His music took my breath away! Toochis
Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 22, 2014, at 1:07 AM, David Kusumoto <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Rosza was great even with his "later" scores. I'm thinking of his work in > the 1979 low-budget Nicholas Meyer cult sci-fi pic, "Time After Time," with > Malcolm McDowell, Mary Steenburgen and David Warner, which had H.G. Wells in > Victorian garb chasing Jack the Ripper in modern-day San Francisco. > > What gave me chills - and I can't find it anywhere online - was the music > that accompanied the opening credits - which Rosza decided to begin with the > Warner Brothers' classic-sounding "fanfare" - before segueing into a lush and > ominous sounding score that made this low-cost pic feel like it had been > budgeted for mega-millions. > > I found an extract on You Tube at the link below - and while it does NOT > include the WB "fanfare" and opening credits - it does have a 4-minute sample > of how much more fun the pic was with Rosza's score: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OOKd03Fvvs > > > Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 21:16:34 -0600 > From: [email protected] > Subject: Re: FROM SCREEN ARCHIVES ENTERTAINMENT VIDEO OF ROZSA'S MAIN TITLE > TO QUO VADIS > To: [email protected] > > I loved Rosza, so when we did a film music “spectacular” at the public radio > station I worked at in the mid-seventies, I did an > interview with him, arranged by a friend Tom DeMary. Somehow Criterion found > out about this, and used part of the interview, which Tom fortunately had a > copy of, in their release of THE THIEF OF BAGHDAD. But only a small part of > it. I have the whole thing and I should present it somehow. In the > Criterion, you don’t hear much of me. They (mercifully!) edited me out > largely. > > Ha! > > > Kirby > > On Feb 21, 2014, at 9:07 PM, Phillip Ayling <[email protected]> wrote: > > Kirby, > > I share your love for Rozsa’s music. The re-recordings are great, both in > quality and the fact that the music can find itself independent of the > demands of synchronization. Often times composers would compose something > only to find when they arrived on the scoring stage that a re-edit was done > and the music had to be re-synched or recomposed right on the spot because of > a last minute picture edit. > > I also enjoy hearing those recordings (even if sonically primitive by current > standards) which were conducted by Rozsa himself. A trove of great music for > his films can be found here. > > http://www.miklosrozsa.org/ > > Best Regards > From: MoPo List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kirby > McDaniel > Sent: Friday, February 21, 2014 6:56 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [MOPO] FROM SCREEN ARCHIVES ENTERTAINMENT VIDEO OF ROZSA'S MAIN > TITLE TO QUO VADIS > > In 1959, when I saw BEN-HUR in Camera 65 for the first time, I was not only > in awe of the great spectacle married to > great direction, but I was also swept up in love for the great music by > Miklos Rozsa. So as soon as I could get the coin together, I went to the > record store and bought the soundtrack in the big MGM box. That led to > curiosity about the other Rozsa scores, and that led to exposure to the Great > Father to the score of BEN-HUR, QUO VADIS. I soon discovered I loved it as > well. > > I was delighted to see this video on the website of Screen Archives > Entertainment of the City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra playing the main > title. They have just released a two-CD set of the score. > > > http://www.screenarchives.com/title_detail.cfm/ID/22193/QUO-VADIS-2CD/ > > > > Kirby McDaniel > MovieArt Original Film Posters > P.O. 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