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Jul 7, 2015 - 2:32 PM
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Morricone
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I have given many reviews over the years about these wonderful Kritzerland shows. But I have only managed to bring a handful of FSMers in all this time. So this time I am taking a different tactic.
First I am giving my Paul Williams show review on the announcement of Bruce's next one, a night of Andre Previn. Then, instead of loving details of Sunday night I am coming from a film music approach. So, outside of mentioning Robert Yacko bringing the entire house to tears with "You and me against the world" I am not going to talk about the singers.
What I am going to talk about is why I got into film music. Because as much as I love a good action cue, those ostinatos, crescendos and passacaglias (whatever the hell those are) that raise my hairs at the back of my neck, they are always subservient to the themes. For me those melodies are the core and underlying foundation to the architecture of any score. I absolutely live to hear a composer put his themes through their paces, as opposed to what has been criticized so much lately, those paces becoming the themes.
So what I heard on Sunday were some of these remarkable themes distilled to their essence and married to lyrics that further expressed the film's intent. The heartbreaking loneliness of John Barry's DAY OF THE LOCUST, the wistful optimism of Jerry Goldsmith's THE SECRET OF NIMH, the rugged love theme from John William's THE MAN WHO LOVED CAT DANCING and the haunting Johnny Mandel AGATHA, all came across in a direct simple manner.
Frankly none of them could approach the sublime complexity achieved in John William's CINDERELLA LIBERTY. It tells a very specific love story in a manner that reeks of that pool hall atmosphere the film is steeped in. Someone has to give Barbra Streisand credit for delivering the one Valentine in A STAR IS BORN which is far from one.
And above all is the way Paul Williams gets totally into each and every one of these, seemingly "saying" what the music intimates. This comes across the strongest when he is on his own. The whole spectrum of colors expressed musically and lyrically in PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE, BUGSY MALONE and THE MUPPET MOVIE is amazing.
I couldn't help but walk away, not just entertained and moved, but bowled over by how much of it was just plain profound.
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I have posted a video in the other thread - Flying Dreams. Of course, as is usually the case on this board, that thread has fallen off the main page, as has the update thread to the Indiegogo thing, which a lot of folks here might want to check out before everything I'm offering from my personal collection to cover some of the 10% Indiegogo fees are gone.
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Really looking forward to this. I am expecting INSIDE DAISY CLOVER, VALLEY OF THE DOLLS, TWO FOR THE SEESAW and IT'S ALWAYS FAIR WEATHER but also hoping for the offbeat like FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE, GOODBYE CHARLIE, HARPER and maybe some of those songs written for PEPE and PAINT YOUR WAGON.
Well, I don't think you'll be disappointed 
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Really looking forward to this. I am expecting INSIDE DAISY CLOVER, VALLEY OF THE DOLLS, TWO FOR THE SEESAW and IT'S ALWAYS FAIR WEATHER but also hoping for the offbeat like FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE, GOODBYE CHARLIE, HARPER and maybe some of those songs written for PEPE and PAINT YOUR WAGON.
Well, I don't think you'll be disappointed
I never have been.
So is there enough Previn love in LA to give this a shot?
Heaven knows we've tried, Morricone. It's a little wacky to me that our LA folks just will not come out for these film-related shows.
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"Can it be, I Like Myself?" Yes, indeed! Consequently, I've just ordered my reservation for Sunday night...
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I see you're back to FSM board shaming Henry. The point with any show (and this is a cool idea, as I love Previn's work as much as you) is to get people who want to be there by being positive in your effusiveness, not chiding them for not coming for whatever reason they have.
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I see you're back to FSM board shaming Henry. The point with any show (and this is a cool idea, as I love Previn's work as much as you) is to get people who want to be there by being positive in your effusiveness, not chiding them for not coming for whatever reason they have.
First I asked if there were anyone who would bring them out for such an event
Then I proposed a hypothetical to see if I could get someone to respond. Would Williams do it for them?
Apathy is a tough row to hoe and what I learned from years of not getting anyone to come to the GSPO. Silence equals indifference. So any response, even your irritation at me or eriknelson's post, is good stuff. Thanks to both of you.
Definitely not my definition of "good" "Good" is positively asking people to see a show. And if they don't show, that's their loss. You're not going to get an audience buying the guilt ticket for any event
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I'll just say I do not like these little today catchphrases, the latest of which seems to be "shaming" - it's already irritating and should be retired immediately.
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