La-La Land has announced two new CDs for next week -- the first-ever release of the original score tracks from Elmer Bernstein's beloved music to the Oscar-winning original version of TRUE GRIT, and the previously announced CD of Bill Conti's jazzy score for the 1982 remake of I, THE JURY.
The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences has announced this year's winners for the Creative Arts Emmys, including the following music awards:
OUTSTANDING MUSIC COMPOSITION FOR A MINISERIES, MOVIE OR A SPECIAL (ORIGINAL DRAMATIC SCORE)
WORLD WITHOUT END, "Medieval Life And Death" - Mychael Danna
OUTSTANDING MUSIC COMPOSITION FOR A SERIES (ORIGINAL DRAMATIC SCORE)
DOWNTON ABBEY, "Episode 6” - John Lunn
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL MAIN TITLE THEME MUSIC
DA VINCI'S DEMONS - Bear McCreary
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL MUSIC AND LYRICS
66TH ANNUAL TONY AWARDS, "If I Had Time" - Music by David Javerbaum, Lyrics by Adam Schlesinger
OUTSTANDING MUSIC DIRECTION
66TH ANNUAL TONY AWARDS - Elliot Lawrence
Most of our readers probably already know this, but John Mauceri will be conducting a concert of Danny Elfman's music from the films of Tim Burton at the end of Ocotber at L.A.'s Nokia Theater, with Elfman himself performing in person. Ticket sales have been so overwhelming that there will now be three concerts, on October 29, 30 and 31st.
The website ScoreAScore, launched in 2010 by Jordan Passman, helps connect filmmakers and other creators with composers. Follow this link for more information on their services.
CDS AVAILABLE THIS WEEK
Amaren Eskuak: Les Manos de Mi Madre - Pascal Gaigne - Quartet
Arrow: Season One - Blake Neely - Watertower [CD-R]
Austenland - Ilan Eshkeri - Madison Gate [CD-R
The Last Days of Lucifer/Water Marked - Pascal Gaigne - Quartet
Luther - Paul Englishby, songs - Silva
The Pleasure of His Company - Alfred Newman - Kritzerland
Prisoners - Johann Johansson - Watertower [CD-R]
Raging Angels - Terry Plumeri - Intrada Special Collection
Salinger - Lorne Balfe - Decca
Wakolda - Andres Goldstein, Daniel Tarrab - Quartet
The White Dawn - Henry Mancini - Intrada Special Collection
IN THEATERS TODAY
Battle of the Year - Christopher Lennertz
Blue Caprice - Sarah Neufeld, Colin Stetson
C.O.G. - Steve Reich, Joe Berry
The Colony - Jeff Danna
Enough Said - Marcelo Zarvos
First Cousin, Once Removed - Miranda Hentoff
Generation Iron - Jeff Rona
GMO OMG - Jubilee Singers
Haute Cuisine - Gabriel Yared - Score CD Les Saveurs Du Palais on Sony (import)
Ip Man: The Final Fight - Chun Hung Mak
Money for Nothing: Inside the Federal Reserve - Nora Kroll-Rosenbaum
Mother of George - Philip Miller
Newlyweeds - Scott Thorough
Plus One - Nathan Larson
Prisoners - Johann Johansson - Score CD-R on Watertower
Rush - Hans Zimmer - Score CD due Sept. 24 on Watertower
The Short Game - Mark Mothersbaugh
A Single Shot - Atli Orvarsson - Score CD due on MovieScore Media/Kronos
Thanks for Sharing - Christopher Lennertz - Score CD on Milan
COMING SOON
September 24
Adore - Christopher Gordon, Antony Partos - Varese Sarabande
Getaway - Justin Burnett - Varese Sarabande
The Grandmaster - Shigeru Umebayashi, Nathaniel Mechaly - Lakeshore
I, the Jury - Bill Conti - La-La Land
Insidious, Chapter 2 - Joseph Bishara - Void
Killer Crocodile - Riz Ortolani - Kronos
Movie Legends: The Music of John Barry - John Barry - Naxos
Per Gracia Ricevuta - Guido & Maurizio DeAngelis - Digitmovies
Rush - Hans Zimmer - Watertower
Standing Up - Brian Tyler - Varese Sarabande
True Grit - Elmer Bernstein - La-La Land
We Are What We Are - Jeff Grace, Phil Mossman - Milan
October 1
Filth - Clint Mansell - Genepool (import)
For Those I Loved - Maurice Jarre - Music Box
Gravity - Steven Price - Watertower
Les Visiteurs/L'Homme Qui Revient De Loin - Georges Delerue - Music Box
Paranoia - Junkie XL - Sony (import)
October 8
Captain Phillips - Henry Jackman - Varese Sarabande
Colette - Atli Orvarsson - MovieScore Media/Kronos
Romeo and Juliet - Abel Korzeniowski - Sony
The Tall Man - Christopher Young, Joel Drouek, Todd Bryanton - MovieScore Media/Kronos
October 22
Ender's Game - Steve Jablonsky - Varese Sarabande
