Please delete if this is a repeat thread, but I ran a google search and it turned up nothing on this, Newman’s latest score for Sam Mendes’s latest film.
The movie just screened in New York and both film and score are getting raves.
Yeah, it you click on more information in the description, Youtube has tagged it with being exactly what the title of the video says it is. This is not Newman (thank goodness).
I hope for the best, but consider where many (maybe most) of his scores have been going for over ten years now, I tend to think the reviewers are over hyping (which wouldn't be a first time; and other times they lay praise on garbage scores). Anyway, I hope to be wrong.
Most are taken down at some point within the first quarter of the year, so just after the Oscars broadcast. You’ll occasionally find a straggler here and there, though.
Most are taken down at some point within the first quarter of the year, so just after the Oscars broadcast. You’ll occasionally find a straggler here and there, though.
Listening to the score on Amazon Prime. Given the positive mention of the score in the reviews thus far, I was expecting a bit more. But, there are some definite stand out cues. The CD as released is 19 track and 77 minutes.
Apart from a similar build, I just don't buy that the cue "Sixteen Hundred Men" ("Devons to MacKenzie" on the FYC site) is a ripoff of "Journey to the Line."
Obviously, I need to see how the score plays in the movie. Still, I think this one will grow on me with repeat listens.
Not sure about this one. It's a long time since I felt I was wasting my time listening to something - especially by Newman - but this was a long slog. Especially at that length!
I really admire his intellectual approach to film scoring and gain fresh perspective on the composer's task with each new interview he does. If you have a chance, check out the recent Q and A Newman did with Sam Mendes (after a recent "1917" screening) as well as Daniel's informative "On The Score" one-on-one.
I wish he would be approached by Masterclass as any course "taught" by him, someone with the solid academic training coupled with an explorer's thirst for (musical) discovery," would be of great benefit to any aspiring composer.