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Fun fact!
The number of TZ episodes with tracked in Goldsmith, excluding his own seven originally score episodes, is 51.
Out of the 156 episodes, only about 104 would have been allowed tracked in music, so the ratio is almost half, for use of his stuff in the Zones without original scores.
Now you know that.
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Next stop is October 11? Can your confirm, please?
The plan is for October 11 to be my full length one-on-one interview with Leonard Slatkin (!) who remembers Jerry coming over for dinner as a friend of his parents while growing up in Hollywood, and who later selected Jerry as the composer for the first work he ever commissioned as a conductor (Music for Orchestra).
There's another interview we also hope to put out before the end of the year, but we are hoping to time it with something. We are planning to record our first podcast on Gunsmoke soon...we've recently learned that cues from Jerry's first score for the series, "Doc Judge", was used on both Twilight Zone and Rawhide later -- good factoids to know before recording! Of course all CBS shows (including other genres like Perry Mason) were part of this music sharing. That's one reason I'm so glad we covered the Goldsmith library cues available on Twilight Zone isolated scores (and the TransWorld 78s), as they were used on various famous (and not so famous) shows, without him being credited (on screen that is; obviously the cue sheets bear his name as we showed in our Episode 13 cover art using "Knife Chord").
Yavar
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Oct 10, 2018 - 10:30 PM
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Rollin Hand
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Odyssey Interviews - Leonard Slatkin
http://goldsmithodyssey.buzzsprout.com/159614/824863-odyssey-interviews-leonard-slatkin
We are pleased to present the first installment of Odyssey Interviews, an occasional feature that will offer interviews with special guests who have some connection to Jerry Goldsmith and/or his music. In our debut interview, Yavar has a conversation with internationally acclaimed conductor Leonard Slatkin, Music Director Laureate of the Detroit Symphony. Slatkin maintains a rigorous schedule of guest conducting (he has conducted virtually all of the leading orchestras in the world) and is active as a composer, author, and educator. He has received 6 Grammy Awards and 33 nominations, and is a recipient of the prestigious National Medal of the Arts. Over the course of this interview, Slatkin discusses growing up in the world of film music, his family's relationship with Goldsmith, commissioning Goldsmith's Music for Orchestra, and much more. For up-to-date information on Leonard Slatkin and his work, visit his website.
http://www.leonardslatkin.com
Duration
01:13:41
Music in the Episode
00:00 - C2 Logo Fanfare
16:17 - Magic - Main Title
17:08 - Capricorn One - Break Out
21:03 - Christus Apollo - Part II
27:15 - Patton - No Assignment
41:23 - Music For Orchestra
56:05 - Star Trek: The Motion Picture - Leaving Drydock (Early Version)
58:37 - KSD News Theme (composed by Leonard Slatkin)
1:11:51 - Music For Orchestra
Also Discussed
The opening of How to Marry a Millionaire
https://vimeo.com/151776321
KSDK TV 5 News Open
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyTy6uq7xVU
The Goldsmith Odyssey: All Episodes
http://goldsmithodyssey.buzzsprout.com
Contact The Goldsmith Odyssey
mail@goldsmithodyssey.com
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Very happy how this turned out as it's actually the first real interview I've ever conducted. Hope you all enjoy, and I look forward to hearing your thoughts.
Yavar
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He sounds interested, though of course there's still the relatively recent recording that Goldsmith himself conducted the LSO on, with that exact pairing plus Fireworks. I'd personally be much more excited if Slatkin were to tackle a different pairing with Music for Orchestra (which of course would be important as he commissioned the work but never put out a commercial recording of it on disc). A new recording of 1489 Words would be most amazing...and what if Goldsmith's unfinished cello concerto, "Quadrants", could be unearthed?
Yavar
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Oct 24, 2018 - 11:26 PM
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Rollin Hand
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Odyssey Interviews - Cliff Eidelman
http://goldsmithodyssey.buzzsprout.com/159614/827526-odyssey-interviews-cliff-eidelman
In our second installment of Odyssey Interviews, Yavar has a conversation with film composer and conductor Cliff Eidelman. Eidelman is perhaps best known for his striking score for Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, and has scored such diverse projects as Leap of Faith, Triumph of the Spirit, The Meteor Man, and The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. Eidelman has also written a variety of works for the concert hall, some of which will be featured on an album being released this fall. Over the course of this interview, Eidelman talks about his personal encounters with Jerry Goldsmith, the unique challenges of conducting Goldsmith's work, his current musical endeavors, and much more.
