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Alexander the Great and Other Rare Rosenman Combat!, Alexander the Great, Sybil among rescued TV recordings Academy Award- and Emmy-winning Leonard Rosenman (1924-2008) – celebrated composer of East of Eden, Rebel Without a Cause, Fantastic Voyage and Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home – also wrote music for other media. The Film Music Society, the entertainment industry-based preservation group, has recently rescued and restored some of Rosenman's music from four historic television productions and a theme park attraction, and is releasing these archival recordings on a 76-minute CD called Alexander the Great and Other Rare Rosenman.
Tracks Include:
Click select links to hear sample audio tracks. Body Wars (1989)1. Body Wars Theme (3:26) 2. Coming to Get You (1:39) 3. Ready Now (1:04) 4. Welcome Home (0:39)
Where Pigeons Go To Die (1990)
Sybil (1976)
Combat! (1962)
Alexander The Great (1964) Also included are 19 minutes of music from the original first-season library of television's landmark war series Combat!, composed and conducted by Rosenman in Rome in 1962; excerpts from Rosenman's Emmy-winning score for the 1976 miniseries Sybil, including an unreleased recording of a song, "I Remember Me," written for the miniseries by Rosenman and lyricists Marilyn and Alan Bergman, and performed by noted vocalist Shelby Flint; and selections from his touching score for one of Michael Landon's final projects, the Emmy-nominated Where Pigeons Go To Die (1990) which starred Art Carney. Rounding out the album is his music for Body Wars, composed in 1989 for a project directed by his friend Leonard Nimoy, with whom he worked on Star Trek IV. Body Wars was a theme-park attraction at Walt Disney's EPCOT Center in Florida; the ride was a journey through the human body that was reminiscent of Fantastic Voyage, which Rosenman had scored in 1966. This remarkable collection, produced by Marilee Bradford, is accompanied by a 16-page booklet containing rare photographs with album notes by Jon Burlingame. Alexander the Great and Other Rare Rosenman is a limited edition of 1000 copies and is available beginning Monday, August 6, only to members of the Society. The price is $20 plus shipping/handling ($5 domestic; $6.50 international). Membership is open to the public; basic annual membership is $50, fully tax-deductible. For sales or for more information, contact the FMS at shop@filmmusicsociety.org. |
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