News
2008
News Archive
The Cassandra Crossing Complete
Score 2 CD Set
The
Prometheus label has announced a 2 CD set of Jerry Goldsmith's complete score to
The Cassandra Crossing. Sadly the complete score on disc 1 is in mono.
With the original stereo album content on disc 2. Nonetheless this is a very
welcome release for those who've missed out on the original album CD from RCA and
perhaps for those who have found their old CD getting more bronzed by the
day. The other great news is of course the extra music. The early
Searching The Train
sequence being a major Goldsmith highlight.
The set is expected to be available from mid December. Pre-order now from
BuySoundtrax.
American
Youth Symphony Salutes Jerry Goldsmith!
The
Film Music Society has revealed that the
American Youth Symphony
(AYS) are about to embark on a three year concert programme with symposiums
celebrating the work of Jerry Goldsmith. The first concert on Sunday December
7th 2008 will focus on Goldsmith's early years in television and movies. Next
year will features music from the 70s and early 80s. With the final concert in
2010 covering the remainder of the 80s and beyond.
All concerts will be conducted by composer David Newman who has gone back to
Goldsmith's original sketches and prepared all new suites for classic Goldsmith
scores to A Patch Of Blue, The Sand Pebbles and Patton. In
addition suites from The Planet Of The Apes and excerpts from The Blue
Max will also feature.
The first afternoon symposium will be chaired by Jon Burlingame and feature
composer Robert Drasnin, Marc Scott Zicree, author of The Twilight Zone
Companion, the definitive history of the show; Robert Townson, producer for the
Varese Sarabande record label and Michael Lloyd, a film composer and Goldsmith
expert.
There will also be a
25-minute live-to-film performance of Goldsmith's score for The Invaders
by members of the AYS which will be part of the two-hour symposium, beginning at 2pm,
also in Royce Hall. Clips from Goldsmith's other work for the Rod Serling series
will also be featured.
This massive event is free and will be held at Royce Hall on the campus
of the University of California in Los Angeles.
Read more at the
Film Society Web Site!
Legend Returns
Jerry
Goldsmith's officially endorsed film music society has returned with a new issue
of their magazine called Legend. The new issue is available to
subscribers only. Features include an
obituary on Leonard Rosenman, a six-page
study of Mutiny on the Bounty (1962), a five-page study of The Night
of the Generals, the history of cover versions (part 4 - the 1980s), an
examination of copyright law in the UK as it applies to recordings, seven
pages of CD Reviews, book review - Noises in the Head by Laurie Johnson
and the fascinating case of Columbo and the film composer.
If you wish to subscribe then click here to
email.
Not Without My Daughter Complete Score
CD
La-La Land Records has announced a complete score release of Not
Without My Daughter, the movie based on Betty Mahmoody's
best selling book. The score was previously released by Intrada
back in 1991 as a 35 minute CD. La-La Land has increased the
running time with the remaining missing score cues, a couple of
non Goldsmith source cues and most interestingly a 20 minute
orchestral only suite of highlights from the score. The CD is
limited to 3000 copies. Note the trumpet pickup from the finale
cue The Flag does not feature.
Order From
La-La Land today.
The Boys From Brazil 2 CD Set
From Intrada
Intrada
has announced a spectacular 2 CD set of Jerry Goldsmith's Oscar
nominated classic The Boys From Brazil! The set takes in
the complete film soundtrack, Jerry Goldsmith's 1978 album
presentation of highlights from the score, as well as source
music conducted by the composer, a source cue composed by Arthur
Morton and a couple of alternate score cues!
All music is in stereo and is said to be in magnificent
condition with the film's soundtrack mixed from the multi track
masters while the album has been fully re-mixed and re-mastered.
Thank you Intrada!
Samples from Intrada's Site
Main Title
Find
It; Don’t Believe Me
Broken Bottles
Without Hope/Frau Doring
Over
The Top; Frieda Maloney
Jungle Holocaust
You!
