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Truly a once-in-lifetime moment. I'm absolutely thrilled that the only film score written by this legendary man, and personal hero of mine, is finally getting the Rolls Royce treatment from Intrada. This is one I cannot wait to savor its every note of.
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Is there any information about why Lenny B. never wrote another film score?
Did he just have too many other things to do?
Or maybe he couldn't have cared less, being more of a concert artist, composer and conductor.
I remember seeing him on TV in the 50's, with his "Young People's Concerts," which he narrated most eloquently.
At this time, he was also composing for the theatre, most notably "Candide" (1956), and "West Side Story" (1957), as I recall, both of which are now regarded as masterpieces.
So it's not like he didn't have anything else to do.
Input?
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Dec 1, 2014 - 10:50 PM
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SchiffyM
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In the summer of 1990, I was visiting Boston with a musician friend of mine, and he said we should drive to Tanglewood (where he'd performed the year before) to see what was happening. When we got there, Leonard Bernstein was conducting a closed rehearsal of what I seem to recall was a Copland symphony. My friend knew one of "Lenny's boys," who was standing by the door, and he let us in.
I watched Bernstein conduct from just a few feet away. He would stop the orchestra on occasion to bark out instructions, sounding almost exactly like my middle school music teacher. Eventually, he finished the rehearsal and walked right by us. My friend nodded to him (he'd played for him the previous summer), and I tried to think of something to say but chickened out. A few months later, Bernstein died, never having had the benefit of whatever witty comment I failed to come up with.
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This is a landmark score by one of the best composers and conductors of the 20th century to a fantastic film and Intrada probably did the best they could with the masters. But that unfortunately doesn`t change the fact that the tapes show their age. No matter how good the music is, the sound quality is terrible.
ON THE WATERFRONT along with NIGHT OF THE HUNTER are my personal favorites for a rerecording. Although the musicians in Prague or Moscow probably would have a hard time keeping up with the tempo of the Bernstein score.
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Grab the smelling salts quick! I've had only four Holy Grails. Last year, Kritzerland gave me Maurice Jarre's The Only Game In Town and now Intrada has provided me with On The Waterfront! My cup truly runneth over.
Now just waiting for my other two (Tiomkin's The High And The Mighty, Barry's Tamarind Seed) and they better hurry up! I'm not getting any younger.
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