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I have enjoyed Leonard Rosenman's music for a long time... I think the first scores of his I noticed where the James Dean double (EAST OF EDEN/REBELL WITHOUT A CAUSE) and then, long time ago, when I saw FANTASTIC VOYAGE when I was 13. It was about at that time that I became really interested in film music, but also modern classical music, in stuff by Stravinsky, Bartók, Schönberg, and to this day, I love to dive into really spiky, thorny music, provided it is worth it, when it is really done with excellence and thought out. (No film music has offended my musical sensibilities ever as much as ANGIE did, and I say this as a real admirer of Jerry Goldsmith. But, give me thorny, spiky, whatever music over banality any time.)
Some people may find this odd, and that's okay, but I find music like some of Boulez' music deeply relaxing and profoundly tranquilizing too.
Leonard Rosenman is -- like Alex North -- one of my favorite all time film composers.
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By the way, two Rosenman scores this year for the suites I do. One is a western (strictly speaking) and will be a special presentation suite (not what I normally do), and the other will drop the last week of May in honor of our men who fought in battle for Memorial Day.
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I have just noticed that Leonard Rosenman is credited as a composer on the Steve McQueen movie "An Enemy Of The People", obviously based on an Ibsen play. Sounds as a curious combination but there is no mention of this title anywhere in the thread.
Does anyone know the film or score ?
I'm watching it now and liking the change of pace: a quiet-ish drama, and a subdued Rosenman.
I find this score remarkable because I hear none of his typical harmonic and melodic sounds.
Perhaps this would be a good one for Thor to try, since it's unlike any of LR's other stuff.
Could someone ask Thor's butler to get a message to him? 
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I remember years ago, some time in the early 1990s... I zapped TV, and on one channel, there was an adaptation of ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE. I knew the play quite well, I had actually played Peter Stockmann in a school project adaptation just a few years prior, when we had read the play in class. The lead actor looked strangely familiar, until I suddenly realized: WTF, that is Steve McQueen? I don't know how long it took me to recognize him, seconds, maybe a minute or so, not that long, but I never forget how surprised I was to see ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE and while I stuck with it suddenly recognized Steve McQueen in the lead role. (Charles Durning played Peter Stockmann, but him I recognized right away.)
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Bobby Roth and Paul Haslinger likes him.
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I'm here, and it would be interesting to check out (also for the Ibsen connection -- I was raised in a town where Ibsen spent his younger years, and my parents owned a house for a while that Ibsen sometimes frequented). But does it have a soundtrack release?
No, dearie, you'll have to watch the movie.
AFTER YOU WATCH PETULIA, PLEASE!
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(Charles Durning played Peter Stockmann, but him I recognized right away.)
Impossible NOT to recognize, just like Richard Dysart.
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Those cd's ain't in alphabetical order.
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By the way, two Rosenman scores this year for the suites I do. One is a western (strictly speaking) and will be a special presentation suite (not what I normally do), and the other will drop the last week of May in honor of our men who fought in battle for Memorial Day.
Announce them in this thread!
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