June 13, 2008

BRUCE BROUGHTON HONORARY PRESIDENT
IV INTERNATIONAL FILM MUSIC CONFERENCE IN ÚBEDA, SPAIN

Bruce Broughton is Honorary President of this year's Úbeda Film Music Conference which will once again gather a stellar cast of guests in one of Spain's most distinctive World Heritage sites.

From July 9-13, the International Film Music Conference in the south of Spain is preparing an unforgettable film music conference. Composers Patrick Doyle, Alberto Iglesias, Roque Baños, Joel McNeely, John Scott, Fernando Velázquez and director J.A. Bayona (The Orphanage), join Bruce Broughton and Artistic Director Robert Townson, together for the first time for another historic event!

Fascinating seminars from all the guests, recitals, film music workshops, CD signing sessions, screenings and much more fill the days leading up to the spectacular concert at the XVI century courtyard of the beautiful Hospital de Santiago.

Organized by The BSOSpirit Society, it has the support of the City Hall of Úbeda and other sponsors. To this date, the symposium has become one of the most memorable gatherings for film music enthusiasts around the world.

As with the previous years, hundreds of fans, composers and journalists are expected to gather in Úbeda this summer to enjoy the many panel discussions scheduled, as well as the highlight symphonic concert of film music selections.

To learn more about the Conference and register: http://congreso.bsospirit.com

For more information, please contact Lisa Edmondson.

May 30, 2008

INTRADA ANNOUNCES PREMIERE RELEASE OF "THE ICE PIRATES"

Somewhere between Star Wars and Spaceballs there's The Ice Pirates, a satirical sci-fi adventure/love story with a cast as quirky as it is stellar—Anjelica Houston shares costar credit with Bruce Vilanch!

And Bruce Broughton's score adroitly accompanies this wild ride with pumped-up '80s rock percussion and keyboard, a hauntingly melodic electronic love theme, and compelling action sequences with brass and woodwinds. It's a tour-de-force on a limited budget—and now it's a limited release: only 3,000 copies available.

Produced by Douglass Fake of Intrada from the composer's personal elements (the studio masters have long-since vanished), the complete chronological score is presented in stereo sound, and includes in the liner notes new comments by Bruce Broughton.

For more details, to hear audio samples from the CD, or to purchase, please visit the Screen Archives website.

For more information, please contact Lisa Edmondson.

May 16, 2008

BRUCE'S BACK YARD

A casual sit-down with Film Score Monthly

For anyone who hasn't had the pleasure of listening to Bruce Broughton speak, it's well worth the small subscription fee to Film Score Monthly to partake. How Broughton came to be a composer—which was not what he had set out to be, how he got his chops working in television, and how he came to be a master of his craft, are among the many valuable topics covered in this fluid and engaging series of conversations that took place in Bruce's own back yard.

This is the first installment of a three-issue, video-interview series by Tim Curran and Saul Pincus. Enjoy!

April 30, 2008

A MUST-READ—BAMBI II

"The Great Prince of Bambi II's Music," as he is heralded, discusses the musical history of the 1942 classic through the making of the contemporary "midquel" in an interview by Jérémie Noyer for Animated Views.

March 27, 2008 Composer Bruce Broughton will be teaching an Orchestration seminar at UCLA during the Spring 2008 semester beginning in April. A three-hour weekly class, the seminar will cover advanced orchestration for large ensembles, as well as for specific combinations, and will include analysis of orchestral literature drawn from both concert and commercial sources. The program is classified as a special topic in composition and theory. Not a general education class, enrollment is limited to music graduate students.

For more information, please contact Lisa Edmondson.

March 26, 2008

INTRADA ANNOUNCES RELEASE OF "THIS GIRL FOR HIRE"

Intrada's latest Signature Edition release features Bruce Broughton's score to the 1983 TV-movie This Girl for Hire. Boasting an all star supporting cast, including Jose Ferrer, Celeste Holm, Scott Brady, Howard Duff, Roddy McDowall, and Bess Armstrong in the lead, the film spoofed the 1940s film noir private eye genre. Two elements of the film became the focus for Broughton's score – the 1940s atmosphere of the story and the sexy, seductive appearance of the main character (although the character in the movie was a bit klutzy, Broughton chose to play her musically straight). "The main theme was composed in a harmonically rich melodic style, the sort associated with film themes from the 40s," comments Broughton. "The score itself was performed by a uniquely specific combination of musicians. The right instrumental combination is often the path to the right dramatic score. The overall sound of the orchestra is feminine, sophisticated, colorful, and energetic." But it's not all smoky, 40s detective noir, for it has its share of suspense and action music, in the familiar style that makes Bruce Broughton a composer everyone cherishes.

