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Intrada plans to release two new CDs next week. 

Disney had a stable of composers like Buddy Baker, Paul Smith and Oliver Wallace who are most commonly associated with the scores for the studio's Golden Age films, but the studio did at times hire outside the lot. For THOSE CALLOWAYS, the 1965 family starring Brian Keith, Vera Miles, Brandon de Wilde and Walter Brennan, the studio hired one of the all-time masters, Max Steiner, who wrote one of his final scores for the film. The Intrada CD features Steiner's complete 74 minute score, never before released, in stereo.

The label has also released a brand new score (couldn't be newer -- the film opens today), for the lavish prequel OZ, THE GREAT AND POWERFUL, starring James Franco as the Wizard, with Mila Kunis, Michelle Williams and Rachel Weisz as the ladies of Oz. The film's director is Sam Raimi, and the score was composed by his frequent collaborator, four-time Oscar nominee Danny Elfman, who previously scored Darkman, A Simple Plan and the first two Spider-Man films for Raimi (as well as providing the "March of the Dead" for Army of Darkness and making a cameo appearance in The Gift). Oz is the first Elfman feature score released by Intrada, a co-production with the Disney label, and features 66 minutes of his music.

Varese Sarabande has announced two new CDs in their limited edition series of contemporary scores -- Diego Navarro's score for the quasi-remake MIMESIS: NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, and the music for the thriller RIDDLE, composed by Scott Glasgow (Bone Dry, Toxic).

Certain films inspire the cliche "they don't make 'em like that anymore," and MY GEISHA definitely fits that familiar phrase. Master cinematographer Jack Cardiff directed the 1962 romantic comedy, with Yves Montand as a film director who decides to make a movie version of Madame Butterfly. His movie star wife, Shirley Maclaine, is eager to play the part, but Montand wants to find an actress who's actually Japanese, so Maclaine disguises herself as a Japanese geisha in her attempt to win the part. The lush and romantic score, which uses original themes as well as interpolated music from Puccini's classic opera, was composed by the great Franz Waxman, and the Kritzerland CD, limited to 1000 units, features Waxman's complete score, including cues left off of the original soundtrack LP.