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Morituri/Raid on Entebbe (1965/1977) |
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Music by Jerry Goldsmith, David Shire |
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Line: Silver Age |
CD Release:
August 2001
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Catalog #: Vol. 4, No. 12 |
# of Discs: 1 |
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This CD is an action/suspense doubleheader from the riches of the Twentieth Century Fox vaults, comprised of a mid-'60s feature film score by Jerry Goldsmith, showing off the best, astringent attitude of his television music, and a television movie score by David Shire, for a production with feature film ambitions. Each story involves in some way the powerful interactions of nations and the plight of refugees, told with a lean, ascetic sensibility.
Morituri is an obscure but interesting 1965 suspense film starring Marlon Brando as a German deserter blackmailed into accepting an undercover mission as a Gestapo officer on board a freighter during World War II, with Yul Brynner as the ship's tough but sympathetic captain. From this simple premise the film evolves into a complex story of moral ambiguities, torn allegiances and twisted loyalties. Jerry Goldsmith seized upon these tortured undercurrents to provide a gritty, dynamic score that expanded upon his best adventure music for television (The Man from U.N.C.L.E., "Jonah and the Whale" from Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea) and placed it in the expanding scale of his feature film work (The Satan Bug). Taking his cue from The Third Man, Goldsmith wrote a main theme for solo zither -- sad, mysterious and Eastern European—which, as always for the composer, becomes the hook on which the entire score is hung.
Morituri is presented on this CD in complete form, including music cut from the film. For the first time, the score has been remixed to stereo allowing the composer's aggressive, ostinato-based action music to blast through the way it was meant to be heard—with low-end piano, electric bass and harpsichord adding to Goldsmith's indelible style. (A previous, unauthorized CD release of Morituri was in hissy mono and lacked the zither overdubs for all of the interior scoring.)
Raid on Entebbe was a 1977 telefilm (released theatrically overseas) about a daring hostage rescue carried out by Israeli commandos at the Entebbe airfield in Uganda in summer 1976. Irvin Kershner (The Empire Strikes Back) directed a skilled cast including Peter Finch, Charles Bronson, Yaphet Kotto, Martin Balsam, Horst Buchholz and a young James Woods in a documentary-style telling of the hijacking and rescue of the Israeli passengers. Scoring the production was David Shire, who had cemented his reputation as one of the most intelligent and sensitive composers to work in the 1970s (The Conversation, The Taking of Pelham One-Two-Three, All the President's Men). Shire's sparse score deftly underscores the threat of the terrorists, the anguish of the hostages and the celebration of their return (the last cue featuring an authentic Israeli folksong).
Most notably Shire wrote a pulsating, aggresive theme for the Israeli commandos which is the best—and possibly the only—example of "Jewish action music" in the history of film, with four pianos beefing up the bassline. For this premiere album release, Shire has assembled a four-movement suite of his score to best program the music for independent listening; the action music is collected as "The Raid." The suite is presented in clean mono sound.
Morituri and Raid on Entebbe—together again for the first time! |
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Track List |
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Click on track TIME for MP3 sound clip. Click on track title (selected tracks only) for Real Audio. Morituri Music Composed by Jerry Goldsmith, Conducted by Lionel Newman - Main Title/Tokyo 2:11
- Assignment in Macao 2:02
- Bon Voyage/Hot Wire 3:38
- Boat Drill 1:15
- What to Do Next 1:03
- Theme from Morituri 1:46
- A Change of Fate/Sneak Attack 1:53
- Nine Days Out 1:36
- Traffic Jam/Caught in the Act 4:49
- Boarding Party 1:04
- The Meeting 0:57
- The Prisoners 2:44
- Change of Command/Prepare for Mutiny 4:30
- A Lost Cause 1:34
- A Change of Heart 2:08
- Break Out 3:07
- Abandoned Ship 3:58
- End Title 1:14
Total Time: 41:46 Raid on Entebbe Music Composed and Conducted by David Shire - The Hijacking 4:09
- The Imprisonment 3:38
- The Raid 4:41
- The Return 2:58
Total Time: 15:29 Total Disc Time: 57:50 |
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Instruments/Musicians |
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For more specific musician lists for the scores on this album, go here: |
Morituri |
Raid on Entebbe |
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Leader (Conductor): Lionel Newman, David L. Shire
Violin: Victor Arno, Israel Baker, George Berres, Joachim Chassman, Kurt Dieterle, Adolph DiTullio, Anatol Kaminsky, Nathan Kaproff, Louis Kaufman, Marvin Limonick, Paul Lowenkron, Erno Neufeld, Irma W. Neumann, Lou Raderman, Paul C. Shure, Marshall Sosson
Viola: Myer Bello, Alvin Dinkin, Cecil Figelski, Phillip Goldberg, Allan Harshman, Virginia Majewski, Alex Neiman, Robert Ostrowsky, Sven Reher, Paul Robyn, David Schwartz
Cello: Paul Bergstrom, Joseph Coppin, Joseph DiTullio, Armand Kaproff, Raphael "Ray" Kramer, Edgar Lustgarten, Frederick R. Seykora, Eleanor Slatkin
Bass: Charles C. Berghofer, Milton Kestenbaum, Peter A. Mercurio, Meyer (Mike) Rubin, Kenneth Winstead
Flute: Arthur Hoberman, Luella Howard, Sheridon W. Stokes
Oboe: Norman Benno, Gene Cipriano, Gordon Pope
Clarinet: Russell Cheever, Abe Most, William A. Ulyate
Bassoon: Don Christlieb, Jack Marsh, Ray Nowlin
Woodwinds: Don Ashworth, Gene Cipriano, John Lowe, Sheridon W. Stokes
French Horn: John W. "Jack" Cave, Vincent N. DeRosa, David A. Duke, William A. Hinshaw, Arthur Maebe, Jr., Richard E. Perissi, Gale H. Robinson, Harry Schmidt
Trumpet: John Clyman, Don Fagerquist, Robert Fowler, Malcolm Boyd McNab, Anthony "Tony" Terran, Graham Young, Rubin Zarchy
Trombone: John Bambridge, Sr., Clarence "Pete" Carpenter, Ray Klein, Richard "Dick" Nash, George M. Roberts, Lloyd E. Ulyate
Tuba: John T. "Tommy" Johnson
Piano: Artie Kane, Urban Thielmann
Keyboards: Caesar Giovannini, Ralph E. Grierson, Michael A. Lang, Clark Spangler
Guitar: Robert F. Bain, Thomas "Tommy" Tedesco
Harp: Dorothy S. Remsen, Anne Stockton (Mason)
Zither: Johann X. Estermann
Accordion: Frank Marocco
Drums: Ralph Collier, Richard Cornell, Harold L. "Hal" Rees
Percussion: Larry Bunker, Peter Limonick, Joe Porcaro, Emil Radocchia (Richards)
Orchestrator: Alexander Courage, Ralph Ferraro, Jack J. Hayes, Dale R. McMickle
Arranger: Arthur Morton
Contractor: Nathan Kaproff
Copyist: Louis M. Behm, Robert Bornstein, Gene Bren, Glen N. Clement, Jack Dulong, Emmet L. Estren, Alexander Gerens, Caesar Giovannini, Wally Heglin, Dale R. McMickle, Ernest Rosecrans, Terry C. Woodson
Librarian: Fred Combattente
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