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1970 was a very big year for composer Jerry Goldsmith: amazingly, in addition to Tora! Tora! Tora! and Patton, he also scored The Ballad of Cable Hogue, The Travelling Executioner and Rio Lobo, throwing a couple of TV movies in for good measure. All in a days work for this extraordinary maestro, who had already proven his mettle writing music for films akin to Tora! in both genre and theme: In Harms Way (1965), The Blue Max (1966) and The Sand Pebbles (1966) are all incisive studies of war and its attendant damage, scored with a combination of disturbing dissonance and sheer splendour.The Main Title opens with a descending whine suggesting the deadly dive of a bomber. This instant summing-up of the horrors to come, bizarrely disorientating, segues into a spare and elegant Japanese-style motif initiated by the koto, gradually taken up by the ominous sound of the serpent, and eventually joined by the full orchestra, deployed for maximum exoticism - and threat. The conspicuous absence of violins from the score was apparently the result of a challenge from Goldsmiths friend and fellow composer Alex North. The staggered rhythmic movement heard in the main title is a technique used to represent the concept of miscommunication in the film.Created from the original manuscript, this release offers a rare opportunity to study film music in its authentic, original orchestration and arrangement. An opportunity not to be missed!
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Jerry Goldsmith
Full Orchestra
Bobby Darin
Cody Fry
James Horner
Full Orchestra, Orchestra
Lalo Schifrin
Sean O'Loughlin
Ted Ricketts
Kander & Ebb
(P/k/a Sam Watts)
Claude-Michael Schonberg
Orchestra
Klaus Badelt
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