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LOG IN Forgot Login? Register General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board Search Terms:  Search Within:  topics posts since 2019 2018 posts 2017 posts 2016 posts 2015 posts 2014 posts 2013 posts 2012 posts 2011 posts 2010 posts 2009 posts 2008 posts 2007 posts 2006 posts 2005 posts 2004 posts 2003 posts 2002 posts 2001 posts 2000 posts users  search tips  You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1      General Discussion: Daniele Amfitheatrof - "Bird of Paradise"   Last Post   Posted:   Nov 26, 2021 - 1:41 PM     By:   Ron Pulliam   (Member) One of my favorite experiences in the early years of NBC's Saturday Night at the Movies was seeing films from the 20th Century-Fox library I had never heard of or seen. One was "Bird of Paradise" which enthralled me from beginning to end. The beautiful photography and the tale of a Frenchman falling in love with a beautiful island girl was terrific, especially given that there was a forbidding witch doctor and a volcano to muddle the proceedings. Louis Jourdan, Jeff Chandler and Debra Paget were wonderful, IMO, but it was the glorious photography and the atmospheric and beautiful score by Daniele Amfitheatrof that really made the film memorable for me. I was ecstatic when the soundtrack was released by Varese Sarabande. This cue is called "Tenga Returns". Tenga was the Chandler character and he returns to the island with his friend portrayed by Jourdan. I think it's a progressive score for 1951...and remarkably performed by the 20th Century-Fox studio orchestra.    Posted:   Nov 26, 2021 - 5:17 PM     By:   ZardozSpeaks   (Member) Tenga da´nke Daniele. An aural paradise ... that's not for the birds! Thus far in my Amfitheatrof odyssey, Bird of Paradise is my favorite - residing, as it does, within my Top 25 soundtracks. Never saw this movie, but the VS Club CD is regularly listened-to thanks to the advanced chromatic writing of D.A. Being a follower (in my parallel classical music appreciation) of compositions by Karol Szymanowski, I'm enamored by Daniele's florid harmonic vernacular. If one is receptive toward this film score, then one might also like Loek Dikker's The 4th Man even though there is no connection between the two.    Posted:   Nov 28, 2021 - 6:47 AM     By:   Ron Pulliam   (Member) Here is a generous sampling of all the music on soundtrack:    Posted:   Nov 29, 2021 - 11:06 AM     By:   John B. Archibald   (Member) Wonder if Alfred Newman contributed to this. As I recall, “Kalua,” the love theme, was used in Newman’s concept album, “The Magic Islands.”     General Discussion: Daniele Amfitheatrof - "Bird of Paradise"    < 1  >   Go to page:  1   First Post    General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1

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