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I enjoy Rosenman's Lord of the Rings and his East of Eden/Rebel Without a Cause personally. I don't own Robocop 2 but I remember I liked the theme he came up. Very martial and assertive.
Any notable scores anyone would recommend? I like his use of atypical harmonies in his music. Makes for interesting listening.
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Hello David. For me, he's a 'hit and miss' composer a lot of the times. However, the film of 'CROSS CREEK' from the 1980's was superior, and I enjoyed Rosenman's score a great deal. I think he got an Oscar nomination for it if I recall, but no cd release!
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Feb 4, 2008 - 11:46 AM
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ahem
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I don't own Robocop 2 but I remember I liked the theme he came up. Very martial and assertive.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gH-K5yxPT7Y
I LOVE it, chorus included. Infact, chorus aside, it is highly evocative of what Goldsmith and Poledouris were doing on all the big action movies at that time (ROBOCOP, TOTAL RECALL, RAMBO). Rosenman was suprisingly adept (or unsuprisngly given the genre's modernist roots) at that 80s action scoring sound, i.e. orchestra, DX7 and an army of clanging fire extinguishers.
I am getting more into earlier Rosenman, the 50s modernist stuff. I want to be very up on that. Much more my thing than the later stuff like BARRY LYNDON, but that's just taste on my part. Something like REBEL blows me away every time, and it's embarrasing how awful todays scores for similar theme movies sound by comparison.
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I agree Ahem although we must recognize two things:
1. Times have changed a lot since the '50s
2. The compositional chops that some of the Hollywood heavyweights sport is miniscule compared to Rosenman, North, Goldsmith and their ilk partly because the newer guys were not weened on Schoenberg, Webern, Berg, Varese, Xenakis, Ligeti, etc.
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Leonard Rosenman is the reason I became interested in film music. His compositions are never uninteresting, and he has a way of using harmonic ideas and certain short intervalic notions to create a psychological counterpoint to the action.
I love all of his scores, but of the ones that are available, you should definitely try and seek out his final score "Jurij," which has a fantastic adaptation of Vitale's "Chaconne" at the end - the moment when the violin solo moves away from the Vitale and into Rosenman is really fantastic. Also his "Charlton Heston Presents 'The Bible'" score is a nice hybrid of his twelve-tone writing, his more melodic writing, and his classical adaptations a la "Barry Lyndon." There's a great LP of his score "9/30/55" where he adapts his own "East of Eden" and "Rebel Without A Cause" themes. The album has probably some of his more unconventional cues - including a bit of chase music very much steeped in southern country roots, complete with solo fiddle and electric bass. It's really wild to hear, and a reminder of Rosenman's versatility.
Essentially, anything of his you can find is worth picking up and listening to at least once. It is a shame that we won't get any new scores from this master. Maybe someone will see fit to start recording his concert works.
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Lenny Rosenman is just great. It's no coincidence that the second FSM CD was Fantastic Voyage---a singlar accomplishment, and Beneath the Planet of the Apes is not far behind.
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(gone for good)
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Lottsa technique, little talent.
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If "The Car" was released I would buy it.
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Natrebo:
Symphony No. 1, also known as the "Dinosaur Symphony," was completed, and is published by PeerMusic. It has yet to be performed - partially because of the difficulty of the music, but mainly due to the sheer orchestral forces required. It is written for an enormous, augmented orchestra, with a lot of percussion.
The fourth movement was scheduled to be performed a few years ago in Rome as part of a tribute concert, but the concert was cancelled at the last minute.
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