There are still quite a few scores I would dearly love to have:
PORK CHOP HILL (1959) THE SAVAGE EYE (1960) THE OUTSIDER (1961) COUNTDOWN (1968) RACE WITH THE DEVIL (1975) I understand this score is MIA at Fox THE CAR MAKING LOVE SYLVIA HEART OF THE STAG
Unreleased Leonard Rosenman from 1955 through 1962 (pre-Italy)
East Of Eden Rebel Without A Cause Young Stranger Bombers B-52 Lafayette Escadrille Pork Chop Hill Law Of The Plainsman (TV series) Rise And Fall Of Legs Diamond Bramble Bush Savage Eye Crowded Sky Plunderers, The Outsider, The Hell Is For Heroes - released February 2013 on Intrada Convicts Four Chapman Report (original Warner Bros. mono sound recordings exist)
Before departing for Italy mid-1962, Leonard Rosenman (it's my understanding) orchestrated his own scores.
After having met Ralph Ferraro in Italy, most of Rosenman's scores from about 1968 onwards were orchestrated by Ferraro.
Rosenman's underscore comes after 1:55 minutes into this preview clip:
more unreleased Rosenman (after FANTASTIC VOYAGE & DR. LEAKY)
Covenant With Death, A Garrison's Gorillas (TV series) Virginian, The (TV series) Stranger On The Run (TV movie) Alexander The Great - released August 2012 on FMS Countdown Shadow Over Elveron (TV movie) 500 Million Years Beneath The Sea (the other National Geographic episode) Any Second Now (most of the following are TV titles...) Marcus Welby, M.D. This Savage Land Primus Vanished Banyon In Broad Daylight Todd Killings Octopus, Octopus Bravos, The Cat Creature Nakia Judge Dee And The Monastary Murders First 36 Hours Of Dr. Durant Sky Heist Race With The Devil Birch Interval Lanigan's Rabbi Kingston: Confidential The Last Hard Men (rejected score) - released December 2012 on Intrada Dental Dynamiter Gibbsville Sybil - released August 2012 on FMS Possessed Car, The Rafferty Dead Man's Truth Mary White Other Side Of Hell Enemy Of The People Friendly Fire Promises In The Dark Nero Wolfe City In Fear Jazz Singer Murder In Texas Falcon Crest (unaired) Making Love Wall, The Miss Lonelyhearts Celebrity Return Of Marcus Welby, M.D. Heart Of The Stag Heartsounds First Steps Sylvia Portraits Of Canada (doc) Promised A Miracle Body Wars - released August 2012 on FMS Where Pigeons Go To Die - released August 2012 on FMS Aftermath: A Test Of Love Ambition Circles In A Forest Color Of Evening Face On The Milk Carton West Side Waltz (unused) Mrs. Munck Levitation (1997)
And of course the unused score for The Long Hard Men (1976) (perhaps doesn't survive) and the unused, unreleased, mostly unrecorded The West Side Waltz (1995).
more unreleased Rosenman (after FANTASTIC VOYAGE & DR. LEAKY)
Covenant With Death, A Garrison's Gorillas (TV series) Virginian, The (TV series) Stranger On The Run (TV movie) Alexander The Great (busted TV pilot with William Shatner) Countdown Shadow Over Elveron (TV movie) 500 Million Years Beneath The Sea (the other National Geographic episode) Any Second Now (most of the following are TV titles...) Marcus Welby, M.D. This Savage Land Primus Vanished Banyon In Broad Daylight Todd Killings Octopus, Octopus Bravos, The Cat Creature Nakia Judge Dee And The Monastary Murders First 36 Hours Of Dr. Durant Sky Heist Race With The Devil Birch Interval Lanigan's Rabbi Kingston: Confidential Dental Dynamiter Gibbsville Sybil Possessed Car, The Rafferty Dead Man's Truth Mary White Other Side Of Hell Enemy Of The People Friendly Fire Promises In The Dark Nero Wolfe City In Fear Jazz Singer Murder In Texas Falcon Crest (unaired) Making Love Wall, The Miss Lonelyhearts Celebrity Return Of Marcus Welby, M.D. Heart Of The Stag Heartsounds First Steps Sylvia Promised A Miracle Where Pigeons Go To Die Aftermath: A Test Of Love Ambition Circles In A Forest Color Of Evening Face On The Milk Carton Mrs. Munck Levitation
What is "Octopus, Octopus"? You also left out "Portraits oF Canada", for which the documentary we shown at Canada's Expo '86, and was seen at Walt Disney World in Florida.
Of course, I'd love to see any unreleased Rosenman put into the "released" category - but, of his later output, it'd be great to see his "Heart of the Stag" and "Circles in a Forest" put into release - as well as his two Emmy winners, the highly inventive "Sybil," and "Friendly Fire." Finally, I certainly wouldn't begrudge any label if they wanted to reissue or expand his "9/30/55" score, wherein he revisits his immortal "East of Eden" and "Rebel Without a Cause" material. Honestly, though, I'd be delighted to see anything.
