I had ordered a couple of items before the strike that came during. It was nice to get a bit of music every once and a while to lighten the mood a bit from time to time. There have also been some very interesting rumblings on the boards of late as to what will be coming soon from Intrada… if it is what many think it is, there will be some more ( Read more... )

This is it. This is the BIG ONE. I've had other holy grails, but this is the one that forever remained a pie in the sky that was way too high. Other, vastly inferior scores enjoyed release after release. Bootlegs abounded, but in horrific sound quality, featuring tape hiss you couldn't cut through with a chainsaw and a ground hum so loud you may as ( Read more... )

The idea of making a compilation built around hunting music was one that had been kicking around for a while, but only really became solidified with the Varèse Sarabande release of John Corigliano's Revolution, with its energetic fox hunt sequence. A few months ago I asked for suggestions from the good folks over at the Film Score Monthly Message ( Read more... )

• The fall of spam
  
  I was surprised at how many people responded to yesterday's post about autumn in the city. This is really one of my favorite times of the year, Hallowe'en is right around the corner with Thanksgiving not far off and it is nice to know that I'm not the only person who feels that way


• Speaking of seasonal changes……Au Bon Pain has a ( Read more... )

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Over the past few weeks, I've received quite a lot of music. Franz Waxman's Anne of the Indies, Pino Donaggio's Hercules, Jerry Goldsmith's The Burbs, Elmer Bernstein's Cannon for Cordoba/From Noon Till Three, Bruce Broughton's The Master of Ballantrae, Bill Conti's F/X and the Don Ellis/Johnny Mandel twofer (threefer) of The Seven Ups and The ( Read more... )

For your enjoyment, I present the striking entrances of the leading lady from two of Alfred Hitchcock's greatest films! Hitch's alter-ego James Stewart appears in both, but he is playing very different characters and the situations are radically different. The clip from Vertigo also features an iconic cue from Herrmann's score, with nascent ( Read more... )

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