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Anyone know who wrote the liner notes for the Encore?
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Apr 1, 2019 - 3:52 PM
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dogplant
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Anyone know who wrote the liner notes for the Encore?
Robert Townsend wrote the liner notes for the Varese Encore "Raggedy Man" disc.
I've been enjoying the album, and the reminiscences in this thread. I saw the movie years ago, was not familiar with the score, and missed the 1990s CD release, so I was keen to snap it up. I was quite surprised at the diversity in the music, swinging between gentle "Patch of Blue" lyricism, some pretty scary atonal stuff, and South American tunes. One detail that eluded me, and Robert does not identify in his notes, is the name of the traditional Mexican folk song, apparently dialed out of the movie, which appears on Track 6 of the Varese Encore release, listed simply as 'Mexican Tune.'
I happened to recently attend a folkloric dance recital, which include a performance of this song, so I instantly recognized the piece as, 'La Llorna' (you might have seen that name recently at movie theaters and bus shelters near you, advertising the horror film "The Curse of La Llorna"). The song recounts a legend resembling a Mexican banshee, a harbinger of doom, representing the spirit of a bereaved woman who is cursed to wander the Earth until she locates her two dead sons.
Some info about the legend here:
http://legendsofamerica.com/HC-WeepingWoman1.html
Another version, with guitar and vocals by Evin Phoenix here:
https://youtu.be/OsqAEaQz9OE
Not sure how Goldsmith planned to use this song in the context of the film, but I thought it was an interesting choice as an addition to the score, as there are parallels to the "Raggedy Man" narrative, with Sissy Spacek struggling to rear her two boys. And, it is a lovely waltz.
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Anyone know who wrote the liner notes for the Encore?
Robert Townsend wrote the liner notes for the Varese Encore "Raggedy Man" disc.
I've been enjoying the album, and the reminiscences in this thread. I saw the movie years ago, was not familiar with the score, and missed the 1990s CD release, so I was keen to snap it up. I was quite surprised at the diversity in the music, swinging between gentle "Patch of Blue" lyricism, some pretty scary atonal stuff, and South American tunes. One detail that eluded me, and Robert does not identify in his notes, is the name of the traditional Mexican folk song, apparently dialed out of the movie, which appears on Track 6 of the Varese Encore release, listed simply as 'Mexican Tune.'
I happened to recently attend a folkloric dance recital, which include a performance of this song, so I instantly recognized the piece as, 'La Llorna' (you might have seen that name recently at movie theaters and bus shelters near you, advertising the horror film "The Curse of La Llorna"). The song recounts a legend resembling a Mexican banshee, a harbinger of doom, representing the spirit of a bereaved woman who is cursed to wander the Earth until she locates her two dead sons.
Some info about the legend here:
http://legendsofamerica.com/HC-WeepingWoman1.html
Another version, with guitar and vocals by Evin Phoenix here:
https://youtu.be/OsqAEaQz9OE
Not sure how Goldsmith planned to use this song in the context of the film, but I thought it was an interesting choice as an addition to the score, as there are parallels to the "Raggedy Man" narrative, with Sissy Spacek struggling to rear her two boys. And, it is a lovely waltz.
I was going to post about this, since I found it amusing that someone just generically slapped the title "Mexican Tune" on a very famous Mexican folk song.
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I thought folks here might be interested in a rundown of the complete cue list as revealed in the entry for this score's music sketches in the Academy library online...
http://collections.new.oscars.org/Details/Archive/71303004
1-1 "Main Title," 3 pages
[1-2?] [no title], 5 pages [lacks first page]
2-1 "Watching," 2 pages
3-1/4-1 "Phone Calls (Section A)," 2 pages
3-1/4-1 "Phone Calls (Section B)," 9 pages
4-2 "We Like Him," 3 pages
5-1 "Carnival," 4 pages
5-4 "Bus Ride," 2 pages
7-1 "Henry and Harry," 5 pages
7-2/8-1 "Runaways," 9 pages
9-1 "We're Moving," 7 pages
9-2 "The Kite," 1 page
9-3 "Number Please," 9 pages
10-1 "The End of Calvin," 12 pages
Roger Feigelson of Intrada said he noticed a short 10-15 second insert in one cue in the film that was unreleased, but that that was *it* for unreleased music in the film that he noticed. Now here we have a mysterious second cue of five pages' length (although the first page is lost so we don't know the title). But I don't see the album's "End Title" represented here, so perhaps that is the correct identity of that cue. But the bolded cues are also titles that aren't on the album. Does anyone know if those cues are folded into some of the album tracks and simply not referred to in the titles? (For example, the album cue "The Kite" runs almost 5 minutes long which doesn't jive with its stated length of one written page, here.) Or are some of these at least actual substantial unreleased cues from this score, which perhaps went unused in the film?
Yavar
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