G4TV presents footage and interviews from a live sold-out concert at the Roxy in Los Angeles featuring the music from Battlestar Galactica, performed by series composer Bear McCreary and the “BSG Orchestra” (including composer Steve Bartek on guitar). The show was so popular they added a second night performance. Video: G4TV.com.
Amazon.com’s MP3 downloads section now features samples from every track of John Williams’ Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. This marks the first time folks have had the opportunity to hear part of the highly-anticipated return of John Williams to Indiana Jones territory (and film scoring in general!). The score will be available to download and on CD in stores on May 20th. Check out the samples now at Amazon.com.
Intrada has announced two new limited releases, Arthur B. Rubenstein’s Wargames, limited to 2500 copies. Says Intrada:
“An LP issued at the time of the film featured 37 minutes of highlights from the score, heavily mixed with dialog. This release features the complete score, adding another 30 minutes of music, re-mixed from the original multi-track elements — and completely dialog free!”
Intrada also announced Jerry Fielding’s complete score (in stereo) for The Nightcomers, limited to 1500 copies. Both discs are in stock now at Intrada and available for immediate ordering.
Film Score Monthly will release a remastered edition of Jerry Goldsmith’s Under Fire priced at $16.95 (previously available only as an pricey import from Japan) and a combo disc featuring George Durning’s The Wreck of The Mary Deare with John Green’s Twilight of Honor (3,000 copies). Both FSM discs are available at Screen Archives.
Perseverance Records presents Richard Band’s Mutant, expanded with 14 additional cues as well as 6 main title cues from other Band scores. Mutant is limited to 1500 copies and is available via Perseverance’s website.
To celebrate their 30th Anniversary, Varèse Sarabande is holding the mother of all composer signings at Dark Delicacies in Burbank, California. The composers attending include:
Marc Shaiman, Edward Shearmur, Jan A.P. Kaczmarek, Trevor Rabin, Don Davis, Christophe Beck, Marco Beltrami, Charles Bernstein, Mychael Danna, John Debney, Cliff Eidelman, Michael Giacchino, Mark Isham, Joel McNeely, John Ottman, Lalo Schifrin, Brian Tyler, Christopher Young, plus Varese producer Robert Townson, film composer agent Robert Kraft and artist Matthew Joseph Peak! Read more…
Intrada presents one of Jerry Goldsmith’s last unreleased scores from the 1980s, scored during one of his many career high points, and marking the first Walt Disney album Intrada has released since the earlier releases of Night Crossing, Honey I Blew up the Kids, and Homeward Bound some years ago. The 1985 Touchstone film, Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend was the first of many impressive scores delivered by Goldsmith that year, a year which included Rambo: First Blood Part 2, Explorers, and King Solomon’s Mines. Of all these, it’s most interesting to note that the break-loose, thundering action music in Baby most resembles the action music in Rambo, where Goldsmith chose to focus on his aggressive action style for the relentless chase sequences. Baby was a particularly challenging assignment for Goldsmith. Coming 8 years before the CGI revolution and Jurassic Park, Goldsmith needed to come up not only with an exciting dinosaur theme, but be the emotion and character of the somewhat inexpressive rubber baby dinosaur character and endear it to the audience. He also had to express the familial instincts of the two adult dinosaurs, their anger and anguish as they confront the dinosaur hunters, and the baby dinosaur’s developing bond with the human couple (played by William Katt and Sean Young). But wait, there’s more. Goldsmith also had to characterize the Sunufu tribesman, flesh out the atmosphere of the African location photography, and provide the driving rhythms that would propel a number of elaborate action scenes in the film. The result: Goldsmith delivers a score that compares favorably to masterpieces like Legend and Rambo 2, in a way creating a satisfying synthesis between the fanciful, exotic fantasy of the former and the hard-charging, relentless action of the latter. Read more…
