Intrada Soundtrack Forum

2/25/2023

Fans of Marco Beltrami’s early orchestral scores are in for a treat! Our next release is his sizzling score for The Faculty, a horror/sci-fi outing from 1998. The action takes place within a high school setting and Marco’s music packs fireworks! 90 minutes of music to keep your pulse racing.

Two weeks ago, Maestro William Stromberg stayed at my place for a few days. Bernard Herrmann music filled the air. We did some mixing from the 49-track digital sessions recorded by our dear friend Mike Ross-Trevor for The Man Who Knew Too Much and On Dangerous Ground. The album will be coming your way soon. Anyway, Bill was a most gracious guest, warm and personable, with oodles of stuff we could talk about. Favorite composers, favorite scores, albums we grew up with, our common interest in symphonic band music, orchestrating, our families, whatever. We got all of our work completed and even managed to watch a couple of movies. Something old, something more recent: Signs, where Bill got to discover one of James Newton Howard’s greatest works, and Mildred Pierce, so I could discover an unfamiliar Max Steiner score. As an aside, I’m not a huge Joan Crawford fan, but she was a sensation in this 1945 melodrama with shades of noir. The Oscar she won for her performance was well-deserved. An extra treat: I am a fan of Michael Curtiz and enjoy catching every Warner Bros. movie he directed. A lot of genuine classics are his. And, golly, you’ve got all those magnificent Erich Wolfgang Korngold and Max Steiner scores to go with them!