Intrada Soundtrack Forum

10/3/2021

In one week we’ll be in Glasgow, recording two never-before-available Jerry Goldsmith scores with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. We’ll have William Stromberg on the podium and Simon Rhodes in the booth, ensuring everyone this is going to be one sensational album! The Man is Goldsmith scoring in his most powerful Americana vernacular, right down to the brilliant opening fanfare, written in a soaring brass and percussion-dominated Coplandesque manner. When James Earl Jones picks up that telephone and answers, “Yes, this is Douglass Dillman speaking”, not only is Jones about to become the first African American President of the United States (well, in fictional 1972 Hollywood terms), but Goldsmith announces this historical event to the world.

Black Patch takes us all the way back to Goldsmith’s very first film score, written in 1957. It’s a western, a genre in which fans particularly love the composer’s work. And the central love theme for this score is one of Goldsmith’s most haunting of a lengthy career filled with great themes.

As for this week’s newest CD, we are simply pairing the two most requested and popular of the six albums included in our praised Elmer Bernstein collection of Ava titles from the 1960’s: To Kill A Mockingbird and Walk On The Wild Side for those who just want those two landmark recordings together on a single disc. For anyone wondering, of the many recordings of To Kill A Mockingbird thus far released, none really compares with the original 1962 album. Captured in crisp stereo sound, this very first version has the particular detail and intimacy from close miking that the treasured score benefits from. With many of the players from the actual soundtrack sessions involved, it is simply the one to enjoy. Copies will be available starting this Tuesday, October 5.