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INTRADA
Announces:



THOSE CALLOWAYS
Composed and Conducted by MAX STEINER
INTRADA Special Collection Vol. 238


Max Steiner’s score for Those Calloways is old-fashioned in the best sense of the term. It is unashamedly symphonic—in an era that saw composers like Lalo Schifrin, Henry Mancini and others continue to move film music away from the purely symphonic model. Steiner uses several themes as leitmotifs throughout the film, developing them with well-honed craft and technique in an art form that he himself more or less created. For the geese, the balletic beauty of their flight and their unfettered freedom are musically reflected in a waltz. Open-hearted and embracing, the theme accompanies many magnificent long shots of the birds soaring across the New England sky, occasionally arrange in more gentle orchestral settings—such as those featuring solo cello and English horn. Steiner’s theme for the Calloways is equally forthright. Introduced in the main title, it is masculine but gentle.

For one of his final feature film scores, Max Steiner created over an hour’s worth of rich, warmly American music. For this premiere release of the soundtrack, featuring every note of music Steiner recorded for the film, Intrada was given access to the complete recording session elements, originally made on multi-channel 35mm magnetic film and later transferred intact onto 2″ analog tape. Still later, these elements were transferred into digital formats to be vaulted alongside the other audio elements of the picture. Thanks to Disney’s legendary reputation for preserving their elements with care, every channel for every cue, including overdubs for the two rousing songs written by Richard M. and Robert B. Sherman, survived in beautiful condition. Though the film itself was presented in mono only, having the original multi-track elements made it possible for us to prepare new two-track stereo mixes of every cue. This beautiful new release also marks Max Steiner's premiere appearance on the Intrada label.

Cam Calloway (Brian Keith) is a man with a mission. He dreams of creating a sanctuary for the geese that fly over his cabin near Swiftwater, Vermont, each fall. His teenaged son shares his ideals, but his long-suffering wife (Vera Miles) just wants to eke out a better existence from their fur-trapping exploits. The citizens of Swiftwater look on “those crazy Calloways” as outsiders. A slick-talking salesman wants to sell them a scheme that would turn their quaint New England village into a hunters’ paradise. This conflict between exploitation and conservation forms the crux of the drama in Walt Disney’s Those Calloways (1965).

INTRADA Special Collection Vol. 238
Retail Price: $19.99
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Loved Max Steiner growing up and I still do. ORDERED!

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Robert M Eastman

Not just one of his final, his final final score. Someone incorrectly added his name to the main composer section of "The Letter". Rosenthal adapted music by Steiner for the remake; such credits, in this case "themes", belong in the Music Dept. credits section further down in any IMDb film page.

So unless he did a score for a film after that that go shelved, wasn't fully recorded, or had a score rejected for a film after that but before his death, this is his final score.

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THE PRISONER

What a treat! Thank you, Disney, Intrada, Mr. Steiner. I've ordered this and Oz the Great and Powerful. Very nice Monday.

That's great. I believe I mentioned this score a couple of times, what a great CD. I have an old radio spots LP of the promotional campaign of the film, used to listen to it to hear snippets of Max Steiner's music in the background. You'll have my order in a couple of days.

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"I used to worry about losing my mind. Now that I've lost it I don't worry about it anymore." -Wavy Gravy

Always great to see those classics come to fruitition.
Thank you Intrada for embracing Mr Steiner to your label.
Looking forward to more Disney gems that i just know are lurking in the dark waiting to see the light.

The samples sound Fan-FRIGGIN-Tastic!! I decided to take a chance with this release and buy it on instinct. I'll be glad to finally have a Max Steiner score in my collection. ^^ Also, I bought this along with another great Disney score, Paul Smith's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. So now, my weekend is gonna be Disney-tastic! Once again, Intrada, Doug, all hamsters, and Disney, thank you for such amazing film scores!

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"I used to worry about losing my mind. Now that I've lost it I don't worry about it anymore." -Wavy Gravy

Figured I might as well repost what I wrote at FSM:
"The exciting thing about this is that it's one of Steiner's last scores (in fact I thought it was his very last, but Intrada doesn't seem to think so in their description), in good stereo sound. Most of his later scores don't exist that way because they were written for other studios which didn't preserve their elements as well. Disney to the rescue! Gives me hope that we might even see the original tracks for older stuff like Clifton Parker's Treasure Island (or Robin Hood for that matter)...

So now Intrada has presented the best-sounding original tracks, for the most recent scores, by three great Golden Age masters: Tiomkin (Last Wagon), Kaper (Tobruk), and now Steiner! Here's hoping they can continue this trend with, say, Franz Waxman's Lost Command (1966) or especially Alfred Newman's Firecreek (since they've started into the Warner Bros. vault and this penultimate score is totally unreleased) or maybe even the original tracks to Airport!

Yavar "

Just a wonderful Max Steiner score beautifully recorded, absolutely love this recoding. I wish other Steiner scores were available with the glorius CALLOWAYS sound.

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Robert M Eastman

Damn,
Last call already?!?

This is a great Disney release.
Get one before it flies away....

Why was this score deleted so quickly? Barely one month and it's gone.

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"I used to worry about losing my mind. Now that I've lost it I don't worry about it anymore." -Wavy Gravy

I believe the first run was almost gone and the sellings weren't good enough to launch a new run. As simple as that. I'm glad I have mine, such an historic release !

Well it's a shame. Max Steiner is one of the innovators of the art of film scoring, he and Erich Korngold set the stage for many composers past and present. I can't get into specifics as I'm not qualified to offer any sort of in depth analysis but to my ears Ennio Morricone was greatly influenced by his western scores. I believe had Max Steiner and Erich Korngold not existed film music would have never evolved as it did over the years.

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"I used to worry about losing my mind. Now that I've lost it I don't worry about it anymore." -Wavy Gravy

That's for sure !