The Dogs & Finale
The
Killers Arrive
Intrada's magnificent set is limited to a generous 5000 copies.
Order from
Intrada today!
Black
Patch Comes To DVD!
Jerry
Goldsmith's first theatrical movie comes to Region 1 DVD on September 30th!
Black Patch was a western that featured George Montgomery as Clay 'Black
Patch' Morgan a Marshal who puts a friend in Jail for Bank robbery, while two
locals plot to break him out. This will be a fascinating opportunity for most
Jerry Goldsmith fans to get to hear the composer's earliest score for the
first time. No extra content is mentioned.
The Omen
Blu-Ray To Feature Isolated Score in 5.1
The
Digital Bits website
reports that 20th Century Fox in the US will release
the original Omen movie on Blu-Ray on September 9th with all the extras from the previous
two special edition DVDs plus the isolated score in Dolby Digital 5.1.
Previously the isolated track only existed on the old Laser Disc
version of the movie released in the 90s. There will also be an
additional
commentary track featuring Nick Redman and Jeff
Bond discussing the score. The isolated score track
remains the only way to listen to Jerry Goldsmith's Oscar
winning score in its entirety as the deluxe edition soundtrack
released by Varese Sarabande in 2001 omitted a number of cues
from the score.
Sadly no indication on whether other territories will get this
release.
TER
Re-issue Goldsmith Soundtracks
TER
Records in the UK has re-issued their two Jerry Goldsmith
soundtrack releases Best Shot (Hoosiers) and
The Secret Of Nimh from the 80s and have appeared on Amazon
UK. Best Shot in particular has been out of print for
many years now and is a welcome re-issue for Jerry Goldsmith
aficionados.
Order Best Shot from this
link and The Secret Of Nimh
from this
link.
Jerry
Goldsmith's Friend And Orchestrator Alexander Courage Has Died
It
has been reported that the famed composer of the original
Star Trek TV series theme, Alexander Courage passed away on
May 15th. He was 88. Courage scored a handful of movies in the
50s but spent most of his time scoring for TV, as well as
adapting music and of course orchestrating scores by many of the
leading film composers including Alex North and John Williams.
Courage conducted a number of Jerry Goldsmith scores including Stagecoach
and the Flint scores for release on soundtrack album. Courage worked extensively
on the Waltons, scoring over 100 episodes and picking up
from where Goldsmith's famous theme and early episode scores
left off. Courage orchestrated for Goldsmith on occasion during
the 70s and 80s but became Goldsmith's principal orchestrator in the
90s as Arthur Morton's health began to fail. As well as
orchestrating for his close friend he also contributed
source music for Goldsmith most notably heard in Matinee
and The Wind
And The Lion. Goldsmith even asked Courage to provide a
special arrangement of his original Star Trek TV theme
for use in the score for Star Trek The Motion Picture.
Read Jon Burlingame's detailed obituary
here.
Studs
Lonigan On DVD
Studs
Lonigan featuring one of Jerry Goldsmith's earliest scores
has turned up on DVD. The disc appears to be available on its
own on Region 2 and part of a Jack Nicholson set on Region 1
titled Classic Jack. The film is full screen, in mono and
without extras.
Order From
Amazon UK
Under
Fire Soundtrack Re-issued By FSM
FSM
has re-issued the original soundtrack album to one of Jerry
Goldsmith's most critically acclaimed scores. Under Fire
was Oscar nominated back in 1983 and was lauded by even some of
the composer's harshest critics. FSM points out that they did
try to source the missing cues and alternates but were unable to
find any master tapes. But as the previously released WB Japan
and German discs are hard to find and expensive this new
affordable release with FSM's customary gold standard production
values and booklet should be of great interest to all Goldsmith
aficionados.
Order today from
Screen Archives!
New BT
TV Advert Features Goldsmith's Gremlins Music!
