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Why not The Secret of N.I.M.H.? It's 99% orchestral, neo-romantic and rated G.
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As others have said, there are precious few films that he scored which have enough wide appeal and, perhaps more to the point, still have wide appeal. Sure, something like The Mummy might have been popular at the time, but I'm not sure a huge number of people are necessarily clamouring to pay £60 to watch it with the score performed live.
While plenty of films he scored would be great to see, the clear winner for me is ST:TMP given that it's one of his best scores and there's long periods without much in the way of dialogue or sound effects. In reference to the comments about the blaster beam, at one of the concerts I saw him conduct in London, he performed a lengthy suite from ST:TMP (can't remember exactly and don't have the programme any more, but I'm guessing Main Theme, Klingon Battle, The Enterprise, The Cloud, V'Ger Flyover or some combination of those) and it included a blaster beam with the orchestra. It was at the Barbican (I think) and they even used the organ. It was pretty astonishing live. Don't think it would be impossible to get all that together at the Royal Albert Hall, which also has a massive organ (as it were). I guess the only thing missing might be the more subtle synth enhancements but I'm not sure you miss much without them. I reckon you could plausibly get together enough film music and Star Trek fans together to make it worthwhile... maybe.
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I guess the only thing missing might be the more subtle synth enhancements but I'm not sure you miss much without them.
On that note, RETURN OF THE JEDI played without choir at all so all the stuff with the Emperor and Vader & Luke fighting were choir-free.
But it was interesting for the Emperor's music because there is a high harp section of arpeggios that plays throughout which you don't hear on the album mix which favors the vocals. The harp section is really spooky, almost more so than the choir.
So even with some missing elements, the music still works quite well.
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Why not The Secret of N.I.M.H.? It's 99% orchestral, neo-romantic and rated G.
That's a great idea! And getting someone to re-perform the song would be less weird than all the (non-Goldsmith) songs having to be re-done live for Mulan.
Yavar
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When The Lion in Winter was shown at Carnegie Hall several years back with live music, I don't think they used a Moog synthesizer in the Main Titles.
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I would think that Paramount could commission a ‘Live-to-Film’ concert of ‘ST:TMP’ as a way to promote the 2022 HD/UHD disc release of ‘ST:TMP-Director’s Edition’.
Best we ever got was the concert at the Hollywood Bowl back in 2001 with Goldsmith and Wise in attendance to preview clips from the then upcoming Director's edition.
Today? I really don't think it would be much of a popular draw, not for a 42 year old talky 2hr movie with no "action" scenes.
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Why not The Secret of N.I.M.H.? It's 99% orchestral, neo-romantic and rated G.
I was going to reply the same. I think it’s fairly we’ll known, there is a ton of top drawer music in the film, and it fits the family requirement. One aspect that you’d have to account for is the use of choir, which you *might* be able to handle with a smaller vocal ensemble to keep some of the cost and rehearsal time down. I know I’d certainly go to this show!
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Why not The Secret of N.I.M.H.? It's 99% orchestral, neo-romantic and rated G.
That's a great idea! And getting someone to re-perform the song would be less weird than all the (non-Goldsmith) songs having to be re-done live for Mulan.
I thought about that one, Yavar, the vocals in Mulan, because it is one of the likelier candidates. If they were kept as recorded, separate from the music, those vocals could be left in the sound mix of the film. The synch requirements are technically the same as they are throughout the film, though it would be much less forgiving if the tempo got off at all during a song than, say during the asteroid field scene in Empire.
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