the agency that represents him, lists it and notes it as being from the "King Kong Lives bootleg". I can't thinjk of ever seeing an agency resume note a bootleg before.
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Dec 11, 2016 - 8:49 PM
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bobbengan
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He really is a great guy. I wish you guys could have been a fly on the wall when we listened to, in its 26-minute entirety, his concert work inspired by George Melies' TRIP TO THE MOON. He was unaware the work had even been made commercially available (it's on iTunes and it's *amazing*) and it was so fun listening to his thoughts and "narration" as we listened - He'd only heard the piece once, as he conducted it live a few years back in France.
Likewise, listening to his mockup of his yet-to-be-performed "Pasadena Symphony" was quite a joy. It's fully written and mocked up in Logic (or maybe it was Sibelius, can't recall which program he used) and he knowing that I'm not a trained musician and couldn't readily pick out the lines and lines of activity being performed by the piano at one time, he'd narrate - "This is a slower sumptuous passage, think Antony and Cleopatra... Ah, and here, this is a big march, like some of the action music in King Kong Lives... but with a more valiant air." Stuff like that. It was such a fun window into this deeply creative man's mind and way of thinking.
I feel so lucky to call this gentle spirt and deeply humble man, whose music I've utterly revered since I stumbled upon it quite accidentally a number of years back, a friend now, too - And one who's a full 60 years my senior at that! I do wish I had been born just a decade earlier perhaps, so that our life times mgiht have had more overlap. Regardless, I'll cherish every moment to come.
The script I've mentioned earlier in this thread that John is attached to is making "the rounds" out here in LA. The feedback is generally extremely strong as both a story and for its originality, but it also seems to be the later that is cause for criticism, as the marketing of a project like this (essentially a hard sci-fi drama, but told and framed like a modern-day fairy tale) is tricky at best. There are some really exciting actors and companies reading it though through the holidays, and I look forward to updating you all, as I can, about the project's gradual motion forward.
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Jan 9, 2017 - 8:21 PM
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edwzoomom
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He really is a great guy. I wish you guys could have been a fly on the wall when we listened to, in its 26-minute entirety, his concert work inspired by George Melies' TRIP TO THE MOON. He was unaware the work had even been made commercially available (it's on iTunes and it's *amazing*) and it was so fun listening to his thoughts and "narration" as we listened - He'd only heard the piece once, as he conducted it live a few years back in France.
Likewise, listening to his mockup of his yet-to-be-performed "Pasadena Symphony" was quite a joy. It's fully written and mocked up in Logic (or maybe it was Sibelius, can't recall which program he used) and he knowing that I'm not a trained musician and couldn't readily pick out the lines and lines of activity being performed by the piano at one time, he'd narrate - "This is a slower sumptuous passage, think Antony and Cleopatra... Ah, and here, this is a big march, like some of the action music in King Kong Lives... but with a more valiant air." Stuff like that. It was such a fun window into this deeply creative man's mind and way of thinking.
I feel so lucky to call this gentle spirt and deeply humble man, whose music I've utterly revered since I stumbled upon it quite accidentally a number of years back, a friend now, too - And one who's a full 60 years my senior at that! I do wish I had been born just a decade earlier perhaps, so that our life times mgiht have had more overlap. Regardless, I'll cherish every moment to come.
The script I've mentioned earlier in this thread that John is attached to is making "the rounds" out here in LA. The feedback is generally extremely strong as both a story and for its originality, but it also seems to be the later that is cause for criticism, as the marketing of a project like this (essentially a hard sci-fi drama, but told and framed like a modern-day fairy tale) is tricky at best. There are some really exciting actors and companies reading it though through the holidays, and I look forward to updating you all, as I can, about the project's gradual motion forward.
This is fascinating bobb. I am looking forward to an update. Btw, is the Greystoke 2 cd info referring to an expanded release? We can only dream.
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Well, if it ever gets picked up and greenlite, let me know the title and I'll try to start an IMDb page for it.
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