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I rarely do sales pitches and things like that, but "Return to Oz" is one of my favorite scores, so here's my pitch for people who might pooh-pooh this release for whatever reason:
If you like Silver Age scores which use serialism, aleatory, and other second Vienna school 20th Century compositional techniques, avant-garde percussion and extended performance techniques, you'll find a lot to love in "Return to Oz."
If you like Golden Age scores with glorious long-lined melodies and bold but transparent orchestration, you'll find a lot to love in "Return to Oz."
If you like early twentieth century American music, such as early ragtime, folk harmonies, brass ensembles and everything else under that umbrella, you'll find a lot to love in "Return to Oz."
If you like the music of Charles Ives, and his particular and idiosyncratic evocations of "American music" and "Americana", as well as his idiomatic string writing, you'll find a lot to love in "Return to Oz."
If you like symphonic repertoire in the vein of "Peter and the Wolf", "A Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra", and "Carnival of the Animals", then you'll REALLY find a lot to love in "Return to Oz."
If you like orchestral music that is written with such intelligence, attention to detail, eclecticism, that after multiple listens, you're still discovering little moments and melodic & harmonic interrelation between ideas and moments, then "Return to Oz" is for you. All that, and the music has incredible coherence and unity between movements.
David Shire has written a lot of brilliant scores, and "Return to Oz" handily ranks among his best. I love the original LP/CD arrangement - which Shire put a tremendous amount of thought, energy, and attention to (having seen all of his edit notes for the album assembly, as well as the various differences in manuscripts - a couple of "Album Versions" and so on, I can attest to the detail and sense of perfectionism he put into the album) capturing all of the major musical ideas in a brilliant way with a marvelous flow. That said, I am so looking forward to hearing the rest of this score, and hearing more of the wonderfully constructed pieces fit together, and the LP/CD layout is such a unique entity in itself, that I'm hoping that's represented here, too - it'd be great to have that edition of the score back in print, too.
And, of course, don't forget to support all of the other wonderful recent Shire releases - "Paternity", "The Journey Within", "The Women of Brewster Place", and "Old Boyfriends." (And going farther back, "David Shire at the Movies", which has a brilliant chamber suite from "Return to Oz" that encapsulates several of the score's key ideas with tremendous economy and beauty.) [And the terrific "Rear Window." Thanks, Yavar!]
And if the other score does indeed turn out to be "Judge Dredd", that promises to be great fun, too. I've not heard a note of the score - apart from that electric Goldsmith trailer music - but it's Silvestri writing big action set-pieces, so I'm sure it's great fun.
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Don't forget Rear Window which also came out recently...
Yavar
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And if the other score does indeed turn out to be "Judge Dredd", that promises to be great fun, too. I've not heard a note of the score - apart from that electric Goldsmith trailer music - but it's Silvestri writing big action set-pieces, so I'm sure it's great fun.
Oh, you're in for a treat my friend 
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So does everyone think the other release is Judge Dredd? Sorry got lost in this thread.
Yes. All over this thread and the one at Intrada. Looking forward.
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Sometimes Roger's clues are ambiguous enough that a few titles fit all criteria and we are left guessing until release day.
This time it was instantly obvious what the two titles were, but people like to keep throwing out other guesses anyway...
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Sad to see Bill & Ted go out of print so quickly. I just saw Intrada post the "get it while u can by this date" thing.
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