Listen to this track from Elmer Bernstein's "Staccato" LP on Capitol.
It sounds uncannily like Kenyon Hopkins in its use of harmonizing the melody with ascending or descending major thirds.
Elsewhere on this board, I wrote that Kenyon Hopkins managed to convey a sense of cool modernism by using chords stacked in thirds, whereas stacking chords in fourths was in vogue at the time and very much a hallmark of modernism.
I only got this initially because John Williams plays the piano. But I've since come to enjoy it for what is. I only have 11 minutes, though. Was the soundtrack longer than that?
I only got this initially because John Williams plays the piano. But I've since come to enjoy it for what is. I only have 11 minutes, though. Was the soundtrack longer than that?
Ah, yes, now I remember. I have it on an ol' CD-R. When I was going to transfer it to my iTunes a few years ago (back when laptops had CD trays), it ripped several of the tracks wrong, so I only got 11 working minutes.
Anyways....Kenyon Hopkins. I can't really comment on that. Beyond 12 ANGRY MEN and a few others, my relationship to him is limited.
