I'll have to check this out. McFarland was a great arranger who died very young and Kuhn an under-rated jazz pianist. Thanks for the tip. Have you heard Gil Melle's Tome VI mid-sixties album on Verve? A trad jazz quartet with Melle on soprano sax alternating with and playing with and against a group of early electronic instruments.
I'll have to check this out. McFarland was a great arranger who died very young and Kuhn an under-rated jazz pianist. Thanks for the tip. Have you heard Gil Melle's Tome VI mid-sixties album on Verve? A trad jazz quartet with Melle on soprano sax alternating with and playing with and against a group of early electronic instruments.
Oh yes! Imagine how sad I was when I was informed that there were no Tomes I through V.
Just got around to listening to this. Excellent. It's such a haunting theme, deceptively simple, but malleable. And it made me want to listen to the FSM CD again, a real gem of a score. I even think that the film is underrated. I especially love the opening 15 minutes or so, with the genteel house party and the guy playing the theme on harp, intercut with the stranger's journey by train, Niven's reactions on hearing the news (just eye movements and whisperings), right up to the bit where the orchestra soars with a bold statement of the theme as they arrive at the chateau (or something - it's been years since I saw it). Perfect match of music and imagery.
Did somebody mention Gil Mellé? He's my favourite composer ever, and Tome VI is amazing.
