The aforementioned MAN WHO WAS NEVER BORN - it IS a great score. Heartrendingly tender moments, not the same love theme as A FEASIBILITY STUDY. That was another great LIMITS score.

100 DAYS OF THE DRAGON - wonderful orientalisms, high strings like Goldsmith's eastern scores.

NIGHTMARE - spooky thereminish stuff, subdued oddness like Alexander Courage's STAR TREK scores.

Dominic Frontiere - what a brilliant talent. Neil Norman, in his CD notes, talks about Frontiere setting airspeed records in his own plane, and creating new works for orchestra, computer and synthesizers, all the time remaining "at the cutting edge of innovation and style." Gil Mellé's cousin!

http://www.gothic.net/~chromo/limits/ol_episodes5.html#nightmare
DAVID C. HOLCOMB SAID: "For NIGHTMARE, he largely abandoned the orchestral sound he usually employed, utilizing instead an eerie blend of electric guitar, harp, flute, and electronic dirge. The effect is alien and intimidating, and doubtless intended to unnerve; it does so, in spades...This score was re-used and expanded upon in various later installments, always to good effect."

http://www.spaceagepop.com/frontier.htm
Graham, I know you're a jazz fan. (I think it was you who posted something about JJ Johnson.) Have you heard any of Frontiere's jazz?

Luscious, thank you so much for accessing the great music of Dominic Frontiere. I CALL ALL! CLICK ON LUSH'S LINKS AND EXPERIENCE THE WONDERFUL MUSIC OF DOM FRONTIERE! No, Lush, I've never heard any of Frontiere's jazz works. The closest I've got is his sort of ersatz jazz, kind of game-show swing almost, for films like BRANNIGAN and PERFECT GENTLEMEN. I see he formed a band with Jack Marshall - he of THE MUNSTERS theme! I notice that he also played accordion on Victor Young's classic AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS score.

http://www.razzies.com/asp/content/XcNewsPlus.asp?cmd=view&articleid=34
The Golden Raspberry Award Foundation awarded THE COLOR OF NIGHT a Razzie for being the worst movie of 1994. They also nominated Frontiere's tune [THE COLOR OF THE NIGHT] for a Razzie, but it was bested by a Barry Manilow tune. By the way, I don't trust those tin-eared Razzniks for a second. Because they also once nominated a perfectly good John Barry tune called THE MAN IN THE MASK.

http://www.citypaper.net/articles/073197/article031.shtml
Anonymous critic on THE STUNT MAN: "Dominic Frontiere's propulsive soundtrack is so hummably catchy that it found an afterlife where it was likely heard by many more people than have ever seen THE STUNT MAN: for years, the film's main theme was used as the introductory and station-break music for WPVI-TV's 11:30 pm MILLION DOLLAR MOVIE here in Philadelphia."

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Originally posted by Graham Watt:
Forgot to ask something about Domo. The local fruit shop has had THE COLOR OF NIGHT nestling amongst its cabbages for years, and going cheap! Is it worth it? No sign that it's just songs or something. But no sign that it's good unadulterated Domo either.

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It runs about 34:16, of which I think three tracks are songs, one of them by Frontiere. The rest of the disc is Frontiere's score which is, I think, entirely electronic. But I haven't played it in a long while....

NP: DEMOLITION MAN (Elliot Goldenthal)