Fruitvale Station - Ludwig Goransson - Lakeshore
La Mula - Oscar Navarro - MovieScore Media/Kronos
Lost Place - Adrian Sieber - MovieScore Media/Kronos
October 29
All Is Lost - Alex Ebert - Community Music
November 5
Person of Interest: Season Two - Ramin Djawadi - Varese Sarabande
December 10
Saving Mr. Banks - Thomas Newman - Disney
Date Unknown
Doctor Who: Series Seven - Murray Gold - Silva
Doctor Who: The Snowmen/The Doctor, The Widow and the Wardrobe - Murray Gold - SIlva
House at the End of the Drive - Alan Howarth - Buysoundtrax
I Due Para - Piero Umiliani - Digitmovie
Jesse & Lester Due Fratelli In Un Posto Chiamato Trinita - Carlo Savina - GDM
The Last Days of Pompeii - Angelo Francesco Lavagnino - Digitmovie
L'Eredita Ferramonti - Ennio Morricone - GDM
A Single Shot - Atli Orvarsson - MovieScore Media/Kronos
The 25th Reich - Ricky Edwards - MovieScore Media/Kronos
Zulu Dawn - Elmer Bernstein - Buysoundtrax
THIS WEEK IN FILM MUSIC HISTORY
September 20 - Frank DeVol born (1911)
September 20 - James Bernard born (1925)
September 20 - John Dankworth born (1927)
September 20 - Mychael Danna born (1958)
September 20 - Fred Steiner's scores to the Star Trek episodes "The Corbomite Maneuver," "Balance of Terror," and "What Are Little Girls Made Of?" are recorded (1966)
September 20 - Sidney Cutner died (1971)
September 20 - Jack Marshall died (1973)
September 21 - Chico Hamilton born (1921)
September 21 - Mason Daring born (1949)
September 21 - Geoffrey Burgon died (2010)
September 22 - Dimitri Tiomkin begins recording his score for Last Train from Gun Hill (1958)
September 22 - Samuel Matlovsky's score for the Star Trek episode "I, Mudd" is recorded (1967)
September 22 - Charles Previn died (1973)
September 22 - Pat Metheny records his score for the Amazing Stories episode "Grandpa's Ghost" (1985)
September 22 - John Williams begins recording his score for Home Alone (1990)
September 23 - Clifford Vaughan born (1893)
September 23 - David Raksin begins recording his score for The Magnificent Yankee (1950)
September 23 - Dave Grusin begins recording his score to The Yakuza (1974)
September 23 - Craig Safan records his score for the Amazing Stories episode "The Main Attraction"(1985)
September 24 - Douglas Gamley born (1924)
September 24 - Bernard Herrmann begins recording his score to Joy in the Morning (1964)
September 24 - Billy Goldenberg records his score for the Amazing Stories episode "What If...?"(1986)
September 25 - Dmitri Shostakovich born (1906)
September 25 - Michael Gibbs born (1937)
September 25 - Randy Kerber born (1958)
September 25 - Danny Elfman and Steve Bartek's score for the Amazing Stories episode "Mummy Daddy" is recorded (1985)
September 25 - Ron Jones records his score for the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Where No One Has Gone Before" (1987)
September 26 - Edward Ward died (1971)
September 26 - Robert Emmett Dolan died (1972)
DID THEY MENTION THE MUSIC?
THE FAMILY - Evgueni Galperine, Sacha Galperine
"The tone problem is evident in the overture, a quick but graphic massacre of a man, his wife, son, and daughter, after which the killer saws off one of the dead man’s fingers. The music is sprightly rather than grim, and Besson isn’t one to stop and linger on the tragic dimension of what we’ve seen. Bodies are just fodder to him. 'The Family' belongs to a genre of carnage comedy in which the violence is plentiful but neither wholly serious nor wholly facetious -- an ugly twilight zone that only the rarest films manage to make sense of."
David Edelstein, Vulture
INSIDIOUS, CHAPTER 2 - Joseph Bishara
"Much like 'The Conjuring,' the camera work becomes more urgent and threatening as the horror builds, as if one of demons were handling the cinematography. Joseph Bishara's piano-heavy score is appropriately menacing, and ties into the plot in a subtle but meaningful way."
Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle
"Specs and Tucker bumble their way through danger, supplying physically comical laughs in an otherwise dour downer of a thriller too reliant on Joseph Bishara's nerve-jangling string score and Wan's artless visual jolts to ratchet up the scares."
