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Topic: Great Choral Works for Film
H Rocco
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Heh ... my mom rented THE LION IN WINTER last night, and I happened to wander in while the main title was running ... instantly started whistling along, just out of reflex. Took her a bit by surprise ("you know THIS one too?")Mr. InSanDiego already mentioned the first POLTERGEIST, and POLTERGEIST II also has some amazing, harsh declamatory versions of the evil Reverend's hymn "God Is In His Holy Temple" (not to be confused with the actual Southern spiritual of the same name -- same lyrics for all I know, but I heard a version of it in person that is utterly different from Goldsmith's.) It's absolutely my favorite part of that score, so you can imagine how maddened I was to pick up the (30 minute!) LP in 1986 and discover that NONE of that music was on it ...
posted 04-05-2000 07:44 PM PT (US) Valere
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O.K. how about 1985's Young Sherlock Holmes? On the album the cue "Waxing Elizabeth" The Ramitep theme?
posted 04-06-2000 02:18 AM PT (US) Dan Brecher
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I always liked Stargate's little Choral bits.Dan (UK)
posted 04-06-2000 05:22 AM PT (US) SBD
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How about "Meet Mr. Spender" and "On the Trail" from THE STUPIDS. Listening to these tracks, you'd never guess that they were written for a comedy.
posted 04-06-2000 08:36 AM PT (US) Howard L
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What makes Invaders From Mars stand out is that the choral music was actually more of a choral sound effect. It was an other-worldly blare that was emitted whenever the sandpit opened to kidnap an earthling. Pretty bone-chilling stuff. The only other similar usage that comes to mind is that employed 15 years later for the black monolith in 2001. Anyway, the sound effect in Invaders was transformed into a fantastic conventional choral piece to underscore the extended flashback near the picture's climax.Another (somewhat) non-traditional use of wordless choral music was employed by Herbert Stothart for the opening titles of Wizard Of Oz and The Human Comedy. He used extremely short choral passages for perhaps the express purpose of mood-setting; not a single measure of choral music could be found in the rest of the scores.
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Add one more obvious and indelibly memorable choral cue to the list: the climactic duel between Vader & Luke in Jedi.
[This message has been edited by Howard L (edited 06 April 2000).]
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