This small gem from Bruce Broughton's wealthy body of work comes courtesy of MGM, from the 1/4" stereo mixes in the composer's own collection, preserved in perfect sound. This release is limited to 1000 copies.

INTRADA Signature Editions ISE 1020
Composed and Conducted by BRUCE BROUGHTON
IN STOCK NOW

For more details, to hear audio samples from the CD, or to purchase, please visit the Intrada website.

For more information, please contact Lisa Edmondson.

February 20, 2008

PACIFIC SERENADES CONTINUES 22ND SEASON WITH WORLD PREMIERE OF NEW WORK FOR VIOLIN AND PIANO BY VERSATILE COMPOSER BRUCE BROUGHTON

Saturday, March 1, 8 pm, at a private home in Brentwood
Sunday, March 2, 4 pm, at The Neighborhood Church in Pasadena
Tuesday, March 4, 8 pm, at The UCLA Faculty Center

Pacific Serenades, one of the West Coast's leading chamber ensembles, continues its 22nd season with its 88th world premiere, Bruce Broughton's Sonata for Violin and Piano. Broughton wrote the piece for his wife, violinist Belinda Broughton, who performs it with pianist Joanne Pearce Martin in concerts on March 1, 2 and 4.

Pacific Serenades founder and artistic director Mark Carlson describes the new work by multiple Emmy winner and Grammy and Oscar nominee Bruce Broughton as rousing in the fast movements, with a lyrical and moving slow movement. "It displays perfectly Belinda's virtuosic skills," he said.

In addition to the Broughton world premiere, the concert program, titled "Mavericks and Magicians," features Debussy's Sonata for cello and piano (1915), one of the last three pieces he wrote, and Mendelssohn's rarely performed Piano Trio in C minor, Op. 66, featuring cellist David Speltz with Belinda Broughton and Joanne Pearce Martin.

Pacific Serenades, led by Founder and Artistic Director Mark Carlson, presents four world premieres during its 2008 season. By the end of the season, the ensemble will have commissioned and presented 90 world premieres by 48 different composers since its inception, more than any other organization of its kind in the country.

Pacific Serenades concerts are supported in part by the Los Angeles County Arts Commission and by The James Irvine Foundation, Los Angeles Center Studios and Keyboard Concepts.

Tickets are $55 (home concert) and $32 (Neighborhood Church and UCLA Faculty Center concerts). Student rush tickets are available for $5 (at the door only) for programs held at the Neighborhood Church in Pasadena and the UCLA Faculty Center. To purchase tickets, more information, or to request a brochure, call (213) 534-3434 or visit the Pacific Serenades website.

Additionally, Mr. Broughton will be promoting the Pacific Serenades concerts in a series of upcoming radio interviews:

KCSN 88.5 FM—"Arts & Roots Forum," hosted by Martin Perlich
Monday, February 25, 4 p.m. (live)

KUSC 91.5 FM—"Evening Concert," hosted by Jim Svejda
Thursday, February 28, 10:00 p.m.

KUSC 91.5 FM—"Arts Alive"
Saturday, February 23, 8 a.m. and 5 p.m.

For more information, please contact Lisa Edmondson.

February 14, 2008

INTRADA ANNOUNCES LIMITED RELEASE OF "THE BLUE AND THE GRAY"

1982 was a turning point for composer Bruce Broughton. Prior to 1982 he had delivered world class compositions for such TV series as Hawaii 5-0, Buck Rogers, Dallas, and the Emmy-nominated TV movie Killjoy. The Blue & the Gray heralded Broughton from working in television, to working in motion pictures when he made the leap to the big screen just the following year. Miniseries were enjoying a surge in popularity and one inside source claimed that The Blue & the Gray was "the most ambitions project [CBS] had undertaken."

While the epic Civil War story touches upon spectacle and grand military strategy, most of story is told from viewpoint of the lowly perspective of ordinary men and women. Broughton's approach was to highlight the personal sense of the characters as they experience the war. The main theme and the most of the secondary themes are built, in Broughton's words, "around more of a traditional 19th century song style, not unlike Stephen Foster or George F. Root, two popular song writers of the time." The main title is big, sweeping and grand, featuring full orchestra and lays out the main theme that is heard in many guises throughout the lengthy score. The score is in many ways a precursor to SILVERADO, with action and adventure coming through in key moments. For the more personal moments, focusing on these farm men and women, Broughton augments the orchestra with folk instruments like guitar, fiddle, harmonica, Jew's harp and dulcimer. The cumulative effect is to give the score a powerful element of rural authenticity.

