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INTRADA Announces:



THE THANKSGIVING PROMISE
Music Composed and Conducted by BRUCE BROUGHTON
INTRADA Special Collection Vol. 252


Bruce Broughton’s traditional Americana take for the 1986 Walt Disney television film The Thanksgiving Promise isn’t concerned with an America of spacious skies, amber waves of grain or purple mountain majesties, but one of dusty backwoods roads, clear-water swimming holes and weathered painted barns. It’s the quiet, small-town America of hay rides, costumed fairs and broken-down pickup trucks. Broughton assembled an orchestra consisting of strings, woodwinds, guitars, dulcimer, recorder, keyboards, harmonica, vibraphone and light percussion, displaying the composer's passion for the Americana idiom.

Broughton recorded his music at the Disney Studios scoring stage with his engineer of choice, Armin Steiner. The complete score was recorded and mixed onto three rolls of two-channel stereo tape and vaulted in pristine condition waiting for the day Intrada arrived to assemble it onto an album and present the premiere of this heart-felt Bruce Broughton score.

Beau Bridges directs and stars as Hank Tilby, a simple farmer trying to raise his family, eke out a living and stay out of debt. The story centers on 12-year-old Travis (Jordan Bridges), a loner looking to make his mark. When neighbor Stu Larson (Lloyd Bridges) finds a wounded Canadian gosling, he pays Travis twenty dollars to feed the bird and deliver it six weeks later, slaughtered and dressed, for the Larson’s Thanksgiving meal. Travis becomes attached to the bird and tries to save it from the chopping block, but Hank is determined to teach his son a lesson in keeping his word, even at the expense of the bird’s life.

INTRADA Special Collection Vol. 252
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The music description indicates that this score could be right up my alley. I look forward to hearing the samples.

Edit: Never mind, the samples are up. It sounds excellent.

Broughton/Intrada have done it again.
Thank you all involved with this sweet release & happy ThanksGiving

Broughton doing Americana? I'm down.

A big Thank You from me for some new Bruce Broughton music.
It's great to see a label continuing to shine the torch for this fine composer.

All the clips are up now...so you can get a better sampling of this obscure score now.

I have a hunch this release got lost in all the high-profile end-of-2013 releases. If so, that's a shame. This is a delightful score for a television film I never heard of. In this day of two-note themes, Broughton's long-lined melodies (I lost count at fifty notes in this one!) are a very welcome respite! The '80s cheese is minimal (don't let the logo's typeface fool you!), and as is typical, the score actually goes somewhere, ending with an emotional climax. I've been listening to this one a lot. I hope other people are enjoying it, too.

Yet another lovely bit of Americana from Mr. Broughton. Thanks, Intrada. It's a fine addition to Mr. B's discography.

This is getting my first play right now!
It's such a joy to hear a new/old score like this.
Fragments of YSH, Boy Who Could Fly, Old Man & The Sea and his Amazing Stories scores keep washing over me.
It's just pure unbridled Broughton joy.
Many thanks again, people of Intrada