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Topic: NAME YOUR FAVOURITE GOLDEN AGE SCORES AVAILABLE IN SOME RECORDED FORM

SPOR

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14 for me, because there is at least one for each major composer of the time... Don't feel obligated to put them in some sort of subjective order.Mine are:
1. Raintree County by John Green
2. The Best Days of Our Lives by Hugo Friedhofer
3. The Big Country by Jerome Moross
4. Vertigo by Bernard Herrmann
5. Forever Amber by David Raskin
6. Bride of Frankenstien by Franz Waxman
7. Anthony Adverse by Erich W. Korngold
8. They Died With Their Boots On by Max Steiner
9. Ben Hur by Miklos Rosza
10. Spartacus by Alex North
11. The Song of Bernadette by Alfred Newman
12. The Thing by Dimitri Tiomkin
13. East of Eden by Leonard Rosenman
14. Mutiny on the Bounty by Bronislau Kaperposted 07-09-2000 04:49 PM PT (US) 
H Rocco
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Marco Polo did an amazing rerecording of Max Steiner's KING KONG.And John Williams conducted violinist Isaac Stern in a splendid rendition of the WUTHERING HEIGHTS theme by Alfred Newman.
Why has no one properly and fully rerecorded Alfred Newman's WUTHERING HEIGHTS?
posted 07-09-2000 06:18 PM PT (US) 
Marian Schedenig

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Captain Blood!!! There's a great suite on Marco Polo's album entitled..."Captain Blood". But I'd still love a complete recording. This album also includes suites for The King's Thief (Rozsa), The Three Musketeers (Steiner) and Scaramouche (Young; is there a more complete version of this?). Highly recommended album!Others are Adventures of Robin Hood (available as a re-recording on Varese, but I don't have it yet), The Sea Hawk (also re-recorded, forgot the label, never found the disc), Ben Hur, Spartacus (there seems to be no decent official release, what are they waiting for?), The Adventures of Don Juan (available or upcoming on "BYU").
And Philip Sainton's Moby Dick, available on Marco Polo.
Oh, and I don't yet have FSM's Prince Valiant (Waxman), but I have to get it soon. I love the suite on Gerhardt's Waxman album.
NP: The Fly II (Chris Young)
posted 07-09-2000 06:47 PM PT (US) 
Lancelot

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Ditto on the Steiner/"Don Juan" bid...looking forward to that release. Steiner's "Casablanca", as well, though being very minimal, and more of a miscelaneous sound-bytes album, is still a classic.
posted 07-09-2000 07:11 PM PT (US) 
joan hue

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Spor, please help me out on the difference in time between
the Golden Aged scores and Silver Aged scores. I thought
the Golden age was film music in the 1930’s and l940’s.
I’d then second H Rocco’s endorsement for Wuthering
Heights, one of Alfred Newman’s loveliest scores. I’d also
add Steiner’s Now Voyager.I thought the Silver Age was the 50’s and 60’s. Current
times would encompass the 70’s through now. Is this correct?
(Is this the Bronze age?
)I’d concur with The Big Country, Ben Hur, Spartacus, and add
my other favorites, Mr. Roberts (Waxman, this score only has the
main theme on CD so far) and King of Kings by
Rosza. However, are these from the Golden Age or Silver Age? (Duh!)NP Taras Bulba
posted 07-09-2000 10:13 PM PT (US) 
PeterK

FishChip

Joan,It has always been my understanding that Hollywood's "Classic Era" (often referred to as the "Golden Age") was roughly between 1930 and 1960. Most film historians abide by this.
As for "Silver Age," this identifier is not necessarily specific enough to any time frame. The lack of this descriptive word in most historical critiques of cinema might suggest the absence of where such "age" begins and ends.
SPOR, what recorded form do you refer to with Kaper's Mutiny on the Bounty? Truly a perfect example of a great score from a bad film, I am only aware of the LP. Is there any other such format available? Or not available as the case may be?
PeterK
NP - "The Patriot"
posted 07-09-2000 10:52 PM PT (US) 
SPOR

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Mutiny On The Bounty was available on a UK EMI CD (CDP 79 4876 2) release coupled with Taras Bulba in 1990. I bought my copy in Canada. Regrettably, Mutiny sounds just as pinched and garbled on CD as it does on LP. Some enterprising label should rerecord this sucker...if ever a score deserved a new lease on life, it would be this one.NP: MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY: Girls and Sailors (nothing on The Patriot compares to even this one track)
posted 07-09-2000 11:30 PM PT (US) 
Rang
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Well, once Marco Polo releases it, I'm more than looking forward (is that possible?) to their recording of Steiner's TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE. Absolutely wonderful score in the film, though I thought the distorting of the main theme into an "evil" motif for Bogart was hilarious.I love Waxman's REBECCA and THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN, and a friend of mine has me very interested in another upcoming Marco Polo release - Waxman's OBJECTIVE, BURMA. I've yet to see the film and I've only heard the suite of the score on Varese's Vol. 1 of Waxman's music, but I liked that very much. Basically, anything available by Waxman that I've heard, I've been thrilled with.
Rozsa's SPELLBOUND will always be a favorite of mine ...
Herrmann's THE GHOST AND MRS. MUIR - beautiful stuff ...
And everyone ... listen to Marian about CAPTAIN BLOOD. He tells the truth!
posted 07-10-2000 12:30 AM PT (US) 
Marian Schedenig

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Actually, how I got to know Captain Blood is quite an interesting story (well, probably not that interesting, sorry if I bore you).For my final exam in school, I had chosen film music as my special topic for music. I bought Katrin Kalinak's (sp?) film music book "Settling the Score", which also contains analysises (pl?) of The Empire Strikes Back, Laura and... Captain Blood, including some of the most important themes in musical notation. So I went to my electronic organ and tried to play the Peter Blood theme, and I instantly fell in love with that score. Later, I watched the movie (and I recently was disappointed to discover that I didn't tape it) and realized that I had played the theme much too slow. And for my last birthday, I finally got the Marco Polo album mentioned above.
posted 07-10-2000 10:54 AM PT (US) Old Infopop Software by UBB
