The recent release of Lee Holdridge's In Search of Peace made me pull the Charles Gerhardt album off of my shelf. It has a suite from a television series I had a vague memory of from 1983 called Wizards and Warriors. Aside from the main theme, which stuck in my head for many years, I recall that the action in the show would fade to a painting at each commercial break, which was a nifty effect.
Apparently the program only ran eight episodes and was scored by Holdridge and Alf Clausen. I have no idea how much music they produced for the show, but the Gerhardt suite is quite exciting, and I expect that the whole enterprise would yield a rollicking, swashbuckling adventure album!
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