Jerry Goldsmith, LaLaLand , Not Without My Daughter

I figured you knew that anyway!? A compliment it was!

Me proud geek

Indeed, the difference IS important; about a couple sizes smaller the geek's glasses and braces are than the nerd's

Geeks can be cool and relativity normal people who happen to have a lot of knowledge about a specific subject which is not usually considered cool (although a general music geek is an exception among others since music IS cool).

A nerd is someone who is socially awkward and usually adheres to a stereotypical image.

Out of those two, I'd like to think I'm am the former!

Because geeks know stuff about Star Wars

Curiously, in Norway it's the other way around!

Some will do whatever is necessary to make a point.
Thomas

You didn't offend me but I think there should be a little more respect for what Bernstein did with his re-recordings and how FSM saved these wonderful albums and made them available for a whole new generation of fans. Like Charles Gerhardt, Bernstien's film music collection played a significent role in exposing film music to the masses in the 1970's Some of the scores Bernstien recorded were the first time they had been made available to the public. And these albums weren't just short suites, they were carefully produced albums that could only play as long as an LP... about 45 minutes. While that's not close to a complete presentation for SOME of the scores in the series SOME of the scores recorded were complete presentations... To Kill A Mockingbird being one of them. Bernstein stated in the liner notes, "I think the primary value in what we intend to do is to produce completely faithful reproductions of entire scores. It is not our intention to reproduce every note for archival purposes, but rather to present all the pieces of a particular score which represent it well and which can stand alone." It's funny but Bernstein actually DISAPPROVED with Gerhardt's approach by recording only short suites rarely exceeding 10 minutes in length for one film.

So, I would never call these albums compilations. Compilations contain tracks from numerous scores comprising of cues most of the time no longer than 5-6 minutes. These compilations give quick highlights of a particular score and then move on. The stuff Kunzel does for Telarc can be called compilations. Same with Silva's re-recordings.

-Erik-

There must have been a grave oversight in my understanding of the release. Bernstein re-recorded all this material?? Wow, I thought that these were just his favourite pieces as hand-picked from their respective original recordings. I didn't realize the extent of the labour that went into this production!

Of course it doesn't change the fact that this box set isn't the thing for me. These presentations are indeed almost always partial, and most of these scores have been released since then in complete form, and those that haven't hopefully will one day soon. What Bernstein accomplished is a monster work of film music preservation and exposition, to be sure, it just happens that the maestro and I disagree on what a score presentation should be. But heh, he's the professional! I'm just the customer. The copy I'm not buying can instead be claimed by someone else who can appreciate it better.

Thanks for explaining it Erik!
J-F

Bernstein is my kinda guy!

I would have picked up this FSM box if I could have afforded it.

Hey, maybe he didn't know it? As it apparently is so? No need to jump down one's throat 'cause he didn't know something, i wasn't aware of the true nature of the release either but that's not the end of the world, is it?

If you'd read this thread you wouldn't have posted this D.

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I miss religious nuts with billboards....*sigh*

Heh I actually enjoyed THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW's lifts from the thin red line and all; doesn't anyone else enjoy this, the slightest at least?