Dann Gire, Daily Herald
"Having found a successful formula in the original -- which made almost $100 million worldwide -- Wan sticks with the maxim of 'if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it,' right down to the shimmering opening credits, the ominous score and the sudden scares."
Bruce DeMara, Toronto Star
JAYNE MANSFIELD’S CAR - Owen Easterling Hatfield
"Georgia-lensed production boasts a rich sense of place abetted by a twangy score and period-appropriate soundtrack."
Justin Chang, Variety
THE NEXT TEN DAYS IN L.A.
Screenings of older films, at the following L.A. movie theaters: AMPAS, American Cinematheque: Aero, American Cinematheque: Egyptian, LACMA, New Beverly, Nuart, Silent Movie Theater and UCLA.
September 20
ENAMORADA (Eduardo Hernandez Moncada), FLOR SILVESTRE (Francisco Dominguez) [LACMA]
LOS ANGELES PLAYS ITSELF [Cinematheque: Egyptian]
MIGHTY MORPHIN' POWER RANGERS (Graeme Revell) [Nuart]
PRESSURE POINT (Ernest Gold), BLESS THE BEASTS AND CHILDREN (Perry Botkin Jr., Barry DeVorzon) [UCLA]
THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE (Wayne Bell, Tobe Hooper) [Cinematheque: Aero]
UN FLIC (Michel Colombier), LE PETIT SOLDAT (Maurice Leroux) [New Beverly]
September 21
FLASHDANCE (Giorgio Moroder) [Cinematheque: Aero]
THE PHANTOM TOLLBOOTH (Dean Elliott) [Cinematheque: Egyptian]
SALON MEXICO (Antonio Diaz Conde) [LACMA]
SHIP OF FOOLS (Ernest Gold) [UCLA]
UN FLIC (Michel Colombier), LE PETIT SOLDAT (Maurice Leroux) [New Beverly]
VICTIMAS DEL PECADO (Antonio Diaz Conde) [LACMA]
WENDIGO (Michele DeBucci) [New Beverly]
September 22
THE ADVENTURES OF PRINCE ACHMED [UCLA]
E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL (John Williams) [Arclight Hollywood]
THE INSIDER (Lisa Gerrard, Pieter Bourke) [New Beverly]
INTOLERANCE (Carl Davis) [Cinematheque: Egyptian]
September 23
CLOSELY WATCHED TRAINS (Jiri Sust) [AMPAS]
THE COWARD [KAPURISH] (Satyajit Ray), THE HOLY MAN [MAHAPURUSH] (Satyajit Ray) [Cinematheque: Aero]
THE INSIDER (Lisa Gerrard, Pieter Bourke) [New Beverly]
NORTH BY NORTHWEST (Bernard Herrmann) [Arclight Sherman Oaks]
September 24
CAT BALLOU (Frank DeVol) [LACMA]
September 25
FIGHT CLUB (Dust Brothers) [Arclight Sherman Oaks]
VENGEANCE IS MINE (Shinichiro Ikebe), VIOLENCE AT NOON (Hikaru Hayashi) [New Beverly]
September 26
THE CHESS PLAYERS (Satyajit Ray), THE PHILOSOPHER'S STONE (Ravi Shankar) [Cinematheque: Aero]
THE MACK (Willie Hutch) [LACMA]
RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (John Williams) [Arclight Hollywood]
VENGEANCE IS MINE (Shinichiro Ikebe), VIOLENCE AT NOON (Hikaru Hayashi) [New Beverly]
September 27
FIVE EASY PIECES, CISCO PIKE [New Beverly]
FREAKED (Kevin Kiner) [Silent Movie Theater]
LA PERLA (Antonio Diaz Conde), ROSA BLANCA (Raul Lavista) [LACMA]
ON THE BEACH (Ernest Gold) [UCLA]
WILD AT HEART (Angelo Badalementi) [Cinematheque: Aero]
September 28
BARRY LYNDON (Leonard Rosenman) [Cinematheque: Aero]
FIVE EASY PIECES, CISCO PIKE [New Beverly]
September 29
CHINATOWN (Jerry Goldsmith) [Arclight Hollywood]
DIAS DE OTONO (Raul Lavista) [LACMA]
DISTINTO AMANACER (Raul Lavista) [LACMA]
FAMILY PLOT (John Williams), AIRPORT 1975 (John Cacavas) [New Beverly]
FOXES (Giorgio Moroder) [Silent Movie Theater]
HIGH NOON (Dimitri Tiomkin) [UCLA]
HOUSE OF WAX (David Buttolph) [Cinematheque: Aero]
THE SECRET OF SANTA VITTORIA (Ernest Gold) [UCLA]
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