The score to THE BLUE AND THE GRAY is done with the cooperation of Sony Pictures and is presented complete on a 2-CD set from the original stereo session masters. This release is limited to 2000 albums.

INTRADA Special Collection – Volume 57
Composed and Conducted by BRUCE BROUGHTON
IN STOCK NOW

For more details, to hear audio samples from the CD, or to purchase, please visit the Intrada website.

For more information, please contact Lisa Edmondson.

January 23, 2008

BRUCE BROUGHTON "IN RESIDENCE" AT UNLV

Film Scoring Symposium in Las Vegas will give students first-hand experience

From January 31 – February 3, 2008, the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, will host the second edition of N.E.O.N. (Nevada Encounters of New Music), a symposium and festival for composers that includes concerts, lectures, private lessons with featured faculty members, and master classes. The intensive four-day program combines active learning with concentrated exposure to new music and its conception, creation, and construction.

Bruce Broughton is a valuable addition to this year's faculty panel, bringing a prolific, Oscar- and Emmy-award winning career in film and television—as well as the concert stage—to UNLV's College of Fine Arts' Music Department. Eight select students will have the opportunity to receive private lessons by the composer, who will be giving seminars both on his own music and on the craft of writing for film and television.

Mr. Broughton will also participate in a roundtable discussion on new music, attend and supervise the rehearsals and final concert of his students' music—including introducing their piece to the audience—and serve on the composition competition jury, which will determine the eight students whose works will be included in the program of four concerts. Two of the participating eight will be awarded commissions.

View the PDF (1.5MB) for more information on this upcoming event.

For more information, please contact Lisa Edmondson.

January 20, 2008

SPECTACULAR SCENES SURROUND EPCOT AUDIENCES IN CANADIAN FILM

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla.—Walt Disney World guests get a glimpse of today's Canada in a newly enhanced 14-minute motion picture, scored by award-winning composer Bruce Broughton, and presented in Circle-Vision 360° as a major feature, of the Canada pavilion in Epcot World Showcase.

Titled "O Canada!," the film includes spectacular scenes that highlight Canada's natural beauty, cosmopolitan cities and diverse people who call Canada home. In addition to new, updated scenes, the film is hosted by Canadian actor Martin Short.

Walt Disney Imagineers collaborated with the Canadian Tourism Commission to update the film, including new orchestration and images. "Our goal was to strike the right balance between the vibrant cosmopolitan cities and the natural beauty that characterize Canada," according to Imagineer David Katzman. "We look forward to showcasing all its beauty and splendor to guests visiting the Canada pavilion at Epcot".

Circle-Vision 360° is a film technique that uses nine cameras for projection onto nine large screens arranged in a circle, usually above head level. By using an odd number of screens, and a small space between them, a projector may be placed in each gap, projecting across the space to a screen.

The motion picture takes guests from the far eastern shores of New Brunswick's Bay of Fundy by railroad to the western beauty and tranquility of Butchart Gardens in British Columbia. Canada's natural beauty is majestically displayed throughout the film, including new and classic scenes from the 800-year-old redwood trees of Cathedral Grove to the astounding splendor of Horseshoe Falls to the snowy Mountains of Kananaskis Valley.

For more information, please contact Lisa Edmondson.

December 18, 2007

ASCAP COMPOSERS DETAIL THE FILM SCORING PROCESS AT AMPAS SEMINARS

Film Scoring Symposium in Las Vegas will give students first-hand experience

Read the ASCAP article...

December 6, 2007

EPCOT'S SPACESHIP EARTH TO REOPEN MID-DECEMBER

[An excerpt from OrlandoSentinel.com]

by Christopher Boyd | Jason Garcia and Scott Powers, Sentinel Staff Writers

Epcot's Spaceship Earth ride is expected to reopen in mid-December for sneak previews with a new story overlay, new technology and a whole new soundtrack -- created by 10-time Emmy Award-winning composer Bruce Broughton, a 63-piece orchestra and a 24-voice choir.

Walt Disney Imagineering announced late last week that Broughton's music has been fitted to each scene in the attraction's storyline, which follows the history of human innovation from one generation to the next, from prehistoric times to the 21st century.

