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My discs have been sitting in a sorting office in Oakland, California for 6 days (!). Something Wicked Comes Very Slowly, I think. Not going to be here by Christmas, anyway.
Same for me, but the package (I also ordered Edward Scissorhands) has now arrived in Los Angeles, so I hope it will now be directly send to The Netherlands.
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Those "boring" vocal pieces will be playing as I sit in the dark waiting to scare the living Jeebus out of kids next Halloween...
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Dec 18, 2015 - 8:23 AM
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Last Child
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faced with the impossible choice of whether to play Double Indemnity or Something Wicked first, I opted for the latter since I wanted something less pulse-pounding, more calming. As expected from the samples, stunning quality. Hackle-raising, exotic, tender, eerie, poignant. I keep trying to picture scenes from the movie and how it would have played out with this score.
For some reason, the choral cues remind me of the theremin cues in DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL, albeit more subtly here, they way they work in the background.
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I got a CD used from somebody, from Canada. It arrived a month later looking like maybe those hooisers had been playing curling with it.
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I finally received my copy today.
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I must say one thing about this CD.
If your only experience of this rejected score was from the astonishing 12 minute suite that Delerue and Varese gave us on The London Sessions, you're in for quite a surprise.
While the suite contained the exotic Mirrors music and the lovely boys theme and it opened with the explosive Dark Dies piece, it didn't have (or hardly had, in my memory) any of the Herrmann-esque brooding Mr Dark theme or choral cues, of which this CD is full of.
It could be argued it contained the finest 12 minutes of any score...EVER!
It also featured a much fuller and more robust performance by the London orchestra, in comparison to the thinner sounding USA score recording.
I will say I was a little disappointed by my first full play through.
Only time will tell if the rest of the score grows on me over time. Maybe my mood was all wrong?
On a plus note, the artwork, booklet, design etc is very, very nice.
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