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<\/p>\nWith the YoYo bug now gone from the system, I\u2019ll be uploading batches of reviews each day, along with some blogs originally slated for earlier uploads.<\/p>\n
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First off is a pair of reviews. Jerry Goldsmith\u2019s short scores for I.Q.<\/strong> (1994) and Seconds<\/strong> (1966) get their premiere releases on one disc from La-La Land Records, as well as a remastered and expanded CD of Joe Renzetti\u2019s Child\u2019s Play<\/strong> score from 1988.<\/p>\n The main jewel of the Goldsmith couplet is Seconds<\/strong>, a short but gripping doom and gloom score that\u2019s a great companion to his brilliant Freud<\/strong> score, whereas I.Q.<\/strong> shows the composer tackling comedy and drama by wiggling between several musical styles.<\/p>\n Renzetti\u2019s film work is relatively sparse, yet he left an important mark on electronic film music as well as horror films with the original Child\u2019s Play<\/strong> film, as well as Poltergeist III<\/strong> (I know\u2026 It\u2019s still a Gary Sherman idiocy, but at least the score was fun), and Frank Henenlotter\u2019s sick gem Frankenhooker<\/strong> (whose score did get a CD release, via Silva Screen).<\/p>\n Coming next will be reviews for a pair of MovieScore Media releases, and soon after the latest releases from Silva Screen, as well as an interview with composer Frederik Wiedmann regarding his score for the The Hills Run Red<\/strong> (2009), the latest shocker from Dark Castle that isn\u2019t the company\u2019s usual offering of horrifically inept storytelling. (I\u2019ll also pair the interview with a film review.)<\/p>\n I am better than a Butterball!<\/p><\/div>\n Film Music News<\/strong><\/p>\n Well, when word of a 15-CD boxed set featuring a bevy of Miklos Rozsa scores was underway at Film Score Monthly, two questions dominated online discussions: How much will it cost? And more privately, how the heck will people pay for the monster?<\/p>\n Actually, the fear that it would be some beastly $300 tome is gone, now that one can pre-order the set via Screen Archives Entertainment for $179.95 plus shipping. It\u2019s still a hefty amount in an era when digital albums are less pricey (and aren\u2019t subject to shipping issues), but then there\u2019s the rights issues that sometimes prevents online retailers from making some digital content available to other countries \u2013 a problem that\u2019s often null and void when it\u2019s a physical CD.<\/p>\n Either way, if you\u2019re contemplating the purchase of this set, no worries, as I\u2019m still sitting on the fence myself about the older Elmer Bernstein FMC box that\u2019s still above my budget, and I also missed out on some of the smaller composer and genre sets (all limited issues) back when the Canadian dollar was worth mud.<\/p>\n The FMC box, along with FSM\u2019s Superman<\/strong> box, both featured bound booklets, something that producer Lukas Kendall<\/a> said added significantly to each set\u2019s overall cost, which is why the liner notes<\/a> for the Rozsa box are available online.<\/p>\n The practice is also a clever way to publicize exactly what\u2019s in each box, so you can drool before an announced street date, and decide whether you can do without a turkey this Christmas, and just play Rozsa for the family while holding pictures of what you would\u2019ve<\/em> cooked and baked that night.<\/p>\n Most likely, your holiday dinner would sound like this:<\/p>\n \u201cCan\u2019t we just order a pizza?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cNo! Listen to The Power<\/em>! It\u2019s in stereo, AND longer!\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cBut the pizzeria is next-door\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cEither sit still and devour the nuances of this Golden Age maestro, or leave the premises and forego eating rights for next year\u2019s Easter dinner.