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| The Great Santini (1979) |
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| Music by Elmer Bernstein |
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| Line: Silver Age |
| CD Release:
August 2011
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| Catalog #: Vol. 14, No. 13 |
| # of Discs: 1 |
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The Great Santini (1979) was novelist Pat Conroy’s semi-autographical tribute to his father, a Marine fighter pilot who struggled with being a loving father and husband while keeping up his aggressive machismo image. The film featured Oscar-nominated performances by Robert Duvall as Col. “Bull” Meechum and Michael O’Keefe as his eldest son, Ben. Blythe Danner played Meechum’s wife, Lillian.
In the late ’70s and early ’80s, Elmer Bernstein seemed temporarily type-cast as a composer of low-brow comedies such as Animal House, Meatballs and Airplane!, but his score for The Great Santini amply demonstrated his undiminished gift for poignant and emotional drama. The lyrical melodies he composed for Santini perfectly capture the film’s characters and their complex interrelationships. In addition to these evocative themes, suitably percussive, dissonant and dramatic passages mirror the darker elements of the story.
There are several source music cues in the film—including an arrangement of Henry Mancini’s “Moon River” (from Breakfast at Tiffany’s) by Bernstein’s orchestrator, David Spear—that reflect the story’s early 1960s time-frame.
With the exception of two cues taken from the film’s monaural music stem, this premiere presentation of Bernstein’s complete score for The Great Santini has been mixed from the original Warner Bros. 1/2" three-track stereo masters. In addition, FSM has included a delightful bonus (recorded during the Santini sessions but not related to the film): a march Bernstein composed for the inauguration of Charles Huttenback as the third chancellor of the University of California, Santa Barbara.
The 16-page booklet designed by Joe Sikoryak contains films stills, poster art, and notes on the film and music by Scott Bettencourt and Frank K. DeWald. Additional background information is also available—for free—at FSM’s growing repository of online notes. The Great Santini is a prime example of the art of film scoring by one of its greatest practitioners and makes a significant addition to the FSM catalog of Bernstein titles. |
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| Elmer Bernstein Scores on FSM |
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| About the Composer |
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Elmer Bernstein (1922–2004) had a Hollywood career that lasted over a half a century; invented and reinvented himself as a composer across several genres (jazz, epics, westerns, comedies and adult dramas); and scored more than a few Hollywood classics—The Ten Commandments, The Magnificent Seven, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Great Escape and Airplane! to name but five. FSM has released a dozen of his scores and counting, but the most popular may be Heavy Metal (1981)—don't be fooled by the title, it's Elmer's "Star Wars." In addition to his prolific work as a composer, Bernstein was a tireless champion of film music as an art form, serving on the boards of several professional organizations and in the 1970s recording his own LP series of classic Hollywood scores, Elmer Bernstein's Film Music Collection, released by FSM as a 12-CD box set. IMDB |
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| Track List |
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Click on track TIME for MP3 sound clip. The Great Santini Music Composed and Conducted by Elmer Bernstein - The Santini Mystique (Main Title—original version) 2:14
- Restaurant Source 3:24
- Fascination (Fermo Dante Marchetti & Maurice de Féraudy) 1:23
- Ben and Bull 1:36
- New Home 1:10
- Bull in the Rain 1:47
- Mother and Son 1:13
- The Boys/Idyll 2:57
- Ben's Birthday Gift 2:16
- Birthday Letter 1:23
- Officers' Club 2:41
- Getting Drunk 3:16
- Bees and... 1:34
- Locker Room 2:00
- Trouble/Ben Finds Toomer/Aftermath 5:52
- Looking for Bull 1:48
- Arabelle 1:08
- Radio Source 1:07
- Moon River (Henry Mancini & Johnny Mercer) 2:17
- Goodnight, Sweetheart (Ray Noble, Jimmy Campbell & Reg Connelly) 1:20
- Lillian 1:10
- Confession 2:25
- Intro to End Credits/End Credit Overture 3:22
Total Time: 50:21 Bonus Tracks - The Santini Mystique (Main Title—film version) 2:27
- Inauguration (UCSB) 4:07
Total Time: 6:36 Total Disc Time: 57:04 |
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| Instruments/Musicians |
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Leader (Conductor):
Elmer Bernstein, David R. Spear
Violin:
Murray Adler, Jeanne E. Aiken, Doris Y. Carr, Glenn Dicterow, Harold Dicterow, Bonnie J. Douglas (Shure), George Kast, Ezra Kliger, Jacob Krachmalnick, Brian Leonard, Marvin Limonick, Stanley Plummer, Jay Allen Rosen, Julie Ann Rosenfeld, Nathan Ross, Paul C. Shure, Polly Sweeney, Dorothy M. Wade (Sushel), Miwako Watanabe, Margaret Wooten, Shari Zippert (Freebairn-Smith)
Viola:
Samuel Boghossian, Pamela Goldsmith, Linda S. Lipsett, Virginia Majewski, David Schwartz, Milton Thomas, Barbara Thomason
Cello:
Douglas L. Davis, Selene Depuy-Hurford, Marie Fera, Todd L. Hemmenway, Armand Kaproff, Jacqueline Lustgarten, Frederick R. Seykora, Nancy Stein
Bass:
Charles C. Berghofer, Steven Edelman, Milton Kestenbaum, Abraham Luboff, Meyer (Mike) Rubin
Flute:
Louise M. DiTullio (Dissman), Sylvia Ruderman, David J. Shostac
Oboe:
William Criss, Earle D. Dumler, Arnold Koblentz
Clarinet:
Peter Christlieb, Dominick Fera, Gary Foster, James M. Kanter, Ronald Langinger (aka Ronny Lang), John Neufeld, Hugo Raimondi
Bassoon:
Fowler A. Friedlander, Norman H. Herzberg, Jack Marsh, Kenneth Munday
French Horn:
James Atkinson, Vincent N. DeRosa, David A. Duke, Arthur Maebe, Jr., Richard E. Perissi, Gale H. Robinson, Victor Vener
Trumpet:
Nelson Hatt, Malcolm Boyd McNab, Anthony "Tony" Terran, Graham Young
Trombone:
George M. Roberts, Thomas Shepard, Lloyd E. Ulyate, Chauncey Welsch
Keyboards:
John D. Berkman, Alan Broadbent, Daniel Gordon, Chet Swiatkowski
Guitar:
Thomas "Tommy" Tedesco
Harp:
Dorothy S. Remsen
Percussion:
Larry Bunker, William Kraft, Peter Limonick, Thomas D. Raney, Steve Schaeffer, Kenneth E. Watson
Orchestrator:
Peter Bernstein, David R. Spear
Contractor:
Nathan Kaproff
Copyist:
Dante DiThomas, Kevin L. Hiatt, David A. Leech, Bernie K. Lewis, Dwight Mikkelsen, Aime Vereecke, Ricardo Vettraino
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