What are you listening to now?
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Going back to John Scott for a moment. One of my favourite tracks is the end credits to Scott’s music fir SHOOT TO KILL. And, based on that track alone, I was keen on hearing the rest of the score.
However, SHOOT TO KILL is a good example for me of a score with a great single track. The rest I just didn’t like at all.
I wished that I liked the new ABBOTT AND COSTELLO re-recordings.
It’s not the quality of the recording. That’s excellent. I just don’t really like the style of the music. And I cant see how this specific score was such a “Holy Grail” for people.
But, I love how these scores are being given new life in the re-recordings and I hope it succeeds enough to make it worthwhile to do more.
I love SHOOT TO KILL (the movie), but score never did much for me. Too “shrill”, in lack of a better word.
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Featuring a certain John Williams on piano, 1959. Love these flutey-jazzy-swingy cocktail versions of famous film themes.
While I’ve listened to Williams’ Sinfonietta many times over the years, I’ve spent less time with Penderecki’s “Pittsburgh Overture” and Mayuzumi’s “Music for Sculpture”, which make up the rest of this super rare Deutsche Grammophon LP. They’re really wonderful, explorative works to get lost in.
Michael J. Lewis’ score is quite lovely, released on a promo. It barely uses Williams’ theme, so it’s allowed to shine all on its own, in a nicely curated half-hour program. Romantic, lush, and without those silly symbal crash periods Lewis likes to incorporate in a lot of his other music.
A million enthusiastic posts about this on FSM, so I decided to give it a go. I think I did a few years back as well, without it really registering. Well, it has some lovely, bucolic passages, for sure, but it’s much, much too long. Will need a serious whittle.
To be perfectly honest, I don’t like this 1992 album. The combination of an opera soprano, solo piano and covers of non-opera standards is the anti-thesis of what I like to listen to. BUT…it has Williams behind the keys on what was his last whole album as piano performer. That’s always interesting to hear. And it’s where I’m at in my walkthrough, so I had no “choice” but to play it now.
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