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LOG IN Forgot Login? Register General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board Search Terms:  Search Within:  topics posts since 2019 2018 posts 2017 posts 2016 posts 2015 posts 2014 posts 2013 posts 2012 posts 2011 posts 2010 posts 2009 posts 2008 posts 2007 posts 2006 posts 2005 posts 2004 posts 2003 posts 2002 posts 2001 posts 2000 posts users  search tips  You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1      General Discussion: Happy 100th Birthday Russell Garcia   Last Post   Posted:   Apr 11, 2016 - 5:29 PM     By:   paulw   (Member) If he was still alive he would be 100 today New Zealand standard time. Unfortunately he died on November 22 .2011. Best remembered for his scores of The Time machine and Atlantis, the Lost Continent ..    Posted:   Apr 11, 2016 - 5:53 PM     By:   filmusicnow   (Member) If he was still alive he would be 100 today New Zealand standard time. Unfortunately he died on November 22 .2011. Best remembered for his scores of The Time machine and Atlantis, the Lost Continent .. And the main title for "Laredo".    Posted:   Apr 11, 2016 - 7:08 PM     By:   LeHah   (Member) And a truly lovely person to boot. I got a brief but warm email from him in 2008.    Posted:   Apr 11, 2016 - 7:41 PM     By:   OnyaBirri   (Member) Best remembered for his scores of The Time machine and Atlantis, the Lost Continent .. Best remembered for his masterpiece "Fantastica."    Posted:   Apr 12, 2016 - 4:57 AM     By:   Graham Watt   (Member) Best remembered for his scores of The Time machine and Atlantis, the Lost Continent .. Best remembered for his masterpiece "Fantastica." Each of us will remember him in our own way, depending on our leanings. I understand his importance in the Exotica world, but for many freaky film nuts, his THE TIME MACHINE probably made the most impression. Like many here, I first saw the film at an impressionable age, and on listening to the wonderful FSM release, I am almost, very appropriately, transported back through time. I know that many film scores are seemingly interchangeable, but for a variety of factors I can't imagine a more perfect score for the film.    Posted:   Apr 12, 2016 - 5:45 AM     By:   OnyaBirri   (Member) ...I understand his importance in the Exotica world... Well, strictly speaking, "Fantastica" is an outer space album, or what some have retroactively dubbed "outer space exotica." It is about futurism and modernism, the opposite of an idealized, primal world that exotica attempts to portray. There are a couple of tracks with a quasi-exotica feel, including "Venus." At any rate, this album is arguably Garcia's most important musical statement. "Fantastica" is now on CD paired with Frank Comstock's "Project Comstock: Music from Outer Space:" http://www.amazon.com/Music-Outer-Space-Fantastica-Comstock/dp/B01D1UC2RE/ref=sr_1_2?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1460461379&sr=1-2&keywords=russ+garcia+fantástica and has also been released on vinyl: http://www.amazon.com/Fantastica-Russ-Garcia-His-Orchestra/dp/B017752XQ4/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1460461275&sr=1-1&keywords=russ+garcia+fantástica    Posted:   Apr 12, 2016 - 6:20 PM     By:   paulw   (Member) Best remembered for his scores of The Time machine and Atlantis, the Lost Continent .. Best remembered for his masterpiece "Fantastica." Each of us will remember him in our own way, depending on our leanings. I understand his importance in the Exotica world, but for many freaky film nuts, his THE TIME MACHINE probably made the most impression. Like many here, I first saw the film at an impressionable age, and on listening to the wonderful FSM release, I am almost, very appropriately, transported back through time. I know that many film scores are seemingly interchangeable, but for a variety of factors I can't imagine a more perfect score for the film. Yes Graham you summed up pretty well how I feel..    Posted:   Apr 13, 2016 - 1:03 PM     By:   jackfu   (Member) As a child in the 60s, I was impressed by the cover for his LP "Sounds In The Night", having seen it in a Sears store, and being captivated by the artwork (didn't get to hear the music until years later) and of course his work for "The Time Machine". Great stuff for TV, too!    Posted:   Apr 13, 2016 - 6:35 PM     By:   OnyaBirri   (Member) As a child in the 60s, I was impressed by the cover for his LP "Sounds In The Night", having seen it in a Sears store, and being captivated by the artwork (didn't get to hear the music until years later)... "Wow" is the money cut from that album.    Posted:   Apr 13, 2016 - 7:34 PM     By:   filmusicnow   (Member) He wasn't even included in Thomas Hilshak's so called "The Encyclopedia Of Film Composers". I mean, he included Leonard Bernstein, who scored only one film, while Garcia scored around at least five? A travesty!!!    Posted:   Apr 14, 2016 - 1:34 AM     By:   Jim Doherty   (Member) When I was still in grade school in the the 1960s, THE TIME MACHINE was one of the first films I saw on TV where the music startled me and made take notice. I fell in love with that movie and its music. It was the only movie my parents would let me stay up after my bedtime and watch when in was shown in a 10:30 PM time slot. My dad would always watch it with me. I remember that years later (and I mean about 25 years later), when GNP Crescendo released their CD of the score, I had my dad sit down and told him I wanted to play him something. I popped in the CD, and within the first few seconds his face beamed with glowing eyes and a big, bright smile, and he said "The Time Machine!" He wasn't a particularly musical person, so the fact that that music made the same kind of impression on him that it made on me has always stuck with me.    Posted:   Apr 14, 2016 - 12:39 PM     By:   filmusicnow   (Member) And Sam Spence (yes, the N.F.L. Films composer) was one of his students.    Posted:   Apr 14, 2016 - 1:09 PM     By:   jkannry   (Member) When I was still in grade school in the the 1960s, THE TIME MACHINE was one of the first films I saw on TV where the music startled me and made take notice. I fell in love with that movie and its music. It was the only movie my parents would let me stay up after my bedtime and watch when in was shown in a 10:30 PM time slot. My dad would always watch it with me. I remember that years later (and I mean about 25 years later), when GNP Crescendo released their CD of the score, I had my dad sit down and told him I wanted to play him something. I popped in the CD, and within the first few seconds his face beamed with glowing eyes and a big, bright smile, and he said "The Time Machine!" He wasn't a particularly musical person, so the fact that that music made the same kind of impression on him that it made on me has always stuck with me. Similar experience. Different decade. Dad wasn't involved. But the music was so moving combined with movie dragged grandfather and mother to a revival to see on big screen.    Posted:   Apr 14, 2016 - 1:16 PM     By:   jkannry   (Member) As odd as this sounds, to find anything other than the Time Machine in iTunes, have to search for Russ Garcia and not Russell Garcia.    Posted:   Apr 14, 2016 - 5:00 PM     By:   OnyaBirri   (Member) As odd as this sounds, to find anything other than the Time Machine in iTunes, have to search for Russ Garcia and not Russell Garcia. He is credited as Russ on most of the albums I have.    Posted:   May 3, 2016 - 12:37 AM     By:   Preston Neal Jones   (Member) He's credited as Russell on the rare CD I've just discovered, "Horns!", an anthology of brass concert pieces by The Horn Cub of Los Angeles -- so apparently he was "Russell" when composing classical music. "Variations on a Five Note Theme" is the roughly 12 minute piece he contributes to this EMI album, which also includes among its works an eight-minute piece by David Raksin and even a Mendelssohn tarantella arranged by Fred Steiner. The 21-track CD -- available from Arkiv music -- features all sorts of old and new pieces, from Rossini to Alec Wilder.     General Discussion: Happy 100th Birthday Russell Garcia    < 1  >   Go to page:  1   First Post    General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1

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