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TITANIC does not get old! I've been listening to it on my iPod during my walks the past couple of days. It's as beautiful and fresh today as it was ten years ago.
I love the patience and confidence shown in the slow, extended vocalizations, like the first part of "Hymn to the Sea." Horner knows when a note is worth holding long, and then a pause is held, and then the slow notes come again. Horner was confident that it was good enough to savor, that he was evoking something gorgeous.
There's nothing worse than hearing a bit you really like, but it's too short and then it's gone. TITANIC serves nice, full portions of all its best themes.
For me BACK TO TITANIC is kind of wrecked by the dialog sound clips, which can seem to cheapen the experience by insulting our maturity. Some in the audience may be pining for Leonardo DiCaprio, but I'm here for the music. However BTT does have "The Portrait" cue.
TITANIC: THE ULTIMATE COLLECTION has an exquisite rendering of "The Portrait" piano solo. Better than Horner's own playing on BTT. And you get a bunch of other music to recommend it, too. I would go with this one for a second TITANIC CD rather than BTT.
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TITANIC does not get old! I've been listening to it on my iPod during my walks the past couple of days. It's as beautiful and fresh today as it was ten years ago.
I love the patience and confidence shown in the slow, extended vocalizations, like the first part of "Hymn to the Sea." Horner knows when a note is worth holding long, and then a pause is held, and then the slow notes come again. Horner was confident that it was good enough to savor, that he was evoking something gorgeous.
There's nothing worse than hearing a bit you really like, but it's too short and then it's gone. TITANIC serves nice, full portions of all its best themes.
For me BACK TO TITANIC is kind of wrecked by the dialog sound clips, which can seem to cheapen the experience by insulting our maturity. Some in the audience may be pining for Leonardo DiCaprio, but I'm here for the music. However BTT does have "The Portrait" cue.
TITANIC: THE ULTIMATE COLLECTION has an exquisite rendering of "The Portrait" piano solo. Better than Horner's own playing on BTT. And you get a bunch of other music to recommend it, too. I would go with this one for a second TITANIC CD rather than BTT.
Glad you like Titanic: The Ultimate Collection. Randy Miller did a great job conducting and you're right about Terry Trotter's reading of the piano solo - but then again, Terry Trotter is one of the great pianists working today - we've done about eleven albums together.
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Glad you like Titanic: The Ultimate Collection. Randy Miller did a great job conducting and you're right about Terry Trotter's reading of the piano solo - but then again, Terry Trotter is one of the great pianists working today - we've done about eleven albums together.
No question about it. I think his name should have been in the credits, but I suppose that's a contractual matter.
BTW, the CD's page at Varese's website is messed up. Is it sold out or something?
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Not sure if it's sold out or what - shouldn't be. That CD is my biggest seller out of the over 160 that I've personally done (not counting reissues or stuff like that). It spent about forty-two weeks on the Billboard classical crossover chart (entering at number two) - I don't think Varese ever had anything on a chart for that number of weeks, before or since, unless it was Ghost. Certainly, it was their biggest seller the year it came out, and certainly it's their biggest-selling rerecording ever. I didn't do many things that lost money there, but I like to say that Titanic paid for any sins I may have had, CD-wise.
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Yeah, let me echo the remarks on the piano solo on "The Portrait." I bought that CD originally for this piece, and it really is better than the original. Wacky!
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Shaun I did the exact same thing, bought it for the Portrait, and I must have listened to taht part SO many times. Glad they did a Volume 2 and put it on there. There are several parts of the score I wish were on the original SDTK, there is a pretty little piano tune/theme/melody when Rose looks at the artifacts early in the film, that is so pretty, that comes to play throughout the film, but it's no where on either sdtk and also the part at the end, when Rose, passes away and it pans across the pictures of things she got to do that she was going to do with Jack and then she joins him on the Titanic, that piece is great, man I would love to have that piece as well.
Over all, love the SDTK, and really loved the Varese album, great job Haines, by the way...
I was listening to Return to Oz, the second to last track, man that is some incredibly moving beautiful music!!
