Now that we're moving right along with getting Dial M into production, I'm taking a VERY preliminary pulse on potential future projects. Nothing pressing, just looking to see what the future might hold and you're a part of it! For a poll and more details, see here:
Not that we're going to dive right into another Kickstarter right away (especially since I want to see how the costs actually come out compared to the budget), but thought I would get a preliminary sense of popularity on a few titles. You can vote for up to three. This is just to get an early pulse. Don't be offended if ultimately we don't chose the most popular title, as there are a lot of factors that go into what to record that goes beyond the most popular. I would love to do Jungle Book, but it's big with chorus and could easily cost $20K more than the more straight forward Dial M...making it possibly harder to raise the funds for, even if more popular. Not that that wouldn't stop us from trying necessarily. . Feel free to write in any suggestions in the thread itself, we'll watch and ponder. We aren't considering titles that elements exist or have good enough releases out already (sorry...no Lionheart). In the meantime, we have work to do to get Dial M going.
• Jungle Book • Suspicion • The Man Who Knew Too Much • Face of a Fugitive/Black Patch • Strangers on a Train • The Haunting • Joan of Arc • Brute Force
You get to vote on 3 scores.
I strongly suggest that you participate so that Intrada knows what WE really want.
My feeling is that too few voices exert too much influence. Just saying.
I can enthusiastically get behind most of these choices of course, but I'm so excited he's got Black Patch and Face of a Fugitive included TOGETHER on the poll! Fellow Goldsmith nuts, go VOTE! Just imagine this lovely long-lined main theme in glorious modern stereo sound, without dialogue and sound effects --
Thanks! Well, the best thing I can do is point people towards the Goldsmith Odyssey episodes on these two fine western scores. We don't play every cue, but we play most of them for Face of a Fugitive, and highlights from Black Patch (this was our Episode 1 after all, before we had fully figured out our format):
But for those who aren't inclined to listen to a podcast, I can post the main titles for Face of a Fugitive at least (got a strong Andre Previn/Miklos Rozsa flavor to me, and a few themes of the score are introduced...though there are other cues later in the score which I'd consider greater highlights):
EDIT: I found the whole film (in low quality) on YouTube -- skip to 1:11:26 for the final kick-ass action cue!
In addition there's a beautiful love theme in Face of a Fugitive that's maybe the most Golden Age-style love theme Jerry ever wrote, plus my favorite theme in the score: a mournful one for the main character's brother.
As I posted on Intrada: I'm definitely for JUNGLE BOOK, first and foremost. It's THE score that first got me into film music! There's so much more to it than can be heard in the popular concert suite, and the surviving archival tracks are so very compromised. One thing I haven't done is attempt a serious comparison of the orchestrations between the suite and the film versions of cues, but it seems possible that having the former would make reconstructing the latter significantly easier than doing it by ear alone, and perhaps that would be a time/money saver. Anyway, it certainly gets my vote!
The carousel finale music from Strangers On The Train is more than enough to get me to vote for that. I haven't seen the movie for years, but I remember loving that cue.
Maybe next time -- Kaper has never received a modern re-recording of anything sadly, and I can't think of a better one to try than Green Dolphin Street, since its known/liked and otherwise lost to time!
How do you vote? I got an e-mail from Kick Starter as a contributor, but no access to voting.
You have to become a member of the Intrada forum to vote. This is just an informal poll on their forum to gauge interest, by the way. As Roger wrote, "thought I would get a preliminary sense of popularity on a few titles. You can vote for up to three. This is just to get an early pulse. Don't be offended if ultimately we don't chose the most popular title, as there are a lot of factors that go into what to record that goes beyond the most popular."
Maybe next time -- Kaper has never received a modern re-recording of anything sadly, and I can't think of a better one to try than Green Dolphin Street, since its known/liked and otherwise lost to time!
Yavar
So how do I vote? Just list 3 scores from the list here?
After you log into the Intrada forum and click on the thread (the one linked above), it will give you a series of options. You can check mark up to three choices, and then submit -- you've voted!
