Intrada Soundtrack Forum

8/6/2021

It’s official! Following the terrific results of our initial Kickstarter campaign that yielded our complete recording of Dimitri Tiomkin’s suspenseful score for Alfred Hitchcock’s classic Dial M For Murder, we are off and running again! This time our campaign focuses on two Jerry Goldsmith scores that have been lost to the ages but will arise at long last in brand new reconstructions of the manuscripts and lavish new performances by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, again under the precise conducting of William T. Stromberg. Black Patch, a 1957 Warner Bros. western and Goldsmith’s very first feature film score, and The Man, a vibrant 1972 Americana score for the ABC movie about the first black President, played by James Earl Jones and scripted by Rod Serling. Douglass Fake produces, Leigh Phillips reconstructs, and Roger Feigelson leads the entire Intrada team in assembling the Kickstarter campaign and getting the word out. Besides both scores being by Jerry Goldsmith, and otherwise seemingly unrelated beyond having their original master elements being lost, the two actually have one really interesting item in common: both are scored for full orchestra but have a key instrument dropped from their orchestrations: Black Patch does not have any trumpets, giving the resulting score a darker edge to it, and The Man has no violins, allowing the splendid brass and woodwinds to lead the way. With the recordings being set for October and with Simon Rhodes (James Horner’s legendary mixer) again engineering the sessions, supporters of this project can be assured of the top drawer quality and authenticity of the results, as we accomplished with the Tiomkin release.

And in exciting John Williams news, enjoy this coming week’s world premiere actual soundtrack release for his exciting 1975 music for The Eiger Sanction, the mountain-climbing thriller directed by and starring Clint Eastwood and previously available only as a 36-minute re-recorded album. With more than twice as much music now, find track details, sound samples and details right here this coming Monday. Orders for the 2-CD sets begin shipping out on Tuesday the 10th. This one is a dazzler!