Did anyone hear/enjoy it? I was so tired I went to sleep in the late afternoon, meaning to listen, but woke when it was over.
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Saly: I didn't hear it. To me most film music can't be separated from the on-screen action it was composed to accompany. I can think of few film scores that stand up on their own as concert music, or can be compared with music for the concert hall by the same composers. A counter argument would be that the same applies to much ballet music; but as I have never been a fan of ballet per se, for me much of the music associated with the genre is preferable without the stage action - with the exception of Bartok's Miraculous Mandarin, though I can still hear the music in its own right as a remarkable score. If the music has a developing, organic structure, that to me is fine. The only exceptions for me in the movie arena is the music Walton composed for Henry V and Richard III, Eisler's Septet No 2, composed for a Chaplin film, and Satie's Ballet Mecanique, for similar reasons to the Bartok.
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Hello S_A, that's what another MBer said to me today. I quite like to hear Bernard Herrmann's pieces as I [but apparently no-one else] see a slight resemblance to Bruckner scherzos in them. I agree some music cries out for the film though. I love ballet,have seen many, don't worry about hearing a concert performance of the music as I can usually imagine the action. salyComment
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