ROTK Music podcast

[serai]

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This is cool.

That's a link to a Film Score Monthly podcast about the new ROTK Complete Recordings. Doug Adams, who wrote the liner notes for all three of the completes, and who spoke so engagingly at ORC this year, presents the material. He's very energetic and into it.

The podcast includes listener questions. Here's one that made me roll my eyes:

The Return of the King soundtrack is much more complex than the other films. Was that a conscious decision?

Noooo. It just kinda happened in the studio while we were playing it. All of a sudden all the musicians took off busking and we ended up with this massive THING. *snort*

Another treat: at the end of the podcast we get to hear 30 seconds of an alternate scoring for the Argonath scene in FOTR, which did not get used in that film.

Enjoy!


P.S. If you stay on after the end, the next podcast (which comes up automatically) is a very interesting discussion of the enduring popularity of the Dies Irae theme. This is a piece of music written in the 1300's that is still popular, used as thematic material by composers in all kinds of instances. (Even if you don't recognize the name, believe me, you know this music.) Take a listen, it's fascinating.

Comments

[belleferret.livejournal.com]

I finally got a chance to listen to this. A couple of silly questions, and I thought the argument about directors micromanaging the score-writing process was amusing, but overall very interesting.

And I liked the Argonath theme they actually used better, but it could just be because I've watched the scene and listened to the sound track a zillion times!

[serai1.livejournal.com]

That argument was silly. I was rolling my eyes whenever that guy kept sniffing about how simply AWFUL it was for a director to have input on the music. Bitch please, this isn't the 40's.

I rather like the Argonath piece they played here. It's a different feel from the film, less heroic and more melancholy. That's due to the use of the Gondor theme, I think, which is basically a sad cue.

And eeek! another book next year! The Middle Earth cornucopia just keeps giving and giving. *is happy*

[belleferret.livejournal.com]

I was rolling my eyes at that guy too!

And YAY for the M-E cornucopia!