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Topic: Conti's Right Stuff and Rocky
John C Winfrey
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This post is result of reading something on another site about Rocky and the source for the fanfare on there from a trumpet concerto by an unknown composer long ago. While I have nothing to add on that, I will comment on Right Stuff.I have always liked the score for Right Stuff, which won the AA for best score of 1983. Some of the themes in there sound very much like some classical works. The end title piece and the theme heard at various times in the film sounds very similiar to "Rosamunde" and some other works from back then. I was listening to KXTR while over at Washburn one day when I was teaching long ago and I heard this classical piece on the radio. It was a little slower than the piece in the film but it was almost note for note the same.
John.
posted 07-09-2004 05:04 PM PT (US) Marc Flake
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I was surprised when this score never got a full release. how many other Academy Award winners don't have scores. Yes, I know there was a suite released as a double album/CD with North and South.There seems to be a lot of borrowing from classical themes. As I recall, there is either a direct use of Holtz' Mars or something very similar to it during one of the space launches.
posted 07-10-2004 07:22 AM PT (US) joan hue
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I love Conti's music in both movies. Also like the heraldic main theme in F.I.S.T.I wish he'd score more current films.
NP Conti's TV Themes. Cagney and Lacy now playing.
posted 07-10-2004 12:21 PM PT (US) franz_conrad
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Originally posted by Marc Flake:
I was surprised when this score never got a full release. how many other Academy Award winners don't have scores. Yes, I know there was a suite released as a double album/CD with North and South.It wasn't a winner, but if Gabriel Yared's score for Cold Mountain had received a complete release, more film score afficiandos would appreciate why it might have been. It's wonderful, and the promo is well worth getting or downloading if you like the clips on Yared's site.
posted 07-10-2004 07:55 PM PT (US) Graham Watt
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I like both ROCKY and THE RIGHT STUFF. ROCKY in particular was pretty much a landmark score. I love those fanfares and the neo-classical approach mixed in with the very cool semi-funky stuff. ROCKY 2 had some great, lengthy, beautifully orchestral tracks on it, almost classically structured, but the theme suffered a bit from some very 80s drums.Oh yes, FIST is an absolute masterpiece! Fantastic score! A massive symphonic onslaught, yet so focussed. The thematic material is just amazing. Is it the last track that has an almost ennobling counterpoint in the low brass, maybe tuba or something, which leads in gloriously to the final statement of the theme? Wow! I said "counterpoint" and I don't even know what it is, but it's good music.
Here's another underrated Conti in a similar vein. Not quite as consistently good as FIST, but with great things in it - THE FORMULA. Yes, I like that very much.
posted 07-18-2004 02:51 PM PT (US) justin boggan
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posted 07-18-2004 07:27 PM PT (US) Bond1965
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Originally posted by Marc Flake:
There seems to be a lot of borrowing from classical themes. As I recall, there is either a direct use of Holtz' Mars or something very similar to it during one of the space launches.You can count Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto #5 as the "inspiration" for the main theme on "The Right Stuff." As Conti stated back in 1987, he was pressured by Phillip Kaufman to copy the temp track on the film.
James
posted 07-19-2004 10:12 AM PT (US) John C Winfrey
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Dont forget that part of Mancini's White Dawn in used in Right Stuff too in one scene in space.John.
posted 07-19-2004 04:46 PM PT (US) Old Infopop Software by UBB