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I don't know. Jarre music to me can always be peg'd as Jarre music.
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Wonderful piece! I didn't realize this was making the rounds. I guess I've been out of the loop!
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Dec 20, 2008 - 7:29 PM
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RonBurbella
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Jarre's Main Title is a very "fluid" cue, if you'll excuse the pun. I agree with Morricone, that there seems no reason to reject the score based on that cue. I personally think the director fell in love with the beautifully poignant temp cue, the folk song "O Waly, Waly" from the British Isles. So much so that he wanted a score based on it. Jerry Goldsmith adapted it into the score quite well. I saw somewhere (perhaps on Film Music Masters "Tribute" VHS/DVD") that Jerry had not heard "O Waly, Waly" before being commissioned to replace Maurice Jarre's score. For those of you with an old 10-LP Box Set from Reader's Digest called BACKGROUND MOODS produced and conducted by some young whippersnapper called Charles Gerhardt and engineered by another newcomer named Kenneth Wilkinson, there is a gorgeous presentation of "O Waly, Waly" on the first LP. Here are stanzas one and five (of six) and you can hum Goldsmith's adaption of the theme to it: O WALY, WALY The water is wide, I cannot get o'er, And neither have I wings to fly. Give me a boat that will carry two And both shall row, my love and I. A ship there is and she sail the sea, She's loaded deep as deep can be. But not so deep as the love I'm in. I know not if I sink or swim. I was sitting there in the theater on the premier weekend waiting to hear the newest Jerry Goldsmith score, and what the...??? That's not Goldsmith. That's O WALY, WALY!!! Charles Gerhardt put it on the LP side "In A Haunting Mood" and most haunting it is. The late 1960s/early 1970s box set (RD-26-K), for those of you with a working LP turntable, is well worth seeking out. Ron Burbella
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