{"id":1171,"date":"2010-11-02T14:56:07","date_gmt":"2010-11-02T18:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mondomark.com\/wordpress\/?p=1205"},"modified":"2010-11-02T16:39:55","modified_gmt":"2010-11-02T20:39:55","slug":"christopher-young-talks-psycho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=1171","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Young talks Psycho"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mondomark.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/CompactDisc_image_s.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-741\" title=\"CompactDisc_image_s\" src=\"http:\/\/mondomark.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/CompactDisc_image_s.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" \/><\/a>No, no, no. Esteemed composer Christopher Young hasn\u2019t <em>experienced<\/em> a psychotic snap. He talks <em>about<\/em> <strong>Psycho<\/strong>. No idea where you got such a silly idea.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/rue-morgue.com\/blog\/archives\/2010\/11\/02\/mondo-marks-bernard-herrmann-psycho-spotlight-coda-c\/\" >final  slice<\/a> of Rue Morgue\u2019s 3-part Q&amp;A with composers well-versed in the  nuances of horror film scoring is up &amp; running, and it\u2019s the transcript of  my discussion with Young based around 3 questions.<\/p>\n<p>What I love about Young is that he\u2019s a film music fan, an  educator, a passionate artist, and gracious about his own work. If I had to be  stuck on an island and could only choose music by 5 composers, my picks would 99.9%  \u00a0be Young, Jerry Goldsmith, Bernard  Herrmann, Oliver Nelson, and Hugo Friedhofer.<\/p>\n<p>Which Young scores I\u2019d take is a different matter, but they  would have to include his horror work, as well as <strong>Jennifer 8<\/strong>, <strong>Copycat<\/strong>, and <strong>Hider in the House<\/strong>, because they\u2019re  marinated in pure melancholy. (<strong>Hider<\/strong> is a gem, and I don\u2019t\u2019 want to see the film because my own mind has conjured a  drama more vivid than the cinematic tale of Gary Busey playing a sleazy <strong>Bad Ronald<\/strong>.)<\/p>\n<p>Also of note is a post-Halloween treat (thanks, Pete!)  originally spotted by io8.com, where you too can listen to a <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5678486\/a-free-mixtape-of-john-carpenters-greatest-soundtracks-by-alan-howarth\" >special  mix<\/a> of themes from John Carpenter films. The hour-long program was created  by former Carpenter \u2018associate\u2019 and co-composer Alan Howarth for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.residentadvisor.net\/\" >Resident Advisor<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll have a list of sampled films in the next blog. The  downloadable file is worth checking out for music written when Carpenter\u2019s film  output was far more creative and fun than his weak TV (<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqek.com\/dvd_reviews\/m\/3365_MOH_ProLife.htm\">Pro  Life<\/a><\/strong>) and rare film work of late.<\/p>\n<p>Lastly, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pragueorchestras.com\/conan.htm\" >Tadlow  Music<\/a>, who brought us crisp digital re-recordings of the full scores to  Mikos Rozsa\u2019s <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqek.com\/cd_lp_reviews\/e\/CD_0118_ElCidTadlow.htm\">El Cid<\/a><\/strong> (later reissued via Silva Screen), and more recently Maurice Jarre\u2019s <strong>Lawrence of Arabia<\/strong>, have announced  their 2-CD set for Basil Poledouris\u2019 <strong>Conan  the Barbarian<\/strong>. The label has posted a YouTube video of a snippet from the  recording session to tease us before the set is released, uhm, <em>today<\/em>!<\/p>\n<p class=\"style3\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"style3\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"style3\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mark R. Hasan<\/strong>,  Editor<br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqek.com\/Main_Index_Page.htm\">KQEK.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Links to a new Q&#038;A with composer Christopher Young, a special John Carpenter theme mix by Alan Howarth, and Tadlow&#8217;s new Conan the Barbarian 2-CD set&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nuyW-iT","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1181,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171\/revisions\/1181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}