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This weekend, I listened to (for the first time) the soundtrack release of Elliot Goldenthal's SPHERE.
I hereby demand a comprehensive release of this score. I will not accept a "no" in this matter. Get it done.
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This weekend, I listened to (for the first time) the soundtrack release of Elliot Goldenthal's SPHERE.
I hereby demand a comprehensive release of this score. I will not accept a "no" in this matter. Get it done.
One of my biggest Holy Grails! Sadly chances are very small it'll ever see a complete release.
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One of my biggest Holy Grails! Sadly chances are very small it'll ever see a complete release.
I insist.
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One of my biggest Holy Grails! Sadly chances are very small it'll ever see a complete release.
I insist.
Tell it to the people at Warner Bros
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Goldenthal is blacklisted from Warner.
That means no future:
Interview with the Vampire
Sphere
Batman & Robin
Michael Collins
Heat
Cobb
Demolition Man
A side effect of Goldenthal and the whole 300 fiasco.
Yes, but some of these scores have at least adequate soundtrack releases. I mean, Interview with the Vampire or Heat or Michael Collins I think have well produced soundtrack albums that stand alone well.
SPHERE is obviously lacking a lot of music from sessions that would have been prohibitively expensive to include. What I heard on the album was very good, but obviously, it would be much rounder if there were an expanded release. I want it! I want it now! (Stomps with foot.)
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Goldenthal is blacklisted from Warner.
That means no future:
Interview with the Vampire
Sphere
Batman & Robin
Michael Collins
Heat
Cobb
Demolition Man
A side effect of Goldenthal and the whole 300 fiasco.
pity that a composer who asserts their intellectual rights still suffers in the end....
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If I may be so bold...
...what exactly happened with 300?
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Goldenthal is blacklisted from Warner.
That means no future:
Interview with the Vampire
Sphere
Batman & Robin
Michael Collins
Heat
Cobb
Demolition Man
A side effect of Goldenthal and the whole 300 fiasco.
pity that a composer who asserts their intellectual rights still suffers in the end....
Agreed. But couldn't other composers oppose the same type of grievance with respect to their music? I'm thinking of Goldenthal's rather shocking use of The Amityville Horror in Pet Sematary.
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I agree, the existing album is pretty weak. My favorite moment in this brilliant film is, when the subtle piano stuff accompanies the receding water after the manifestations from the Dustin Hoffman character rather late in the film.
So yeah, release of the entire score is mandatory.
For the 35 Minutes that Varese was able to afford, it's a pretty good album. Another thing is that the score was recorded in two separate cities, New York and San Francisco which are both union orchestras which eventhrough they aren't LA are still expensive regardless. Goldenthal had to move to SF because he was also doing his "Othello" ballet (which is excellent) around the same time he was recording this score which Varese also released soon after the CD to Sphere came out in Feb. 1998.
The album if I remember right is the New York recordings or at least part of it and there's another 55 Minutes missing from it. I'd like to see this expanded too just to get the complete Main Titles and the lengthy finale.
This and an expanded Demolition Man should definitely happen!!!
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Goldenthal is blacklisted from Warner.
That means no future:
Interview with the Vampire
Sphere
Batman & Robin
Michael Collins
Heat
Cobb
Demolition Man
A side effect of Goldenthal and the whole 300 fiasco.
Also A Time to Kill, although I don't think that one is missing much music. But I really hope this matter will be resolved one day, cause I'd love a more complete version of almost all of the above titles.
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I insist "they" (you know who you are) get SPHERE done correctly... the current album is like listening to a great symphony that was never finished. And we are NOT talking Schubert here, where I let this slip through.
SPHERE has more potential as music, I sense it (even though I have seen the movie only once back when it came out).
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