I am not listening to it directly, but I am hearing Christmas music through my floor. I live in the apartment above my father and for some reason he purchased IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE. He did not want to tell me and did not know he was playing it that loud.
Didn't The Boardmeister proclaim not too long ago that one of the largest contributors to the infernal slowness of this board is the multiplicity of threads featuring successions of large graphics? Can't people just say what they're listening to and spare us the pictures? (End of mini-rant)
There's nothing I love so much as going back through my collection and re-discovering lesser known scores by great composers. I am, as I write this, listening to Alex North's score for a not-very-well-known film entitled SANCTUARY. It shares a disc with the Varese Club release of THE LONG HOT SUMMER and has much in common with that fine score in tone and subject matter. SANCTUARY is yet another Faulkner-based film of scurrilous shenanigans in the sultry South, a type of film score at which North excelled. The lovely melodies, melancholy saxes and sneaky dissonances are there to savor, though the score (or what remained of it) is sadly short, and the sound does waver a bit from time to time. But it's pure joy for a die-hard Northian...
