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Originally posted by JJH:
Marian, I do believe that I need Fierce Creatures he, if it's 3 bucks...

would you be willing to help?

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Sure, although I think this one was $5 (although it's also worth that; I got my copy for the same price). It's quite a way to that store I mentioned, but I'll go there again now that I know they have a used bin, so if they still have it next time I could pick it up for you.

Today I bought -- sight unheard, so to speak -- a six-dollar copy of a Label X issue of Lalo Schifrin music, entitled CONTINUUM JOURNEYS VOYAGE. The first two pieces are concert works, and the last is a twenty-three minute suite from his Oscar-nominated score for VOYAGE OF THE DAMNED. (He lost to THE OMEN. You probably remember, but my pedantry sets in: the other nominees were Jerry Fielding for THE OUTLAW JOSEY WALES and the deceased Bernard Herrmann for OBSESSION and TAXI DRIVER.)

Also got today: Looking for Richard (Howard Shore), recommended by Swashbuckler, for slightly less than $10 (that's about 3/5 of the usual score CD price around here).

Now, with 8 new CDs and not even having heard them all, I really shouldn't enter a record store in the near future. Oh, except for Fierce Creatures, of course, if you still want it, JJH.

of course I still want it!
email me and tell me how much I will need to send your way (CD + shipping). hinrichs@worldnet.att.net

Tarzan, The Animated Movie-complete (Mark Mancina)
I Dreamed of Africa (Maurice Jarre)
Hamlet (Carter Burwell)
Battlefield Earth (Elia Cmiral)
Dinosaur (James Newton Howard)
Punchline (Charles Gross)

The Crow: Salvation - Marco Beltrami
Ecco: Songs of Time - Spencer Nilsen
Metallica: S&M (Hey what can I say, I won it in a contest.)

Regards,
Sean Robert Abbey

* RETURN OF THE JEDI (RCA 2CD, "BOOK" VS.)

My favourite score of all time. Yes, I know it's controversial, but I like this better than...

* EMPIRE STRIKES BACK (RCA 2CD, "BOOK" VS.)

...which also is a masterpiece, of course, but lacks the "directness" of ROTJ. What can I say about these scores that has not already been said?

* CLOSE ENCOUNTERS... (expanded)

Brooding atonality coupled with unashamed tonality. Yet another Williams opus.

* AMAZING STORIES (Williams/Delerue)

Stereotypical Williams without flair, but excellent as always. Delerue conjures up delightful melodies with a reflective touch - as always.

* TALES FROM THE CRYPT (various)

Disappointing synth drones, the composer names considered (Horner, Broughton etc.), but Elfman's theme stands out.

* MILLENIUM (Zimmer)

More synth drones. A little better than the above, though. Ethnic, but lacking the powerful integration w/orchestra, such as POWER OF ONE, BEYOND RANGOON, LION KING etc.

* BLADE RUNNER (Vangelis)

Probably the one and only time I've bought a score because of the movie (are you reading, Howard?). Beautiful soundscapes that suffer a bit from album presentation.

* EL CID (Rozsa, Sony release)

Temperamental and flamboyant, at times hinting at the religious sound I love so much. A classic.

* BABYLON 5, VOL. 2 (Franke)

1-For Your Eyes Only (Conti)
2-The Egyptian (Herrmann/Newman)
3-The Trouble With Harry (Herrmann)

Girl, Interrupted (Mychael Danna)
Deep Impact (Horner)
Space Jam score CD (JNH)

Tango, Lalo Schifrin; Never knew the Tango was so cool.

ROTJ, Charles Gerhardt re-recording. good stuff, though short. I'm spoiled by the complete SE releases of 1997.

• QB VII (WONDERFUL!)
  
• King Solomon's Mines (Hungarian Orchestra...ugh, but the music is pretty decent)
  
• Rambo III (Haven't had time to listen to this one yet!)
  

In the mail (used - less than $5)

Hook - Williams (finally. I've been listening to the tape for ages...and fast-forwarding all the time to hear 'You are the pan' can get tedious.)

Mr. Holland's Opus - Kamen
Heard it in a store the other week, but ended up getting Life is Beautiful instead.