The ride was closed earlier this year as the entire system also has been updated with new show scenes, lighting, costumes, set decorations, interactive features for riders and a new narrator, Academy Award-winning actress Judi Dench.

For the musical score, each scene was infused with styles and instruments appropriate to the time period.

"To have that score transition smoothly as vehicles travel from one time period to the next is extremely difficult," said Walt Disney Imagineering show producer Bob Zalk. "The first time we rode through the attraction accompanied by that music, we were amazed."

Read the entire article...

For more information, please contact Lisa Edmondson.

October 7, 2007

INTRADA ANNOUNCES LIMITED RELEASE OF "HARRY AND THE HENDERSONS"

The original soundtrack of the charming 1987 "Bigfoot" comedy, starring John Lithgow, Melinda Dillon, and Don Ameche, is now available for purchase in a special, limited-edition release that features Bruce Broughton conducting one of his biggest scores for a large orchestra (which is only fitting, given the size of the Henderson's house guest).

Action, warmth, humor, and suspense are all richly portrayed in a rousing score that culminates in the gentle and melodic "Goodbyes." Also included is "Love Lives On," a song written by Bruce Broughton and Barry Mann, and sung by Joe Cocker; as well as Broughton's original but unused end-credits.

Mastered from original session elements, and featuring all the score tracks from the original MCA label LP, along with 40 additional minutes of previously unreleased music, this is definitely one for the collection--paricularly as there are only 3000 copies available.

For more details, to hear audio samples from the CD, or to purchase, please visit the Screen Archives website.

For more information, please contact Lisa Edmondson.

September 27, 2007

INTRADA ANNOUNCES SPECIAL LIMITED RELEASE OF "THE MONSTER SQUAD"

Composer Bruce Broughton goes all out on this original soundtrack of the Fred Dekker homage to classic horror films. Featuring full orchestra—conducted by Broughton—a big symphonic sound fully revives the monsters of films past (Dracula, Frankenstein, the Mummy, et. al). Thunderous action sequences underscore the story's dramatic edge, while a chorus melodically weaves in the tender moments that epitomize the genre.

This long-awaited CD is limited to 3000 copies and is thanks in no small part to the enduring efforts of Paramount Pictures, Intrada, Fred Dekker, and numerous others, and the result is a sensational sound forged from the original stereo elements.

THE MONSTER SQUAD
Intrada Special Collection Volume 50
Date: 1987
Tracks: 22
Time: 57:22

For more details, to hear audio samples from the CD, or to purchase, please visit the INTRADA website.

For more information, please contact Lisa Edmondson.

August 9, 2007

2007 ÚBEDA FILM MUSIC CONFERENCE

A resounding success with Broughton named 2008 Honorary President

Broughton conducting Silverado at the Úbeda Film Music Conference Photo by Dan Goldwasser

A standing ovation by an enthusiastic crowd of film music fans brought Spain's most prestigious annual film music gathering to an exciting finale on July 22nd. For a third year in a row, the International Film Music Conference – City of Úbeda brought together an impressive line-up of international composers and other distinguished guests from the film music industry to enjoy a host of film music activities and events. Many panel discussions, as well as an extraordinary film music concert brought together an astounding and international array of talent. In attendance at this year's conference were composers Bruce Broughton (Silverado), John Powell (The Bourne Ultimatum), John Debney (Dreamer), David Arnold (Casino Royale), John Scott (Greystoke) and Roque Baños (The Machinist). A full symphonic orchestra with choir performed the final concert of works by the visiting composers under a crescent moon in a sixteenth-century hospital courtyard.

At the conclusion of the concert, outgoing Honorary President John Debney announced the selection of ten-time Emmy-winning composer Bruce Broughton, board member of ASCAP and a governor of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, to be his successor as the 2008 Úbeda Film Music Conference Honorary President.

The Third Annual International Film Music Conference was celebrated in the City of Úbeda, Spain from July 19-22, 2007. Organized by The BSOSpirit Society, the symposium has quickly become one of the most important gatherings for film music enthusiasts around the world.

Visit the official website: http://congreso.bsospirit.com/

August 7, 2007

BRUCE BROUGHTON JOINS IN ACADEMY TRIBUTE TO LEGENDARY FILM COMPOSER MIKLÓS RÓZSA

On August 17th, the Motion Picture Academy will begin a three-day tribute to Miklós Rózsa, who received 17 Academy Award nominations over a career that spanned nearly five decades. He won Oscars for his scores to Spellbound, A Double Life, and Ben-Hur.

