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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: Elliot Goldenthal and The Soviet Workers   Last Post   Posted:   Sep 4, 2016 - 4:59 AM     By:   daretodream   (Member) “Two Days in the Life of a Soviet Worker” is the title of his new concert work which will be premiered next January at Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre. “As an Oscar-winning film composer, he’s just sort of pigeon-holed a little bit. So we looked at a few different things, and this waltz, ‘Two Days in the Life of a Soviet Worker ’ jumped out at me as a perfect fit for the Shostakovich concert. And these pieces come from some film music he wrote a while back, but they’ve never been performed in concert. So this is the world concert premiere of that.” This is wonderful news because I love his waltzes, the sardonic ones. Smaug, any idea which scores Stare was referring to? http://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/lifestyle/music/2016/02/09/yo-yo-ma-highlights-rpo-2016-17-season/80069278/ http://www.wardstare.com/schedule/2017/    Posted:   Sep 4, 2016 - 6:04 AM     By:   Thor   (Member) Good to hear that he's keeping busy, but I have a couple of wishes. 1) That he writes more original stuff and not only adapts earlier material. 2) That he gets the chance to record more of his older and newer material 3) That he scores more films, not only those for Julie Taymour once upon a blue moon    Posted:   Sep 4, 2016 - 6:20 AM     By:   John B. Archibald   (Member) I've been wondering about him, ever since he had brain damage from leaning back in a chair in his kitchen, then falling and hitting his head. He really hasn't done much since then, and I wonder if he's even capable of it?    Posted:   Sep 4, 2016 - 6:25 AM     By:   daretodream   (Member) I agree, but let us not be selfish and just be grateful that he is still active at all.    Posted:   Sep 4, 2016 - 7:04 AM     By:   Thor   (Member) Oh, I am. It's just the fanboy in me wishing for things to be as they were in the 90s.    Posted:   Sep 4, 2016 - 7:13 AM     By:   Jim Phelps   (Member) I've been wondering about him, ever since he had brain damage from leaning back in a chair in his kitchen, then falling and hitting his head. He really hasn't done much since then, and I wonder if he's even capable of it? Is that how it happened?!? There's no mention of the way he injured himself--or any mention of it at all--on his Wikipedia page, but then that would hurt his employment chances more than they already have been.    Posted:   Sep 4, 2016 - 7:41 AM     By:   Thor   (Member) I've been wondering about him, ever since he had brain damage from leaning back in a chair in his kitchen, then falling and hitting his head. He really hasn't done much since then, and I wonder if he's even capable of it? Is that how it happened?!? There's no mention of the way he injured himself--or any mention of it at all--on his Wikipedia page, but then that would hurt his employment chances more than they already have been. There was a lot of writing about it way back when it happened (is it like 7-8 years ago now?), and Goldenthal talked candidly about it then; I even talked to him about it in my first interview with him back in 2010.    Posted:   Sep 4, 2016 - 9:16 PM     By:   Smaug   (Member) I've been thinking a lot about this kind of thing recently in regards to John Williams. Integral to John Williams' story of how he infiltrated all our lives is his association with Boston. Of course he had to write all that music but he also had to set aside all those weeks every year to do concerts and recordings. Perhaps most unappreciated in this equation was that all his scores were prepared for concert performance. Most film composers don't have the time, inclination, or sometimes even the right to make concert treatments of their scores. So when I see all the recent effort by Goldenthal to really put his scores in order and not only make suites, but composing new music to make them real concert pieces I really wish all my other favorite composers would take the initiative.    Posted:   Sep 5, 2016 - 10:54 AM     By:   daretodream   (Member) I've been thinking a lot about this kind of thing recently in regards to John Williams. Integral to John Williams' story of how he infiltrated all our lives is his association with Boston. Of course he had to write all that music but he also had to set aside all those weeks every year to do concerts and recordings. Perhaps most unappreciated in this equation was that all his scores were prepared for concert performance. Most film composers don't have the time, inclination, or sometimes even the right to make concert treatments of their scores. So when I see all the recent effort by Goldenthal to really put his scores in order and not only make suites, but composing new music to make them real concert pieces I really wish all my other favorite composers would take the initiative. Speaking of which, did Goldenthal need to obtain permission from studios first before he started working on his Symphony in G minor? If yes, then could you please elaborate on that and what's the process like? As far as concert hall music, which composers do you think have real knack for that? Elfman or Shore perhaps?    Posted:   Sep 5, 2016 - 7:27 PM     By:   TerraEpon   (Member) .    Posted:   Sep 5, 2016 - 8:37 PM     By:   Smaug   (Member) As far as concert hall music, which composers do you think have real knack for that? Elfman or Shore perhaps? Hmm, that's a tough question. I am about to hear the Elfman Burton show next month. I liked the suites he assembled for the 'Music for a Darkened Theater' releases. Judging from the TV broadcast of that show (I keep saying show because those Elfman suites aren't available outside the context of booking that whole show), he did a good job. But Williams worked on his concert arrangements year in an year out for 35 years. Most importantly the music was and is available to everyone. Elfman needs some more opportunities to make suites for all his other non-Burton scores. Shore...I would have liked to see his recent Pittsburgh show. I think certain scores like LOTR (obviously) and The Aviator, Hugo have lots of good stuff which would hold interest on the concert stage. With that said, I don't know how things like Silence of the Lambs would work. I would kill to hear a piece from The Cell with the Jajouka guys. It's really extra sad about Horner because it seems he was just getting into doing concerts. We have a great 18 minute Titanic suite from him. I want meaty 18-25 minute suites and no little things like "Theme from..." Herrmann did great suites like the 14 minute Psycho 'narrative' or any of those great pieces he did on Decca.    Posted:   Sep 5, 2016 - 8:39 PM     By:   smuli of finland   (Member) I am one half soviet worker, one half Goldenthal die-hard fan and one half Goldenthal completist-collector. This is exciting news, all for the common good. Although I long and yearn for the days he still did music for films. Such complex composing. Someone to take his place there isn't. Oh those beautiful vocals of his in Cobb.    Posted:   Sep 5, 2016 - 9:06 PM     By:   Smaug   (Member) I am one half soviet worker, one half Goldenthal die-hard fan and one half Goldenthal completist-collector. This is exciting news, all for the common good. Although I long and yearn for the days he still did music for films. Such complex composing. Someone to take his place there isn't. Oh those beautiful vocals of his in Cobb. Goldenthal's vocals is a thread in itself: layering his own voice at the beginning of Cobb, screaming in the middle of Alien 3, the character in Juan Darien...I also recall him singing like blues songs or something on one of his early scores...    Posted:   Jan 20, 2017 - 3:08 PM     By:   Smaug   (Member) Preview of the piece now called "Waltz & Agitato": http://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/lifestyle/2017/01/19/oscar-winning-film-composer-has-world-premiere-rpo/96770988/    Posted:   Jan 20, 2017 - 3:34 PM     By:   daretodream   (Member) Thanks for the link, Smaug. Any idea when AMND CD is coming? I thought they were supposed to release it last Nov/Dec.    Posted:   Jan 20, 2017 - 6:12 PM     By:   Smaug   (Member) You asking me? I don't know!    Posted:   Jan 20, 2017 - 6:30 PM     By:   daretodream   (Member) You asking me? I don't know! O yes, that's right. I forgot! 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