{"id":7829,"date":"2010-03-31T23:49:12","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T03:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mondomark.com\/?p=708"},"modified":"2010-03-31T23:49:12","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T03:49:12","slug":"the-lighter-side-of-christopher-young-and-a-few-soundtrack-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=7829","title":{"rendered":"The Lighter Side of Christopher Young, and a few Soundtrack Links"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 156px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/i917.photobucket.com\/albums\/ad14\/wegeewegee\/ChristopherYoung_s.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"146\" height=\"134\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"> Christopher Young<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Just uploaded are a pair of reviews for two Christopher  Young soundtracks: <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqek.com\/cd_lp_reviews\/j2l\/CD_0191_LoveHappens2009.htm\">Love  Happens <\/a><\/strong>(La-La Land Records)  has the veteran composer and avid practitioner of <em>musique concrete<\/em>, <em>avant garde <\/em>and modern classical techniques writing a romantic drama score (and it  works!), whereas <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqek.com\/cd_lp_reviews\/c\/CD_0194_Creation2009.htm\">Creation <\/a><\/strong>(U.K.: Silva Screen, U.S.: Lakeshore  Records) is a character study that inspired Young to write one of his best  scores in years \u2013 light, dreamy, and proof-positive Young is the King of  Melancholia.<\/p>\n<p>Also of note to IMAX and soundtrack fans is a fairly new  site (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imaxmusic.net\/\" target=\"window\">www.imaxmusic.net<\/a>) with a mandate  to catalogue and identify IMAX scores and their commercial availability.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/i917.photobucket.com\/albums\/ad14\/wegeewegee\/Vox_logo_cleanedup_s.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"159\" height=\"134\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Lastly, fans of Fritz Lang\u2019s Metropolis may be aware of the  film\u2019s latest round of restoration work after rare footage from a longer print  surfaced in Argentina.  The attempt to recreate Lang\u2019s original theatrical cut premiered in Germany,  and a blurb about the event was reported at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvdtalk.com\/dvdsavant\/archives\/2010_02.html\" target=\"window\">DVD Savant<\/a> (see entry for Jan. 14\/10).<\/p>\n<p>More intriguing for fans of the autocratic Lang as well as  the film\u2019s original composer, Gottfried Huppertz, are two recordings from 1927 that the <a href=\"http:\/\/osiris22.pi-consult.de\/view.php3?show=5500009270724\" target=\"window\">Deutsche  Kinemathek <\/a> made available as playable and downloadable MP3 recordings.  Seite einz features Lang discussing the film\u2019s music in German, and Seite zwei  features a suite of thematic material culled from Huppertz\u2019 score.<\/p>\n<p>While most will find the archival audio fascinating, I\u2019m  rather drawn to the striking label art that features a Cubist-styled crooner  (or a minimalist design of an unfortunate musician captured in a death  pose as a nuclear bomb blew out his eyes, electrified the hair, and extended  the lips as the singer saw the dirty cloud, and uttered the sentence \u2018<em>Ach, was eine schweinerei!<\/em>\u2019).<\/p>\n<p>Or something like that.<\/p>\n<p>This blog marks the end of March, as well as the last chance  Mother Nature had to smite Toronto  with one last snowstorm. However, a final chill on T.O. actually came from the  provincial budget which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogto.com\/mb_toronto\/2010\/03\/morning_brew_transit_city_funding_yanked_public_sector_salary_freezes_1300_on_police_force_sunshine_list_hate_crimes_spike_in_mississauga_and_brampton_jordan_manners_trial_jury_cant_reach_verdict\/\" target=\"_blank\">freezes<\/a> the much-needed public transportation plan for  an undetermined period, so I guess we did get hit with one big storm after all.<\/p>\n<p>Brrr\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; MRH<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uploaded soundtrack reviews of Christopher Yong&#8217;s Love Happens and Creation (both 2009), plus music from Fritz Lang&#8217;s Metropolis, and a new online database of IMAX film scores&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nuyW-22h","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7829"}],"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=7829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}