The centenary celebration, hosted by journalist/historian Jon Burlingame, will feature film clips and an onstage panel discussion with film historian Rudy Behlmer; Academy Music Branch Governor and composer Bruce Broughton; and Juliet Rózsa, daughter of the composer.

Said Broughton to Los Angeles Times Staff Writer Susan King: "Rózsa was one of those guys who was a substantial composer. When he went into film music, apparently he used as much invention as he would in any kind of music. He had such a substantial craft and technique that it came out in very high quality."

The Centenary celebration begins at 7:30pm at the Samuel Goldwyn Theatre (8949 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills) and continues through the weekend at the Linwood Dunn Theatre. Tickets are available to the general public, and can be purchased online for $5 at www.oscars.com

For more information, please visit the Academy web site or call (310) 247-3600.

April 2, 2007

BRAMWELL TOVEY CONDUCTS BROUGHTON'S "MASTERS OF SPACE AND TIME"

Conductor Bramwell Tovey, Artistic Director of the National Youth Brass Band of Great Britain, will be performing Bruce Broughton's Masters of Space and Time, at the final concert of the Easter Course at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, England on Saturday, April 7.

Masters of Space and Time was a joint commission by the American Brass Band Association and the British Open Brass Band Championship in 2001.

Tovey, conductor of the Vancouver Symphony, has also regularly led a number of other major ensembles throughout Canada, the United States, and Europe – including the New York Philharmonic, the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra.

April 2, 2007

BRUCE BROUGHTON'S FILM SCORING DIALOGS, UCLA EXTENSION

by Bob Safir

UCLA Extension offered a class on March 24, 2007 called "Film Scoring Dialogs, with Bruce Broughton." Bruce has a ton of credits that span both film and television, not to mention theme park rides. He has the experience of old school, traditional orchestration, combined with the awareness of new school, do-it-on-the-computer, film music. He is professional in every sense of the word, and being his student for one Saturday in March was truly a pleasure.

Bruce started out by saying that the class went from noon to 5 p.m. and he didn't see how anyone could talk for five straight hours on this topic. As it turned out, five hours was not nearly enough.

While many emerging composers are constantly looking for the ultimate educational reward – the topic of "how to find work" – Bruce's class revolved more around the truly essential part of the process – the music.

He covered a variety of topics and mentioned a few gems. Writer's block – something that everyone experiences one time or another – is simply fear. He went through the internal mental process that occurs with writer's block, and it sounded like my own inner voice when writer's block happens to me. The remedy? Simple: you don't have time for writer's block. Put some music, no matter what it is, in the score as a placeholder...you can always change it later.

Bruce went on to say that as a composer, you must keep writing. Keep writing all the time. And when you're done with that, keep writing. And then keep writing.

I was fascinated to hear that when Bruce gets a writing assignment, he starts off by just thinking about what the music should be like. He then gets his best ideas in, well, for lack of a better word, the twilight zone...that strange little hallway between being asleep and awake. It was interesting to me because I have experienced the same thing from time to time. Once, I wrote an entire song (with lyrics) without an instrument, hanging out somewhere in the twilight zone.

Bruce recounted that Jerry Goldsmith wrote a theme for each and every film he worked on, even though it was likely he wouldn't use it. It was a repository for all of his ideas – he extracted his material from the root theme. What a great idea.

Bernard Hermann, he said, often talked about the color – or timbre – of the music. He would design unusual orchestrations that did not necessarily follow the layout of a typical orchestra. If there were to be ten piccolos, then so be it.

Broughton said that John Williams is likely most responsible for the large orchestrations we have today. In his Star Wars scores, he doubles many of the parts so that they can cut through the sound effects. (Naturally, this would be in places in which there was no dialog.) When you're John Williams, you've earned the right to dominate the sound effects track if that's what you want to do. (Don't try this unless you're convinced you have the same clout as John Williams.)

Bruce went on to say that it's not the idea, it's what you do with it. A perfect illustration of this is Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. Those first four notes are a sleeper, but what he does with those notes after that is pure genius.

Discussing the rhythm of the scene is something I have heard discussed in several different venues, and Bruce talked about this as well as the details of stop watches, click tracks, and frames per beat.

Right now, he states, sound effects and dialog rule. Bruce is also of the opinion that there is simply too much music in film scores today.

One of the highlights of the day was listening to his film music while looking over the scores that he handed out. Equally enlightening was watching a scene without the music first and then seeing what he did with it. And boy was he right about this: when there is no music, the scene seems to drag on and on and on.