Passions and Acheivements - Films by Ron Howard
A compilation with Backdraft, Far and Away, Apollo 13, Splash, Cocoon etc.
I've had backdraft on tape for ages, but I still don't have Apollo 13.

Coming Soon..

You guys have convinced me to get:

Conspiracy Theory - Burwell

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade - Williams

Gladiator - Han Zimmer
Dinosaur - James Newton Howard
Battlefield Earth - Elia Cmiral

NP: Krull (MP3 Suite) - James Horner *****

Regards,
Sean Robert Abbey

I picked up about five Roy Budd scores the other day, and ordered five or six more from Amazon. Some good stuff, of the inoffensive 70's sort but not overly cliched.

I haven't given the new Marco Polo Hans Salter release a good enough listen, but it sounds great. Ditto for the Screen Archives release of Friedhofer's Broken Arrow.

The Omega Man was a great purchase. I've got Beneath the Planet of the Apes coming to me, as well as the 2-CD Hook release, Supergirl and The Challenge (even though I'm not a huge Goldsmith fan). The post office is waiting for me to pick up my copy of Sisters on CD.

Contract On Cherry Street

The Omega Man

The latest issue of Film Score Monthly

Contract On Cherry Street is great. This sounds like late 70s Jerry of course (particularly Capricorn One - those vaulting trombone ostinatos; and Coma - that very notey classical sounding piano), but it's also in many ways different from typical Jerry. The nods to Bartok are more extreme than ever (compare this with ...what's it called, anyway, the Bartok piece that opens Being John Malkovich), and this for a TV Movie! The use of trombones instead of the usual trumpet really distinguishes this, in fact never has Jerry growled so much nor had his brass squirt to such a degree.

The Omega Man: Good Lord, what a great score! Film music doesn't HAVE to ape classical music! It bogs down for about three minutes during some extented spook-fest synthesizer meanderings, but this is still wonderful, and the sound is superb. By the way, don't forget to zap forward to about one minute after the end of the last track to hear Lukas' special treat: Ron Grainer speaks!

FSM mag: still The Bible.

Born Free (John Barry)
A Christmas Carol (Stephen Warbeck)
Running Free (Nicola Piovani)
The 10th Kingdom (Anne Dudley)
Don Quxiote (Richard Hartley)
Up At The Villa (Pino Donaggio)
28 Days (Richard Gibbs)
Frankie Starlight (Elmer Bernstein)
Things You Can Tell Just By Looking At Her (Edward Shearmur)
Boss Nova (Antonio Carlos Jobim)
Damage (Zibignew Presner)

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The nods to Bartok are more extreme than ever (compare this with...what's it called, anyway, the Bartok piece that opens Being John Malkovich)

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Graham,
it's called Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celeste.

NP -- a U2 CD

The Chamber, Carter Burwell
Exit to Eden, my vote for sexiest score CD cover art!
Moses the Lawgiver, Ennio Morricone LP; haven't EVEN heard of this one! got it on the strength of Morricone's name.
Psycho, Herrmann/ Elfman/ Bartek. okay, the re-shoot thingy is worse than trash, but the adapted score was excellent.
The Sand Pebbles, Goldsmith LP, original tracks

and JoeInSanDiego is supposed to send me a bunch of stuff, but he seems to have disappeared. Understandable, though.

Soldier - Joel McNeely
Virus - Joel McNeely
The Red Violin - John Corigliano
Kull the Conqueror - Joel Goldsmith
The Mighty - Trevor Jones
Quigley Down Under - Basil Poledouris
Les Miserables - Basil Poledouris

Plus on order,
Supergirl - Jerry Goldsmith
Mission: Impossible 2 - Hans Zimmer
The Perfect Storm - James Horner
Best of Star Trek Vol. 2 - Various

• Gustav Mahler: Symphony #6 (Berliner Philharmoniker/Karajan)
  
• Gustav Mahler: Symphony #9 (Chicago Symphony/Giulini)
  
• Modest Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov (Nicolai Ghiaurov, Wiener Philharmoniker/Karajan) - Fantastic recording!
  
• Anton Brucker: Sacred Works for Chorus (Various/Eugen Jochum), including his wonderful Te Deum
  

I can only once again strongly recommend Boris Godunov and Te Deum. Choral music won't get better than this!

Am about to see about getting The Beach score (Badalamenti).