Malte Müller
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Okay, I always thought that the generaly end of music department system and Alfred Newman’s departure as 20th Century Fox’s head was counted as the cutoff point.
Well, I normally would count Golden Age until around 1959 and had totally missed that at first.
You all listed a lot of my favorites, so I tried to list some else for variation but still got some “duplicates”:
Max Steiner – King Kong
Franz Waxman – Bride Of Frankenstein
Erich Wolfgang Korngold – The Adventures Of Robin Hood
Dimitri Tiomkin – Red River
Gottfried Huppertz – Metropolis
Edmund Meisel – Battleship Potemkin
Sergei Prokofiev – Iwan The Terrible
Miklos Rosza – Thief Of Bagdad
Alfred Newman – Captain From Castille
David Raksin – LAURAIf 1948 is the cutoff point then Victor Youngs AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS being from 1956 is disqualified. And also Hugo Friedhofer’s SEVEN CITIES OF GOLD from 1955 😉
Yes, Phantom it is! It’s very different from Budd’s other scores that I’ve heard, or perhaps you guys could point me towards a similarly sounding score of his.
He rarely is that purely orchestral. The Phantom main theme always reminds me of something else but I forgot what… KIDNAPPED or FIELD OF HONOR also are rather orchestral as is SINDBAD and I think the two WILD GEESE ones.
So here is my origin story that Thor already knows in a shorter version I believe:
My parents liked music but were not really huge music lovers. But my father actually was a great deal indirectly responsible that I became a film score fan. As a child we watched a lot of those monumental and western movies on weekends, especially westerns we still loved and managed to watch a lot again and a lot unknown lesser known ones the last few years before he passed away.
My father was a fan of the movie „Once Upon A Time In The West“ and loved „Jill’s Theme“. This and Tangerine Dream’s „Thief“ were later the first two scores ever I had on CD! I will have that tune play at his funeral, a tear dropper for sure!
So watching these movie burnt my love for Morricone, Tiomkin, Rosza, Korngold and others into my mind literally. Also childhood encounters were Ron Goodwin’s Miss Marple themes and John Barry’s various Bonds. My father bought me a Bond compilation LP that I still have.
Since I never was a charts music listener I always preferred instrumental music and sometime in the 80s I discovered electronic music and especially Tangerine Dream. Axel F was one of my favorite 80s tracks back then (I still have the original vinyl singe of it).
And I watched a lot of TV series and loved the themes. Love the 70s funky crime music. And huge Mike Post/Peter Carpenter fan since thenI I was even one of those who recorded lots of TV themes off the TV. (Twin Peaks is also a favorite of mine from the 90s.)
My all time favorites Goldsmith and Williams I interesstingly discovered quite some time later. Don’t remember excatly what my first Goldsmith was – might be First Blood or something – but I am sure my first Williams was a compilation on the Philips label with Star Wars, Superman, ET and Close Encounters.
Musicbox has good prices as does Quartet but shipping rates often kill that. It only works out with bulk ordering or with sales. For US labels like Lalaland regular soundtrackcorner prices mostly match sales + shipping… I have the “local benefit” with soundtrackcorner and jpc of free shipping for orders above Euro 100 (soundtrackcorner, easily reached…) and Euro 20 (jpc).
Good choices already and nice to see the rarely mentioned Virgil Thomson. One score per composer is tough to choose 😉
I assess on a case-by-case basis.
I do that as well. Two examples: Some Goldsmiths for me work better expanded. But Williams’ is a case where I am already quite confident with his fairly generous original albums. Only got a few where the film version is quite different or has other benefits (like the intrada JAWS, EIGER or Missouri Breaks).
Not familiar some of those you listed (and even don’t know a few composers at all). Will have to think a little about that 😉
As as side note: Some time ago I discovered an ice ballet, “Snow Queen” in English, by Kantelinen via our French-German broadcaster arte: https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/112555-000-A/die-schneekoenigin-als-eis-ballett/ (probably the video is geo blocked for you though…)
Don’t remember that. I ordered a lot since the 90s from Soundtrack Club – also run by a Christian – until it suddenly closed doors without explaination some years ago. And I frequently visted Tarantula, if anyone knows that, when the original owners had their store here in my home town.
Yes, indeed, sometimes titles are listed as preorders and sometimes in a small box as new arrivals. But otherwise not. The shop software running the site seems also not the latest, often get SSL warnings on pages. I assume that with all the costs it makes sense to order stuff in bulk when enough interest is there.
