How does he count the first two -- the Othello symphony and Symphony in G Minor? The first is an adaption, after all.
Still a symphony. And hardly the first composer to adapt an incidental work to a symphony -- just off the top of my head, Prokofiev also did it with a ballet and Vaughan-Williams with a film score....and hell even back in the day Mozart made symphonies out of some of his serenades (through they are rarely included among his 'proper' symphonies)
How does he count the first two -- the Othello symphony and Symphony in G Minor? The first is an adaption, after all.
The 'Symphony in G# Minor' is an adaptation too - big chunks of 'Final Fantasy' and 'Sphere' in there.
The list could go on and on…the mother of all film scores turned into concert works would be the Korngold Violin Concerto. The third movement of Philip Glass’s Seventh is from Powaqqatsi. The theme in movement 1 of Elfman’s violin concerto is from Justice League. Corigliano’s Red Violin Concerto; Nyman’s The Piano Concerto; Rozsa’s Spellbound Concerto, James Newton Howard’s Cello Concerto is from Red Sparrow, bits of Goldsmith’s Christus Apollo are in Chinatown; Morricone’s The Mission reappears in his Voci dal Silenzio and Mass for John Paul II…with all this re-use it’s kinda amazing that the king of re-use and liberal “quotation,” Horner, didn’t really use found objects for his two concertos. John Williams’ Elegy…The release of Don Davis’ Pain this week has some Matrix in it for sure…some of that migrated over into the movie:
Heck John Adams’ Harmonielehre’s third movement is stolen from his ballet Light Over Water. I’m all for creative reuse.
Reminds me of late Shostakovich symphonies, with the singer(s) and is about as easy to listen to. Could use some tempo contrasts but it remains mostly slow and dour all the way through.
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I don't think that it is possible to view it without signing up. There wasn't a fee when I signed up, so I doubt it that there is one now.
As for the work itself... I almost forgot about it, and I am a Goldenthal completist. I remember not enjoying it that much, as one poster wrote, it was mostly slow and dour all the way through. Not one of my favorite Goldenthal works.
Good that there's not a fee, but I don't need to sign up to any more things at the moment. I must have about a gazillion subscription thingies running, and I get loads of ads whenever I do. I'll stay patient for a bit more. 'Slow' and 'dour', however, sounds interesting to me. I've grown somewhat tired of the big and busy and epic.
Can one view this without signing up? For those of you have signed up, is there a fee?
I don't think that it is possible to view it without signing up. There wasn't a fee when I signed up, so I doubt it that there is one now.
As for the work itself... I almost forgot about it, and I am a Goldenthal completist. I remember not enjoying it that much, as one poster wrote, it was mostly slow and dour all the way through. Not one of my favorite Goldenthal works.
Yes, why didn’t he write an upbeat work about a mother’s son being arrested, beaten, and murdered by an authoritarian govt.
