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Going through my collection I always find scores I rarely listen to and therefore have given a second chance now, enjoying them much more than ever. It´s like going through a used records bin, picking up some very cheap ones and being delighted by them.
Are you rediscovering scores in this time, just as one source of enjoyment of entertainment?
Here's my current list:
- MR. HOBBS TAKES A VACATION (Henry Mancini)
- CINDERELLA (Patrick Doyle)
- THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL (David Raksin)
- THE THIRTEENTH WARRIOR (Jerry Goldsmith)
- THE HAUNTING (Jerry Goldsmith)
- JANE EYRE (John Williams)
- THE RED PONY (Jerry Goldsmith)
- INCHON (Jerry Goldsmith)
- ALIEN RESURRECTION (John Frizzell)
- THE MATRIX REVOLUTIONS (Don Davis)
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Yes, of course, I do that currently (much more time to spend at home); I got a lot of scores I really enjoy (and enjoyed), but which I did not listen all that much to, or have not ín a long, long time.
I just listened to Alex North's THE RAINMAKER (haven lot listened to that in a long time). I have also been listening extensively to THE SWARM (first the Prometheus, then the LaLaLand), at least three or four times within the last couple of weeks, but that is a score I have known since the 1980s and really, really like, so it's not "rediscovering" in the sense that I did forget about it. Still, had been a long time since the last time I played it.
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Yes, of course, I do that currently (much more time to spend at home); I got a lot of scores I really enjoy (and enjoyed), but which I did not listen all that much to, or have not ín a long, long time.
I just listened to Alex North's THE RAINMAKER (haven lot listened to that in a long time). I have also been listening extensively to THE SWARM (first the Prometheus, then the LaLaLand), at least three or four times within the last couple of weeks, but that is a score I have known since the 1980s and really, really like, so it's not "rediscovering" in the sense that I did forget about it. Still, had been a long time since the last time I played it.
Right on!
I have been listening non-stop to the new LaLaLand release of "The Swarm" and after at least ten years of NOT having listened to it, it's a completely new score to me.
I have also been going over Bernstein's Mr. Majestyk, Craig Safan's unused "Wolfen", Barry's "The Last Valley" and Williams' "The Eiger Sanction" all of which it had been years since I last heard from. I am loving them now more than ever, and rekindling the feelings of hearing them first time, remembering why I fell in love with them in the first place.
Not a bad thing to do when you're on lockdown!
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I have been doing this since January: going through a stack of about 150 old red-spine Varese CDs in my spare room. Some have been pretty good, (RICH IN LOVE), some awful (OSCAR, A PERFECT MURDER, FREDDY'S DEAD), some have been perfactly pleasant listening but not good enough to make it to the main shelves (KINDERGARTEN COP, ONE TRUE THING, SWITCH, YEAR OF THE COMET, GOLD DIGGERS). No major rediscoveries, no forgotten masterpieces, but it's been nice to give them another spin after so long - they haven't been heard since I moved into this flat about twelve years ago. Then there's a smaller stack of white-spine Vareses and a smaller group of black-spines to work through, followed by several hundred more CDs from other labels. (No idea why I split the VS discs out.) Several that are in good condition I might sell or trade.
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Jul 11, 2020 - 4:48 AM
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Graham Watt
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Once one's collection gets fairly large - mine is "only" about 600, and that's just soundtracks, so far fewer than a lot of people here - I sometimes realise that there are a good number of scores that I never seem to be in the mood for - and that's without really "knowing" them. Maybe the cover design is ugly or something like that. There's something to be said for having a kind of system to play scores (for example) randomly. My brother is working through his huge LPs collection, and he does it by moving ahead, in alphabetical composer order, by the number of the date on the day of listening. So today if he listens to an LP, it'll be eleven along from the last one he played. Quite often he'll tell me that it was great, and that it was as if he'd never heard it before.
To answer the question more directly, although I'm still working my way through my recent batch of CDs which the fishmonger's daughter delivered (seven in total - it's taken me a month to really listen to the first four!), I recently listened to John Williams' LINCOLN, just because if I think too much about what I'm in the mood for, the hours go by, it's time for bed, and I'll have spent two hours staring at the shelves.
And to answer the question even more directly, LINCOLN. I'd forgotten how good it is.
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