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INTRADA Announces:



IN COUNTRY
Composed and Conducted by JAMES HORNER
INTRADA Special Collection Vol. 230

By 1989, composer James Horner had firmly established himself in the upper echelons of film music. That year alone brought diverse projects such as the comedy-drama Dad, the wacky family film Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, the brutal Civil War drama Glory and a third Oscar nomination for the mystical Field of Dreams. While Glory’s battlements necessitated large orchestral forces and the Harlem Boys Choir to depict the awful effects of war, In Country required a more introspective musical take. The music consists primarily of solo instruments and small chamber ensembles, only opening up during the climactic battle flashback and the finale at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Whether voiced on the trumpet or another instrument, the powerful main theme weaves throughout the score as “distant memories” of what was loved and lost. The poignant highlight of the score is the finale at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in which Horner provides a 10-minute emotional tour de force that builds in intensity, combining the primary themes and motifs as the trio search for Dwayne’s name and Emmett’s fellow comrades-in-arms on the Memorial Wall.

When Intrada embarked on this project, Warner Bros. produced from their vaults two rolls of high speed tape already assembled and produced by James Horner for a potential 39-minute LP (sides A & B) and CD release back in the day (including the longer than standard pauses between tracks that he favors when presenting music of reflection and emotion). At the end of the B roll, we discovered 12 minutes of additional music consisting of the remaining cues in the film that Horner didn’t include on the planned album, but that he nonetheless mixed and assembled for posterity. Intrada was happily able to gain his approval for the complete master, extras and all.

Based on Bobbie Ann Mason’s celebrated 1985 novel, In Country stars Emily Lloyd as a teenager in a sleepy Kentucky town who yearns to discover how the father she never met died “in country,” the term soldiers used to define their tours of duty in Vietnam. At the same time, she tries to understand the damage afflicting her uncle, a battle-scarred Vietnam vet (Bruce Willis).


INTRADA Special Collection Vol. 230
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Where have I heard that theme from "Fallen Friends"? It's pretty much note-for-note. I can hear it, but I can't place it.

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"Questions are a burden to others; answers a prison for oneself"
"Unlike me, many of you have accepted the situation of your imprisonment and will die here like rotten cabbages."
"Everyone votes for a dictator."
THE PRISONER

Have you heard Horner's music for his P-51 Mustang aerobatic team The Horsemen?

If you have, that's your answer.

No, that's not it. Well, maybe I have to drop it and think about it tomorrow.

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"Questions are a burden to others; answers a prison for oneself"
"Unlike me, many of you have accepted the situation of your imprisonment and will die here like rotten cabbages."
"Everyone votes for a dictator."
THE PRISONER

Instant buy for me. Time to retire my 'other' copy.

It's fro ma film or TV score, earlier. Not from any Horner score I can think of. I heard it at least twice in the cue, as I recall. Especially in the opening with the trombone line(?).

EDIT:
Begins at 1:09.

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"Questions are a burden to others; answers a prison for oneself"
"Unlike me, many of you have accepted the situation of your imprisonment and will die here like rotten cabbages."
"Everyone votes for a dictator."
THE PRISONER

Thank you so much, Intrada... Warner Bros.! Keep closing the books on all these great early Horner scores.

Another fine Horner to the collection.
Doug & Co you are really spoiling us with these gems.
Keep raiding & keep them coming

Wow this is a major release (the first of 2013 !) and in the basket !

Tharp, maybe you're thinking of Legends of the Fall. Same themes (war, friends, family) and the sound of Legends of the Fall was very reminiscent of In Country (the use of the Shakuhachi), very much in the continuity (thematically and musically). But the two scores have different stories and emotions in store ! That's the beauty of James Horner.

Woohoo, In Country at last!

Thank you so much to Mr Horner & to the Intrada dream team!

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Finally! I have been bitching so long about this one!
Hopefully we won't have to wait for Volunteers another 15 months and there is more Horner coming in near future.

Time to start bitch-fest about something else... hmmm... hard to decide... proper releases of Swing Kids, My Heroes..., Apollo 13 or premieres such as I love you to Death, Deadly Blessing, The Hand?

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A day a did make a difference! I believe I have it nailed now (I just got to find the CD in my collection to double confirm):

The theme is used in two or three cues from one of the "Hercules: The Legendary Journeys" TV movies (before it took off as a series), by Joseph LoDuca.

There was a lot of temp track borrowing in some cues. The main title to the show alone owes a lot fo a Kamen cue from "Robin Hood".

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"Questions are a burden to others; answers a prison for oneself"
"Unlike me, many of you have accepted the situation of your imprisonment and will die here like rotten cabbages."
"Everyone votes for a dictator."
THE PRISONER

WOW!! This is awesome! I'm glad this score's finally been given a proper release, and this will definitely be on my 2013 list of purchases! Thank you, Intrada, and thank you Mr. Horner! ^^