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It hasn't been announced in an email or on the Facebook page yet, but Omni Music Publishing's edition of "North By Northwest" by Bernard Herrmann is now available for purchase worldwide for 75 US Dollars.
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I’m waiting for Adventures if Robin Hood. That’s worth the cost
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Robin Hood is on temporary hiatus. The approval for two other books came in so I am jumping on those first. Then I am squeezing in another one. Robin Hood will be after these three.
Thanks to everyone for purchasing.
Care to share which scores perhaps? Anything else by Goldsmith or Korngold?
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Care to share which scores perhaps? Anything else by Goldsmith or Korngold?
Yes to Goldsmith. Robin Hood is just a massive score, so it will have to wait while I work on a John Powell score. The timing just works better this way. After that, an Alan Menken score, and another Horner, followed by either Robin Hood or the Goldsmith one. They are all great scores, and I'd love to release them all immediately, but they take time to assemble.
If you say you are working on HTTYD I’m gonna lose it. Would love to get that full score!!
For Goldsmith well, the sky is the limit but for selfish reasons
ST:TMP (obviously)
Papillon (my personal fave of his)
POTA
First Blood (the original)
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I should qualify and earlier comment I made about the book expenses. They are actually priced very fairly. Full conductor's scores of classical and concert music cost as much, and even Hal Leonard Signature Series Williams ones which are just suites are as expensive if not more, and you are only getting PART of the score. Omni presents the entire score! And the packaging is lovely.
I'm in a position where I live outside the US so shipping and conversion rates take a modest $80 offering and effectively double it. $160 then becomes a purchase that I have to really think about as opposed to the $80. This isn't Omni's fault. This is just circumstantial/situational.
So, for me, I try to be selective about what I purchase. There's no way in hell I could do take downs on Davis' Matrix. Way too complex and I wanted to see what he did, so it was a worthwhile investment for me. The same will apply to Korngold's Robin Hood. It's incredibly dense, complex writing. And highly chromatic. I've been hemming and hawing over Goldsmith's Total Recall because that too is a beast of a score... still thinking. But I will wait to see what other Goldsmith Tim comes out with. I'd love The Final Conflict too... amazing score.
Legend, well, that's not gonna happen but one can dream.....that's another score that is as complex as a Ravel or Stravinsky ballet!
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I ended up buying Total Recall this past week. Absolutely stunning packaging and presentation of Goldsmith's self admitted last virtuosic score.
Gotta give props to Omni for these publications. They are tremendous resources to composers who want to get better insight into the mechanics of orchestration.
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I bought Total Recall immediately and I should get Basic Instinct. Star Trek The Motion Picture for Goldsmith would be a no-brainer but there are so many showcase scores of his that would be fascinating to look at...
Yeah I'm almost embarrassed at how long it took to buy Total Recall.
In a world where I had unlimited funds these are the Goldsmith Omni books I'd buy
1. Papillon
2. St:TMP
3. Alien
4. POTA
5. First Blood
6. Final Conflict
7. Islands in the Stream
We are getting a Goldsmith release and I pray it's one of these..
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“Self admitted last virtuosic”? I don’t remember Goldsmith “admitting” anything like that exactly. The Shadow’s pretty damn virtuosic, with similar complex soundscapes at times. The Mummy has some incredibly virtuosic sequences (I bet an OMNI edition of that beloved score would do well)...and for that matter so does Looney Tunes: Back in Action.
Yavar
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“Self admitted last virtuosic”? I don’t remember Goldsmith “admitting” anything like that exactly. The Shadow’s pretty damn virtuosic, with similar complex soundscapes at times. The Mummy has some incredibly virtuosic sequences (I bet an OMNI edition of that beloved score would do well)...and for that matter so does Looney Tunes: Back in Action.
Yavar
I was paraphrasing but Goldsmith said he'd written as many notes in Total Recall as a Bruckner symphony.
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