A minor addition to something ToneRow mentioned in his earlier post - while Leonard did do a good deal of his own orchestration in those earlier years, Maurice DePackh's name (he who also orchestrated for Alex North, among others) appears on a few "Rebel" cues, and Johnny Mandel once told me that he orchestrated "The Chapman Report."
A minor addition to something ToneRow mentioned in his earlier post - while Leonard did do a good deal of his own orchestration in those earlier years, Maurice DePackh's name (he who also orchestrated for Alex North, among others) appears on a few "Rebel" cues, and Johnny Mandel once told me that he orchestrated "The Chapman Report."
Maurice de Packh is also credited with orchestrations for the score of LAFAYETTE ESCADRILLE.
What is "Octopus, Octopus"? You also left out "Portraits oF Canada", for which the documentary we shown at Canada's Expo '86, and was seen at Walt Disney World in Florida.
Feel free to add any title that I may not be aware of, like that documentary on Canada.
"Octopus, Octopus" is a 1971 segment of the UNDERSEA WORLD OF JACQUES COUSTEAU; according to IMDB, it was broadcast December 21, 1971.
A minor addition to something ToneRow mentioned in his earlier post - while Leonard did do a good deal of his own orchestration in those earlier years, Maurice DePackh's name (he who also orchestrated for Alex North, among others) appears on a few "Rebel" cues, and Johnny Mandel once told me that he orchestrated "The Chapman Report."
Thanks for your input, Eccles.
Perhaps Johnny Mandel did the orchestrations for the film's sound recordings, because (as I understand it) when Rosenman re-recorded CHAPMAN REPORT in Italy for Warner Bros' LP album, the arrangments were purportedly done by Ralph Ferraro ... isn't this so?
Insofar as what I remember Ralph telling me, he only arranged the version of the "East of Eden" theme for "The Chapman Report" LP - which was the first thing he orchestrated for Leonard. Leonard's then wife, Kay Scott, liked the chart very much. From that (and the fact that Ralph was one of the few English speakers in the orchestra), a lengthy composer/orchestrator relationship was borne. I do believe, however, that Ferraro performed on "The Chapman Report" LP as a drummer/percussionist.
EDIT: Also, regarding "The Savage Eye," much (if not all) of that score is taken from Leonard's "Chamber Music I" (aka "Chamber Symphony") - which is definitely a piece in need of recording. I don't honestly recall there being any differences between the two (except for the in-out points of each cue).
EDIT TWO: ToneRow, you should add Rosenman's score to the EPCOT attraction "Body Wars" to your list - I don't remember the exact figure, but I think he wrote somewhere around ten minutes of material for it. I'm not sure if it could be released or paired with anything (because of licensing issues and so forth), but it'd be neat to have that in circulation.
...any further unreleased music by Leonard Rosenman that anybody wishes to add?
It's interesting to note that the Rosenman CD discography since 1998 up to the present has been mainly from either FSM or Intrada.
With exception of Rosenman's "And When The Sky Was Opened" music from THE TWILIGHT ZONE, and ROBOCOP2, there hasn't been any other Rosenman scores on Varese Sarabande (... I think ...).
This seems to imply that Robert Townson is not an adovate of Rosenman's soundtracks, and, with FSM ceasing production lines, the only hope of Rosenman soundtracks in the future rests with Intrada ... unless a label such as Quartet has Rosenman in their pipeline ...
Yes, you're quite right in that the Varese issuances of Rosenman are limited to the two you've mentioned - it'd be nice to get an expanded "RoboCop 2." While it's a fun album as it stands, it leaves out a lot of the more diverse material - perhaps it could get tossed on a 2-CD set with an expanded "RoboCop 3," and two birds would get killed with one jewel case.
One quick thing you may want to fix, the name of the rejected western score by Leonard was "The Last Hard Men."
In addition to the "Body Wars" ride itself, I believe Leonard also wrote music for the surrounding pre-show and such as well - not that that makes any impact on the exemplary list you've assembled - just wanted to point out that there's even more music in them thar hills.
Here's hoping Intrada (or any other label, really) sends a few more Rosenman albums our way this year.
EDIT: I've seen manuscripts for a score by Leonard called "Mind Game," that I've been trying to track down the provenance of. It's a later period Rosenman score (I'd put it somewhere between mid/late1980s-mid 1990s). I haven't found much corresponding information relating to it (looking through movies with that title, a variant on that title, or had it as a working title), and it didn't even look like the parts were taken out of their shrink-wrap - so, naturally, it's a score I'm pretty curious about.
Yes - the finished movie just recycled a bunch of cues from "100 Rifles," and "Stagecoach," too - I think. There may have been another Goldsmith western score re-appropriated for it, too. Leonard himself was not terribly fond of the movie. When discussing it in an interview he did a good while ago, he called it - if I remember right - "reprehensible," or something equally condemnatory.
I've seen manuscripts for a score by Leonard called "Mind Game," ... and it didn't even look like the parts were taken out of their shrink-wrap - so, naturally, it's a score I'm pretty curious about.
I'm curious, Eccles, how many of Rosenman's manuscripts exist complete? (that is, if you are at liberty to disclose & I'm not out of line by asking)