British Telecom are
advertising their 24/7 IT services in a new advert out on May 5th. The advert
features a late night office worker who finds his office invaded by the movie's
Gremlins set to the concert arrangement of Jerry Goldsmith's Gremlins
music. The advert will mostly likely be shown in the UK only but can be watched
at this
link.
Baby Secret Of The Lost
Legend CD Sold Out Within A Day!
Intrada's spectacular
CD release of Baby Secret Of The Lost Legend has sold out within a day!
Sadly it does seem some people have bought extra copies to sell on
eBay to try and make money, leaving some fans who missed it to buy a
copy at an inflated price. Let's hope in the future labels releasing such "Holy
Grail" scores can extend the license to put off prospectors.
Intrada
Announce Baby Secret Of The Lost Legend On CD!
No,
your eyes do not deceive you! Intrada have pulled off an incredible coup and released one of Jerry Goldsmith's most sort
after action adventure scores for Walt Disney's early Dinosaur
adventure. Back in 1993 Intrada's Doug
Fake produced a special promo disc featuring around 20 minutes
of this stunning score for attendees of an award dinner in
honour of Jerry Goldsmith. That disc was only available to the
select few and was considered a one off. Now in 2008 Intrada
have managed to do the unthinkable and release the complete
score, limited to 3000 copies. Thank you
Intrada and thank you Disney!
Samples From Intrada's Site
The Family
Dragon Breath
The Jump
Base Camp
Assault
The Rescue
Just a Legend
Jerry
Goldsmith Biography Unlikely To Ever Be Published According To
FSM's Lukas Kendall
Lukas Kendall has broken his silence on
his involvement with the Jerry Goldsmith biography penned by
Carrie Goldsmith. In a recent post to readers on his message
board Lukas reveals he
was attempting to assist Carrie and Joel with publication and
potential legal issues with some of the content. He reveals he
showed the manuscript to a third party without permission and
Carrie and Joel terminated their relationship with him. Lukas
goes on to say that the last he heard Carrie had shelved the
project indefinitely. You can read the post at this
link.
Obviously this is very sad news for Jerry Goldsmith's legion of
fans who were eagerly awaiting Carrie's book but at least we all
know the situation. Obviously we still hope that all the time
and effort Carrie put in to the book is not wasted and one day
we will see this important work published.
International Film Music Critics Association Award For Intrada's
Alien
Intrada's
magnificent 2 CD presentation of Jerry Goldsmith's classic score
to Alien produced by Mike Matessino and Nick Redman has
won the award in the category "Best
New Release/Re-Release/Re-Recording Of An Existing Score"
at the
International Film Music Critics Association. Intrada's
other sterling effort The Wind And The Lion was
nominated. Intrada also picked up the award for "Film Music
Label Of The Year".
New
Rambo Movie To Feature Goldsmith's Theme
The
new Rambo movie scored by the talented Brian Tyler is to feature Jerry Goldsmith's
classic theme from First Blood. The soundtrack on the Lionsgate label
will be released on February 5th and contains three cues that feature the theme
proper. It looks as if at the very least Jerry Goldsmith's theme bookends the
film. Though Tyler has written his own Rambo theme too. Sadly the action
music is woefully feeble compared to the complex and imaginative writing Jerry
Goldsmith contributed to the first three Rambo movies.
Stallone was recently questioned on the use of
Goldsmith's score over at
AICN.
20th
Century Fox in the US are releasing a mammoth Blu-Ray box set
featuring all the Planet Of The Apes movies in high def
and loaded with extras including isolated scores on all movies.
Though Jerry Goldsmith's landmark first score and quirky third
are well presented on CD by Varese it will be fun to watch some
of those key scenes music only in 5.1 DTS Master Audio. Jerry
Goldsmith's brief commentary from the earlier DVD release is
also included on the first movie. The set is due for release
November 4th. Internationally throughout the Fall.