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there is a pretty little piano tune/theme/melody when Rose looks at the artifacts early in the film, that is so pretty, that comes to play throughout the film, but it's no where on either sdtk
I know exactley the piece of music that you are referring to, and agree that it is a beautiful cue. That first sequence where we hear the cue and Rose handles the artifacts is evocative of memories of long past, and is a beautiful cinematic moment on its own.
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I'm not the greatest Horner fan in the world but I do love this score. It works so well for the film. Away from the movie it has an emotional resonance that is really wonderful.
A great listening experience.
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you are all men/women of culture and taste.
i salute you!
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Love the score-- so many memories. I clearly remember being so disappointed that my favorite cue from the film was not on the initial album ("A Building Panic").
I was in 6th grade when Titanic came out (such a young pup!). I clearly remember Titanic fever-- it was truly the last big "event" movie IMO and nothing (not even Avatar, which I also loved) has come close to it since. Besides being a great film, there were some cultural factors that contributed to it's success--
The film truly had wide appeal- history buffs, action lovers, romance, high drama-- even some comedic scenes. It had Kate and Leo for the teens and established name actors that appealed to the adults. PG-13 also. In 1997 DVD hadn't really hit that big (or it was just starting to...can't remember). So home theaters and the sort only catered to Laserdisc owners and the majority of the world was VHS. Going to the theater was about the only way to enjoy a movie in great quality. There wasn't a 3 month window between theatrical and home video release-- so people HAD to see it or they'd be waiting for almost a year (I think it came out on VHS in September 1998).
The internet was also in its infancy so a lot of the push for the film happened on TV and radio. I remember countless documentaries, making-ofs, oprah appearances...media exposure EVERYWHERE (MTV, History Channel, Sci-Fi(!), etc.). "My Heart Will Go On" was a radio staple for a good chunk of the year. I don't really look at the box office as a measure of it's success-- I look at the cultural impact. Avatar might have made more money but the cultural impact was nowhere near Titanic proportions.
Would a 3+ hour film have that kind of impact today-- especially with DVD releases so soon after the theatrical run and the explosion of the internet? It was lighting in a bottle. It was a beautiful film that hit in the right place at the right time.
I think the success of it was the combination of a fantastic, timeless film with wide appeal + the cultural landscape of the times.
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I get this out once in a while. I like the first several tracks, the upbeat tracks with a beat. Not a big big fan of the action stuff, don't get me wrong, it's good, but the Southhampton cue and those few around that are my favorite!!
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. I don't really look at the box office-- I just remember the whole world going gaga over it. Avatar made more money and was a sort of "event" picture, but the impact was nowhere near Titanic proportions.
It was simply a well rounded and wonderfully crafted film with a lot of media hype leading up to it. BUT, it also struck at just the right moment/time in history and that is why it did so well. Would a 3+ hour film have that kind of impact today-- especially with DVD releases so soon after the theatrical run and the explosion of the internet? It was lighting in a bottle and I don't think it'll ever be repeated again. It was in the right place at the right time.
Michael
TITANIC was the number one grossing film in the country for 5 months. TWENTY f'n WEEKS INA ROW!
AVATAR was #1 for 5 weeks iirc.
that tells more about the relative cultural impact of the films than the total grosses.
Detractors always talk about the "hype" as if the public will buy anything if it is advertised enough (i can think of dozens of films that were more 'hyped than this one) More importantly, the press was overwhelmingly NEGATIVE!
The public made this film a hit - not critics or salesmen- and the snobs here just cant deal with it.
MY TAKE ON ITS SUCCESS.
IT has that mythic quality that touches the soul in all of us. STAR WARS, ET, THE LION KING, are other films that have it. Check out roger Ebert's essay on this posted below
bruce
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Titanic, LOVE the film, LOVE the story and LOVE the score.
Fabulous score, now if only someone would release a complete (Dialogue / Sound Effects free)
version, I'd be a very happy Titanic fan.
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gosh, isn't the cd 70 plus minutes?
if the only music missing is the action cues, i am content with what i have.
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