Note: Since this interview was conducted, the digital release date for Cliff Eidelman's "Symphony for Orchestra and Two Pianos" has shifted to early November instead of late October. For up-to-date information on Eidelman and his work, visit his website.
https://www.cliffeidelman.com
Duration
01:11:42
Music in the Episode
00:00 - C2 Logo Fanfare (Goldsmith)
02:14 - Christopher Columbus: The Discovery - The Great Sea (Eidelman)
06:41 - Planet of the Apes - No Escape (Goldsmith)
10:02 - Rudy - The Final Game (Goldsmith)
17:49 - Alien - Breakaway (Eidelman conducting Goldsmith)
35:56 - Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country - Sign Off (Eidelman)
43:01 - The Tempest: Tone Poem for Orchestra (Eidelman)
47:01 - Symphony for Orchestra and Two Pianos (Eidelman)
49:01 - Symphony for Orchestra and Two Pianos (Eidelman)
52:45 - Night in the Gallery - Seduction and Mischief (Eidelman)
53:57 - Night in the Gallery - The Tempest and the Mysterious Clown (Eidelman)
56:24 - Being Dolphin 4D (Eidelman)
1:08:15 - Rudy - The Final Game (Eidelman conducting Goldsmith)
The Goldsmith Odyssey: All Episodes
http://goldsmithodyssey.buzzsprout.com
Contact The Goldsmith Odyssey
mail@goldsmithodyssey.com
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Conducting this interview was a complete delight, and I think my experience interviewing Leonard Slatkin enabled me to do a bit smoother job on this one. I was really touched by what my friend Jens wrote on Facebook, so I hope he won't mind if I share it here:
"Yavar interviewing Cliff Eidelman is my favorite episode of the The Goldsmith Odyssey to date. Eidelman’s ebullience and joie de vivre is infectious, and his admiration for Jerry Goldsmith is truly touching. This episode also led to me discovering some marvelous Eidelman compositions I was previously unaware of. Much fine music is discussed and played."
I hope you all enjoy it just as much...and yes we'll finally be back with a regular episode in a couple of weeks, covering Gunsmoke (we recorded just last night, in fact).
Yavar
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Indeed! It results in a pretty loaded first Gunsmoke ep, but we decided it would be cleanest to do them by year to fit chronologically as much as possible (though these three episodes spanned almost the entire 1960 and two separate seasons of the show, so it can't all be perfect, relative to other stuff).
The latter two 1960 Gunsmoke episodes are actually kinda closer to the next two we'll be covering (1961), with Jerry having composed his middle four episode scores all in a single season (the sixth). And then his final one was composed a whopping six years/seasons later, after the show had not only gone to an hour in length but was also in color!
Yavar
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We know! In fact a listener Thomas Ruicki was kind enough to tell of us multiple uses of it, on Rawhide and also The Twilight Zone. We were just so concerned with getting through Gunsmoke intro and all three episodes, that it unfortunately slipped our minds to mention on the air, even though I'd been mentally noting to do that beforehand...
Also The Wake we have complete from the EZ Cue library of LPs, so I strongly suspect that was tracked into multiple other CBS programs as well. No idea about The Blacksmith.
Yavar
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Oct 25, 2018 - 11:21 AM
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Jens
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"Doc Judge" was so good that Gene Feldman tracked some of its cues on other CBS series like Rawhide!
While far from my favorite of Jerry's Gunsmoke scores, I am thinking "Doc Judge" may be the most versatile of them due to its reliance on concise brass motives, and not being as overtly westerny in instrumentation as the others. It is hardly surprising that it was in heavy rotation at CBS.
We know! In fact a listener Thomas Ruicki was kind enough to tell of us multiple uses of it, on Rawhide and also The Twilight Zone. We were just so concerned with getting through Gunsmoke intro and all three episodes, that it unfortunately slipped our minds to mention on the air, even though I'd been mentally noting to do that beforehand...
Much as we all love getting into that minutia off the air, I frankly don't think it's at all necessary for the show, because we already explained in depth before how the CBS music library was managed, that every newly recorded score was added to it for the purpose of reuse, and that there was a ton of cross-pollination between shows.
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Yeah, I wasn't going to get too in depth, but I wanted to say about Doc Judge: "If you've never watched Gunsmoke and some of this music sounds familiar, that's probably because it was reused several times on The Twilight Zone and Rawhide, among other shows."
Yavar
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