Intrada Soundtrack Forum

Bill Stromberg, Anna Bonn and I would like to announce
the formation of a new record label: TRIBUTE FILM
CLASSICS. Our new label will continue recording great
film music from the Golden Age through the Silver Age,
and beyond. For those who are familiar with our Marco
Polo (Naxos) rerecordings, we hope to continue
recording deserved scores that have been either
ignored or survive in less than pristine condition. We
plan on continuing our mantra of complete renditions -
including music that may have been omitted or edited
in the final film. We will record both music from
famous films and composers, as well as the more
esoteric repertoire.

Although we still plan on continuing with Naxos, we
feel there are so many wonderful scores that need and
deserve restoration and recording, that by creating
our own label would help get more recordings to the
public. For those who have followed our recordings, we
started with Marco Polo back in 1994. The first
several years, we averaged 4 albums per year, but in
recent times, we have been averaging only one CD per
year. So far, we have recorded something like 35 CDs
of classic film music. There are still hundreds of
scores worthy of recording and we just feel the time
is right to launch our label while we all are still
alive and possess most of our faculties.

We plan on doing our first two albums early in 2007,
and we hope they can be ready by summer. We will be
working with Screen Archives, who will produce the
actual CDs.

I am sure the next question is what will be included
on our maiden voyage. So here is a list of what is
planned for our label and what we have lined up for
Naxos.

FOR NAXOS:
In the can is the complete recording of Korngold's THE
SEA HAWK and DECEPTION (including the film version of
the Cello Concerto) This will be our first double
disc. It should be released later next year.

Also on tap for Naxos, to be recorded early next year,
will be Max Steiner's complete score for the 1935
production of SHE, which is one of the most
adventurous scores of the thirties.

On that trip, we will also be recording an Americana
Bernard Herrmann CD that will include the complete THE
KENTUCKIAN and the complete WILLIAMSBURG-THE STORY OF
A PATRIOT.

FOR TRIBUTE FILM CLASSICS:
We are starting out with a (musical) bang. Our first
recording will be Bernard Herrmann's complete score
for MYSTERIOUS ISLAND, including music and portions of
cues that didn't make the final cut of the film.

Also, we are recording a complete FAHRENHEIT 451 by
the redoubtable Bernard Herrmann, along with our
arrangement of WALKING DISTANCE for large string
orchestra. We felt that this latter piece would be
ideal for a string orchestra in the manner of Barber's
ADAGIO adaptation for string orchestra.

Needless to say, Bill, Anna and I are very excited
about our new endeavor and hope we can count on you in
helping make it a success. Bill and I have worked as a
team for many years; Anna is both a superb musician
and that rarity in musicians, having a good business
sense. She has been invaluable in many of our recent
recordings and never received the credit she deserves.
She is also Bill's wife, which shows Bill's inherit
good taste.

John Morgan

Thats excellent news. I wish you all the best with your new label, and I hope it will be succesfull.

Also great to see you will be doing Bernard Herrmann again. The Marco Polo releases of "Five Fingers", "The Snows of the Kilimanjaro", "The Egyptian", "Garden of Evil", and especially "Jane Eyre", find their way to my cd-player on a regular base.

Looking forward to the new Bernard Herrmann recordings.

All the best of luck in this great new venture!

You guys have already done a lot for the preservation of film music through your excellent re-recordings; I hope you can keep on doing so for several years more, and that Ribute Film Classics will make things easier for you.

Those two Herrmann scores are a great start. I love Fahrenheit 451 (the little I have, that is).

Will you be able to produce mutli-format discs as you have already done? (ie, CD/SACD, DVD-A)

If that's not too indiscrete, what will be the advantages for you of having your own recording company?

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DavidinBerkeley

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DavidinBerkeley

"Ask [the director] where the camera comes from and I'll tell him where the music comes from" (David Raksin)

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Mr. Morgan this is fantastic information, I have enjoyed all of your recordings many of them superb. Good luck on this venture, and I look forward to getting all of these future recordings.

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Robert M Eastman