Many other topics were discussed and the fifth hour, usually reserved for Q&A, was eaten up by more engaging stories from Bruce Broughton. This was a day well spent, and if you ever get the opportunity to sit in on his class, it comes highly recommended...just like I highly recommend a book by a good friend of his, Richard Bellis' "The Emerging Film Composer." Both of these experienced film composers have a ton of valuable lessons to teach us.

November 1, 2006

INTRADA ANNOUNCES RELEASE OF TWO ELOISE MOVIES

Based on the charming children's books by Kay Thompson and featuring the voice talents of Julie Andrews and Sofia Vassilieva, the two Eloise movies, Eloise at the Plaza and Eloise at Christmastime both premiered on "The Wonderful World of Disney"

Now their delightful scores, composed by Bruce Broughton, who received an Emmy Award for Eloise at Christmastime, can be enjoyed in a special 2-CD set that brings to life the frenetic, hurmorous, colorful, tender and dramatic moods of the Eloise stories, through musical vignettes, jaunty sax themes, and full orchestra.

This Signature Edition is limited to 1200 copies and includes illustrations by Hilary Knight and notes by director Kevin Lima.

ELOISE AT THE PLAZA / ELOISE AT CHRISTMASTIME
Intrada Signature Edition ISE1009
Tracks: 65
Time: 101:30
Visit Intrada for more information or to purchase.

For more information, please contact Lisa Edmondson.

November 1, 2006

BROUGHTON'S SALOON MUSIC FEATURED ON NEW CD

Bruce Broughton's Saloon Music for Bb Cornet and Pit Orchestra is in excellent company on premiere studio trumpet player Malcolm McNab's debut solo CD, EXQUISITE, where Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto, Bach's Concerto for 2 Violins, and Frank Zappa's BeBop Tango are performed in accompaniment with Altadena Pro Musica under the direction of producer/engineer/conductor Gary Grant. Broughton's Saloon Music was the ony work specially commissioned for this CD, and which was also conducted by the composer.

EXQUISITE is presented by Kinnell House Records, and is available for purchase through Malcolm McNab's Official Website. Visit Broughton's Concert Work page to hear samples of Saloon Music.

For more information, please contact Lisa Edmondson.

July 11, 2006

BRUCE BROUGHTON NOMINATED (AGAIN) FOR AN EMMY

Bruce Broughton, ten-time Emmy winner, received his 23rd Emmy nomination for the score to The Dive from Clausenęs Pier in the category of Outstanding Music Composition for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special (Dramatic Underscore).

The Dive from Clausenęs Pier, a Lifetime original movie adapted from the novel by Ann Packer, was directed by Harry Winer and starred Michelle Trachtenberg. This was the fourth joint effort for Winer and Broughton, whose previous collaborations included House Arrest, Jeremiah and Damaged Care. The nomination follows three consecutive Emmy wins for Broughton.

For more information, please contact Lisa Edmondson.

June 18, 2006

"TOMBSTONE" SOUNDTRACK RELEASED BY INTRADA RECORDS

Bruce Broughton's score for Tombstone (1993), starring Kurt Russell and Val Kilmer, has been re-released in a special 2-CD edition by Intrada Records.

Composer Bruce Broughton on his approach to the score: "The music to Tombstone is not particularly "western," in that the orchestration depends not at all on the typical western instruments, such as the guitar and harmonica. It relies, in fact, on instruments of ethnic color, like the Hungarian cimbalom, the Irish tin whistle and bhodran, and the French contrabass sarrusophone. The brass section includes, along with tenor and bass trombones, the more massive contrabass trombone. Much of this score reminds me of what I once heard Bernard Herrmann tell a studio orchestra – 'The highest note here is the middle C.'" This powerful dramatic work is performed in stunning detail by the Sinfonia of London.

For this special 2-CD release of Tombstone, INTRADA presents the complete score on Disc 1, digitally remastered and including Jerry Goldsmith's music for the Cinergi logo, which was composed to debut with Tombstone's theatrical release and was conducted by Broughton at the Tombstone sessions. Disc 2 includes – as a bonus – alternate cues and extended source cues heard in the film.

This Special Collection is available now.

SILVERADO [COMPLETE SOUNDTRACK]
Intrada Special Collection – MAF 7096
Tracks: 36
Time: 86:56
Please visit the INTRADA website for more details or to purchase.

For more information, please contact Lisa Edmondson.