HUGO FRIEDHOFER

Are you saying it's the curse of the temp track Tom, or that Moross ghost wrote the alternate theme?

It is a recording of Moross' The Jayhawkers. Bruce explained it all at FSM. You have to sift through a lot of shit and fanboy rants but the explanation is in THIS THREAD... SOMEWHERE.

-Erik-

Bruce actually doesn't know for sure what happened...

They may have contemplated using it - who knows? Too long ago. I haven't seen the other film since it came out. It does sound like it was recorded at the same session, though. And yes, it's instantly apparent it's Moross, but the thinking was that someone wanted a Big Country-ish main title - certainly that's been known to happen. But maybe they did track the film with the Moross and then asked for it to be recorded again at the session. Anything's possible, I suppose. But the slate is consistent with this recording session.

-Erik-

Anyway a lot of my classical following found the whole thing quite interesting. Apparently Bruce doesn't realize that other people read my reviews.
Thomas

stay tuned for further developments. this whole scenario is going to get interesting.
thomas

I wrote something on the FSM board. You might not like what I had to say.

-Erik-

I'm not that familiar with Friedhofer, but I think his BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES is a brilliant score. I often use the airplane graveyard scene in my lectures as an example of how music can say EVERYTHING about a character's psychological state. Not too sure how it holds up as a listening experience, though (I have no Friedhofer in my collection), but he's very interesting from a purely contextual viewpoint.

Your right I didn't like it but I responded on the same thread on FSM. Read it carefully.
Thomas

your guilty of not emailing me or talking on facebook privately. you don't know the whole story.
thomas

What I was commenting on the ridiculousness of that thread. I made those comments for you and everyone to see.

-Erik-

Look up.... waaaaaaaaay up.

thanks

I haven't listened to the clips yet but was I reading there is an "archival" sound to this release and Bruce is specifically suggesting to listen to the clips?

Inferior sound quality compared with today's high fidelity shouldn't be a barrier to the music.

Both "The Barbarian and the Geisha" and "Violent Saturday" composed by Hugo Friedhofer have been previously released and sold out on the Intrada label. Working on my review of the new release from Kritzerland. If you like Hugo Friedhofer these are two excellent examples of what he is capable of doing.
Tom