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Sounded different to my ears, on the Criterion DVD. I could be wrong though. Thanks!
I believe Robert Townson explains this in the book.
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May's edition of Empire magazine has a whole chunk on Kubrick films (part two) - including a spread on Spartacus by Ian Nathan, with quotes from Christianne Kubrick.
It covers stuff on Mann, Douglas, and Kubrick wanting to be free of contractual debts after paths of glory, a little on Olivier and Laughton, a few other bits. Also comments on how each of the main players saw what the film represented to them.
Nice pic of Kubrick and Douglas in what looks like the gladiators eating area.
Probably the Spartacus experts on here will know it all, but thought I should flag it up.
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I passed on this one.
I would buy a 3-Disc Set of the Stereo Score and Mono Complete Score for 25-30 dollars but no more then that.
Hell, if in 10 years Intrada releases it as a 3 Disc Set for 19.99 like they did with THE GREAT ESCAPE I'd buy it! And who knows, maybe the complete score in Stereo can be discovered.
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During this period [the 1990's], composer Jerry Goldsmith became well-known for physically smashing bootleg CDs presented to him to sign.
Herrmann did this too: he'd whack across them with a stick.
How could he whack bootleg C.D.s? He died in 1975, eight years before C.D.s came out.
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During this period [the 1990's], composer Jerry Goldsmith became well-known for physically smashing bootleg CDs presented to him to sign.
Herrmann did this too: he'd whack across them with a stick.
How could he whack bootleg C.D.s? He died in 1975, eight years before C.D.s came out.
That may be so about cd's but there were indeed bootleg LP's to whack!
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I'm still waiting for a clearance sale on these ridiculous things.
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I agree they took the music to new places, but, whilst North used jazz, he also was very good at fugue style, like Rosenman.
Jeeze! That reminds me of the time I suggested to Lenny that he utilized the fugue style in his film scores. He shot me a look!
Of all the film composers I've known, only with John Addison and especially Lalo Schifrin could I bring up things I heard in there music, discuss it with them intelligently and get back a sense they understood what I meant and acknowledged it. With others such as Goldsmith, Rosenman, Raksin and Elmer Bernstein, the total opposite was the case. One day I asked Goldsmith how he managed to compose with such a varied style - with each score bringing about a new, fresh approach. I explained that his lack of a strong recognizable style was his strength as a film composer. He became quite perturbed saying he DID have a definite style and I must not be a good listener if I couldn't pick up on it! Go figure!
I have the feeling had I asked him why his music all sounded similar he'd have been equally pissed. That day he seemed generally pissed at everything. He was recording his score at Fox for the Mel Gibson film "Forever Young" and was making remarks on what a dump the scoring stage was and why didn't Fox have it cleaned up before he arrived.
I'll never forget the time I fist met him and then told him that I'd just gotten his score for "Freud" on LP. He went through the roof cursing Tony Thomas a blue streak for issuing it without his permission. Jerry had quite a temper.
Even worse is that the "Desperate Case" cue on the L.P. was a poorly recorded alternate version, and not the one heard in the film or the one tracked in "Alien". Even worse on the Varese Club edition of "Freud", the cue ends with a flurry of string trill and not the thundering basses in the film. Hopefully this will be corrected in a future edition.
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I received this set recently as a gift (thanks, bro!) and I'm working my way through it slowly and with great deliberation and I can say with 100% certainty that it is not ridiculous. What it is is the greatest tribute to a film composer, and score, ever assembled. Just today I listened to the first disc of variations/versions of the love theme and while I was prepared to be bored with it before the end of the disc, I found instead that I was fascinated, and even moved - a testament to the durability of North's brilliant theme. Robert Townson has done a marvelous and admirable thing in putting together this love letter to Alex North. I'm loving every minute of it.
My only problem is that I have no choice in the matter of having the ENTIRE set when all I want is the first three disc.
Certainly two option could have been made and I'm sure would have sold more units.
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How could he whack bootleg C.D.s? He died in 1975, eight years before C.D.s came out.
He whacked bootleg vinyls this way, if anyone presented them for signing. They came with boots, they left without .... like the Turkish garrison at Aquaba.
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I received this set recently as a gift (thanks, bro!) and I'm working my way through it slowly and with great deliberation and I can say with 100% certainty that it is not ridiculous. What it is is the greatest tribute to a film composer, and score, ever assembled. Just today I listened to the first disc of variations/versions of the love theme and while I was prepared to be bored with it before the end of the disc, I found instead that I was fascinated, and even moved - a testament to the durability of North's brilliant theme. Robert Townson has done a marvelous and admirable thing in putting together this love letter to Alex North. I'm loving every minute of it.
That was Mr. Townson's intention, and he should be respected for it. He did his tribute to a composer friend in the way he thought was fitting, as he had done earlier with his Goldsmith box set.
I am hoping that perhaps a TEN COMMANDMENTS score restoration/tribute to Elmer Bernstein is not too far off the horizon.
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He whacked bootleg vinyls this way, if anyone presented them for signing. They came with boots, they left without .... like the Turkish garrison at Aquaba.
good one william.
slightly mad point but my auntie went to Aqaba recently.
She was on a cruise of Nile etc and Aqaba was one of the venues visited.
I asked her if the Turkish guns still faced out to sea and didn't cover an attack from the desert.
She wasnt sure what I was on about!
apparently not much history about all that there - wasnt mentioned in the guided tour.
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