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Personally, this is just one of scads of CD's in my overstuffed library that I'm glad I got, enjoyed listening to well enough, but don't happen to have replayed much over the years. That said, one album that I have enjoyed many times is the one of Sinatra conducting the compositions of Alec Wilder. Lovely, and evocative, IMHO.
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Jul 25, 2016 - 8:52 AM
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Jim Doherty
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I've always liked this LP/CD. I love the Victor Young cuts. By the way, "White" was also available on an old Disneyland LP, WINTER (WDL-3026), conducted by Tutti Camarata at a slightly brisker pace which I think works better for this piece. Incidentally, on that LP the piece is titled "The Silver Tree." The other Young track, "Black," features Young writing in a time signature that is rather unusual for him.
I also like Gordon Jenkins' heart-on-the-sleeve "Green" which sounds like a Frank Skinner composition right out of one of Ross Hunter's 1950s melodramas.
Alec Wilder's "Gray" also sounds like film music, perhaps some "lonely troubled youth in the big city" kind of thing.
Nelson Riddle's "Gold" is a suspense-filled piece that starts out rather subdued with a soft snare-drum ostinato and slowly builds to hopeful climax (think of Ravel's "Bolero"). It sounds like a cue that easily could have been used in a war film.
All in all, the collection of themes is a mixed bag that doesn't gel too well a concept album, yet it offers many great individual cuts.
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I've always liked this LP/CD. I love the Victor Young cuts. By the way, "White" was also available on an old Disneyland LP, WINTER (WDL-3026), conducted by Tutti Camarata at a slightly brisker pace which I think works better for this piece.
Victor Young's "White" is at least partially based (just compare the sleigh bells) on the "Rome" track from THREE COINS IN THE FOUNTAIN.
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Victor Young's "White" is at least partially based (just compare the sleigh bells) on the "Rome" track from THREE COINS IN THE FOUNTAIN.
This has been mentioned before. Didn't Victor Young's "Rome" theme from THREE COINS IN THE FOUNTAIN first appear in the 1950 film by Young for SEPTEMBER AFFAIR?
Sorry, I had completely overlooked it that it had already been mentioned a few posts above.
The love theme from SEPTEMBER AFFAIR has been reused by Young for the "Barcarolle" track (the episode in Venice) in THREE COINS IN THE FOUNTAIN which is track 7 on the Varese CD, but I don't think that the "Rome" track which has different music did first appear there. At least it's not on the Kritzerland CD of SEPTEMBER AFFAIR.
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I've often wondered if... Sinatra, at all, had done the commissioning and not a record exec for the label.
Sinatra was very involved in the process and had been conducting for several years prior to this project. Among many classically trained musicians, he was actually known to be quite a fine conductor. I suspect he chose some of the pieces and other pieces were suggested, but the final decisions were undoubtedly Sinatra's.
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