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HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON


• I mentioned this film in passing a few months ago, focusing how effective the use of 3-D was. This does the film a disservice, especailly as I have found out that it holds up quite well in a two dimensional high definition presentation. I can't deny that the 3-D element was used so well that the film does ( Read more... )

• Last year was my first journey to Radio City Music Hall to see Howard Shore's original score for the theatrical version of The Fellowship of the Ring performed with a live orchestra and choir to the film. This was part of a three-year cycle, and on Friday I attended again, this time for the theatrical version of The Two Towers.
  
  
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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... )

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• As I mentioned on Christmas Day, I found the long-awaited release of John Corigliano's score for Revolution to be a stunning work with a raw emotionality emerging from the composer's trademark harmonic sophistication. He also structures the score interestingly, with such touches as the way that " ( Read more... )

• My cousin was commenting about Christmas music that she was listening to a few days ago. I mentioned my old holiday season chestnut, Vince Guaraldi's A Charlie Brown Christmas (my exact words were something along the lines of "the music smells like pinecones") which then led to somebody reminding me that it has been over eleven years since I ( Read more... )

WILLIAM TELL OVERTURE
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ehowton!!!
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happy birthday
mals13!!!
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amblinx1138!!!I sat down yesterday afternoon and started idly playing with the various different Shaft albums I have, and before I knew it, it was the middle of the night and I had assembled a rough draft of the Shaft mix I was expecting to work on next week. The real hard part was selection and sequencing, but I didn't do much in the ( Read more... )

Hmmm... weird login issues tonight. Don't know what was up with that.

I'm tired but I can't sleep.

Jonathan at Music On Film has posted four more of my reviews, John Corigliano's Altered States, James Horner's Brainstorm, Maurice Jarre's Enemy Mine and the Goldsmith recording of Alex North's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?.