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Topic: THE TEN COMMANDMENTS Track Order Question
Marcelo Ferreyra
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Does anybody knows the correct track order of The Ten Commandments by E.Bernstein?
I have the MCA RE-Recording conducted by
the composer,but the Overture is in track 11,
so the order is not correct.
I don't have the video to chech it out.
Could You help me with this?
Thank You!The order in the CD is:
1.Prelude
2.In The Bulrushes
3.The Bitter Life
4.Love And Ambition
5.The Hard Bondage
6.Egyptian Dance
7.The Crucible Of God
8.And Moses Watered Jethro's Flock
9.Bedouin Dance
10.I Am That I Am
11.Overture
12.Thus says The Lord
13.The Plagues
14.The Exodus
15.The Pillar Of Fire
16.The Red Sea
17.The Ten Commandments
18.Go,Proclaim Liberty
posted 04-24-2000 01:54 PM PT (US) Swashbuckler
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That "Overture" track is actually the "Entr'acte." The overture of the film was not, in fact, composed by Elmer Bernstein, and contains no thematic relationship to the rest of the score.Although there are many stories floating around as to the nature of this track, the one I think is most likely is that it is the last composition of the legendary Victor Young, who was originally going to score the film (he had worked with Cecil B. DeMille before) but died before he had the chance.
Elmer Bernstein took over and the rest is history...
posted 04-24-2000 07:41 PM PT (US) H Rocco
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Elmer Bernstein was lucky to get THE TEN COMMANDMENTS -- he really wanted the job, for obvious reasons -- but he was just coming off the jazz-flavored MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM, which won him an Oscar nomination, and he was worried DeMille would hear it, and then think "This guy can't write an epic!" One day during the planning of the score, DeMille mentioned to Bernstein, "You know, I saw THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM last night," and a sinking-hearted Bernstein replied "I was afraid you might," but the director assured him, "Don't worry, you're the guy for me -- just DON'T write like that for THIS movie!"NP: KING KONG (John Barry)
posted 04-24-2000 08:15 PM PT (US) Eric Paddon
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If you listen carefully though you can hear rather faintly the main Bernstein theme just as the Overture comes to an end, which suggests that Bernstein at the very least did some final orchestration of it, even if Young did write it.
posted 04-26-2000 03:03 PM PT (US) Old Infopop Software by UBB