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INTRADA Announces:

COMES A HORSEMAN
Composed and Conducted by MICHAEL SMALL
INTRADA Special Collection Volume 61

This week's release from Intrada presents the previously unavailable score to Michael Small's Comes a Horseman. At the time, Michael Small was coming off a multi-picture stint in which he almost single-handedly created the genre of brooding, unsettling paranoid music that was a signature of film during the 1970s. Comes a Horseman represents a stylistic about-face for which Small provided a rousing, traditional western score, yet injected with the darker hue of his thrillers. It is, in fact, quite possibly Small's most powerful and impressive large-scale orchestral score. The score as recorded, however, is not exactly what is presented in the film. The film presents spare imagery and repressed emotions at its core, which led to the music being substantially altered in the film. Major cues went unused, others were re-used in piecemeal fashion as if the filmmakers were not entirely certain of the tone they wanted. It's a measure of Small's gift as a composer that the results are still affecting and quite powerful in the film. But when heard apart from the picture, in their unedited glory, the score delivers a fresh, yet traditional Americana sound, with both thrilling action and deep feeling.

Comes a Horsemen was released in 1978 and featured a strong cast, including Jane Fonda, Jason Robards, and James Caan. Set in 1940s wartime, it boasts a rather straightforward western tale of a rancher's widow who is pressured by a cattle baron to sell her land so that they can drill for the wealth of oil hidden beneath it. This was Small's fourth film for director Alan Pakula, following Klute, Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing, and The Parallax View.

While there was never an official soundtrack LP for the film, Michael Small evidently planned for one and assembled eighteen tracks of music presented here for the first time in crisp stereo sound. This release is limited to 1500 units.


INTRADA Special Collection - Volume 61
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Most excellent.....kudos Intrada, this is a great one!

Ordered Immediatly. Love Small's scores. Love the Artwork also very nice.

Ditto!

Ordered immediately, simply because this is one my favorite scores by the great Michael Small.

Another gem available! Great... And may I add I truly hope those 1500 copies will fly out the window as soon as possible, because this is really splendid music deserving the biggest success.

And the cover artwork is simply gorgeous!

Bravo!!

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Thanks guys, ordered!
Niall.

I've watched the film quite recently and was left with the impression of the burning house and of no soundtrack release. Thank you Intrada for taking care at least of one of these two things !

And I see there's again a skipped volume (#60) -- perhaps reserved for "Gone In 60 Seconds" ?

Intrada, thank you very much, ordered!

ordered ! and what a beautiful cover artwork !

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Andy

Thanks for releasing this one, Intrada! I don't have too many Michael Small scores in my collection (only 7*), but I like every single one of them. His music always impresses me. What a versatile composer Mr. Small was.

I often play his Black Widow score, and I've been playing FSM's release of Klute a lot lately. Hopefully we'll see even more Michael Small music released in the future. You're on a roll, Intrada! Keep up the excellent work

Cheers,
Bent Erik

*including this one...

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Karl Morton IV

"Enjoy every sandwich."
-- Warren Zevon

The "Ella At Eventide; Round Up" cue is outstanding.