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cBut what if there\u2019s another boxed set in April?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThen I will provide bread and water. Let\u2019s hope if anything IS planned, it\u2019s a Bernstein liturgy.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWho\u2019s Bernstein?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cGET OUT!\u201d<\/p>\n Ahem.<\/p>\n Also announced last week is a 2-CD set of Alan Silvestri\u2019s Back to the Future<\/strong>, with Intrada<\/a> limiting the pressing to around 3000 copies; and a 2-CD set for Lee Holdridge\u2019s In Search of Peace<\/strong> soundtrack (limited to 1000 copies, and apparently sold out at the label\u2019s site, though check out other online retailers). The label\u2019s prior limited CD, Jerry Fielding\u2019s Gray Lady Down<\/strong>, is still available.<\/p>\n New from FSM is Lalo Schifrin\u2019s Bullitt<\/a><\/strong>, which makes this the score\u2019s third incarnation on disc. The classic Warner Bros. LP and CD were studio re-recordings of the film\u2019s main themes, and some cues were cross-mixed with roaring car engine sound effects, as well as a gunshot and screaming crowds at the end.<\/p>\n Schifrin himself re-recorded the score for his Aleph label, and FSM\u2019s CD marks the first time the original film score recording has been released. FSM\u2019s also adding the shorter Warner Bros. album to their CD, which should make for some interesting comparisons, particularly in the jazz source cues and their respective improv solos.<\/p>\n England\u2019s Harkit Records<\/a> has reissued Jerry Goldsmith\u2019s The Trouble With Angels<\/strong> (1966), a brief 28 min. score originally released by Mainstream Records on LP, and then on CD in 1991, where it was coupled with the composer\u2019s Stagecoach<\/strong> score.<\/p>\n Silva Screen<\/a>\u2019s new roster includes music from two Doctor Who films from 1965 and 1966, Dr. Who and the Daleks<\/strong>, and Dalek\u2019s Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D.<\/strong>, respectively, as well as Red Cliff<\/strong> (which I\u2019ll review next week, alongside the original 2-part Chinese version, since the shorter American cut will likely be the only version available in Region 1 land for a while).<\/p>\n Peter Thomas\u2019 music from the late sixties German boobery films Die Volkommmene Ehe<\/strong> and Das Leben Zu Zweit<\/strong> makes to CD via Chris Soundtrack Corner<\/a> \/ All Score Media<\/a>.<\/p>\n La-La Land Records<\/a>\u2019 next wave of titles includes Bill Conti\u2019s That Championship Season<\/strong> (which I\u2019ll also review next week), as well as Les Baxter\u2019s Panic in Year Zero<\/strong> (previously available as a bootleg album, and as an isolated score track on the old Image laserdisc<\/a>).<\/p>\n Kritzerland Records<\/a>\u2019 latest releases include Elmer Bernstein\u2019s Love with the Proper Stranger<\/strong> and A Girl Named Tamiko<\/strong> (both sourced from the original 3-track stereo album masters), and Ernest Gold\u2019s previously unreleased Pressure Point<\/strong> (taken from the composer\u2019s mono tapes). The label\u2019s prior goody was the pairing of Richard Rodney Bennett\u2019s Billion Dollar Brain<\/strong> and Roy Budd\u2019s The Final Option<\/strong> (both previously released by FSM in their MGM Soundtrack Treasury box).<\/p>\n Spain\u2019s Singular Soundtrack, incidentally, just released Bennett\u2019s Lady Caroline Lamb<\/strong> on CD.<\/p>\n Coming soon from Italy\u2019s DigitMovies<\/a> are Guido and Maurizio De Angelis\u2019 Orzowei Il figlio della savana<\/strong> and Il Marsigliese<\/strong>, Gianni Ferrio\u2019s Quei disperati che puzzano di sudore e di morte<\/strong>, Stelvio Cipriani\u2019s Squadra volante<\/strong> and La polizia ringrazia<\/strong>, and Carlo Rustichelli\u2019s Il Dominatore del Deserto<\/strong>, Maciste alla corte dello Zar<\/strong>, and I predoni della steppa<\/strong>.<\/p>\n![\"I'm](\"http:\/\/i917.photobucket.com\/albums\/ad14\/wegeewegee\/RozsaBox.png\")