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Sorry to bump this thread, but upon revisiting this thread, I have a few questions for Thor. First, where did you hear the William Axt score for Greed (I’m only familiar with the Carl Davis and Robert Israel scores, and for this particular year, I would have gone with Huppertz’s score for Die Nibelungen)? Secondly, was the Shostakovich score for October actually used on its initial release, or was it added for a reissue of the film (similar to how a reissue of Potemkin replaced the Edmund Meisel score with one of Shostakovich’s symphonies, I forget which one)?
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Apr 5, 2020 - 9:32 AM
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Thor
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Sorry to bump this thread, but upon revisiting this thread, I have a few questions for Thor. First, where did you hear the William Axt score for Greed (I’m only familiar with the Carl Davis and Robert Israel scores, and for this particular year, I would have gone with Huppertz’s score for Die Nibelungen)? Secondly, was the Shostakovich score for October actually used on its initial release, or was it added for a reissue of the film (similar to how a reissue of Potemkin replaced the Edmund Meisel score with one of Shostakovich’s symphonies, I forget which one)?
I'm not sure I can answer those questions in a satisfactory manner, as it's been too long since I saw them. I saw both of those films in the early 2000s when I studied media (and film) and the university. Some of the films were screened on-campus, others at the local Cinemateque. I'm fairly certian that both OCTOBER and POTEMKIN were screened at the university, while GREED was at the Cinemateque, but other than that, I can't remember much. The score for GREED was crackly and old, and did not sound like a new score by Davis. Nor Israel, who mostly does piano accompaniments, right? So I assumed it was the original Axt.
Perhaps wiser minds can chime in.
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Israel occasionally does orchestral accompaniments, his Greed score being one of them. Regardless of that, I think he only scored the 4-hour reconstruction using stills, and based on your description of what you saw, I’m going to assume it was not that.
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