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May 15, 2012 - 3:07 PM
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MusicMad
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As for MR Barry's music , althought there will be alot of things i would liked to see, what i really would get a kick out of , is to dig out a vocal of someone doing The last valley main theme, ...
There already is ... and it's unsurpassable: it's called the Main Title Theme and it's sung by The Voices of The Accademia Monteverdiana.
Witticism over ... much as I love his music I don't hanker for songs made out of his melodies. Not just for John Barry's works, but generally, retro-fitted lyrics do not turn a non-song into a song.
John Barry's career is full of compositions which work equally as songs and as instrumentals because they were written that way. Similarly for many other composers' works. But a lyric sounds strained when it's added to, rather than written with, the melody.
I often state that there is no music by Mr. Barry that I don't want to hear time and again - which makes him easily my favourite composer - but as an exception: I don't seek out to play his album of recordings with The Ten Tenors ... and that's not just because I'm not too taken with their vocal talents. I want to hear Somewhere in Time, Dances With Wolves and Out of Africa in their pure brilliance ... as instrumentals.
Please leave The Last Valley unadulterated ... music doesn't get any better than this ...
Mitch
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As for MR Barry's music , althought there will be alot of things i would liked to see, what i really would get a kick out of , is to dig out a vocal of someone doing The last valley main theme, just like they have dug out obscure vocals of Francis, Walkabout, Robin and Marian etc etc.
There was a The Last Valley song. The lyric was by Don Black and it was written at the same time the film was being scored. The press book for The Last Valley promoted it, even though it was evidently not recorded or released.
Silva Screem did record the song when they re-recorded the score. But they did not release it.
Cheers
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The Seasons.........................
Unfinished. He wrote and developed only sketches. Sorry (and end of the story...).
That is disappointing but not really surprising as his son in law said that he hadn't composed during the final two years of his life.
Would be good to have John Barry's two rejected scores 'Year OF The Comet' and 'Goodbye Lover' released + unreleased scores such as 'First Love' 'Eleanor and Franklin' and 'The Tamarind Seed.
'Mister Moses', the rejected 'Sinful Davey' and 'Moonraker' seem to be lost to landill but I'll be happy to be proved wrong.
Just one Barry release so far in 2012 and that a dud Harkit effort.
Hoping for something better in the months ahead.
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