Bronislaw Kaper's music for The Way West (1967) was just about the last classic Western movie score ever written that was done in a broad, epic style without any sense of irony until John Barry's music for Dances with Wolves appeared two decades later. But Kaper's music comes from an even older tradition, dating to Dimitri Tiomkin's score for Red River (1948) and, in it's use of choral music and folk melodies, to a theatrical tradition decades older than that, and the influence of such figures as Aaron Copland and Roy Harris. The Polish-born Kaper had scored a handful of Westerns in the previous decade and, perhaps recognizing the nature of time, mortality, and public taste, understood that The Way West might well be his last chance to deal with the American West in musical terms. As the composer had no training at the podium, the score is conducted by Andre Previn, in one of his very last appearances as a Hollywood conductor before he moved permanently into the concert hall. The Serendipity Singers' other contribution, ''Mercy McBee,'' is more in the tradition of their standard folk-pop sound, without the sheer power of the title track but with an engaging lyricism and delicacy (in the movie the song comes out appropriately rougher).
発売日：2018/6/22BR>
トラックリスト
1 The Way West 2 Overture (Main Title) 3 Lige Celebrates 4 We're Crossing First 5 Flowers for Mr. Mack 6 I Killed Him (Execution) 7 Water & Billy's Death 8 Mercy MC Bee 9 Buffalos and Indians 10 Becky's Theme 11 One to Crystal City - Tadlock's End 12 Reluctant Mercy 13 Finale
実際に起きたアメリカ開拓史の出来事を著したピュリッツァー受賞の原作を基に、不況から脱するため未開の地オレゴン州へ向かう南部の人々の紆余曲折の旅を描いた西部開拓ドラマのサウンドトラック、再発売。
トラックリスト１９世紀半ば、貧困にあえぐミズーリ州の町。住民の間では、豊かな資源に恵まれていると噂のオレゴンに安住の地を求めようという気運が高まっていた。そして、上院議員のタドロックが音頭を取り、移住へ向けて幌馬車隊が組織される。こうして総勢一千人余りの移住希望者がオレゴン開拓へ出発。だがその道中、インディアンとのトラブルで死者を出し、タドロックも職権濫用で仲間内に亀裂を作るなど、周囲に不穏な空気が拡がっていく…。出演：カーク・ダグラス、ロバート・ミッチャム、リチャード・ウィドマーク、サリー・フィールド。監督：アンドリュー・Ｖ・マクラグレン。1967年米。
Bronislaw Kaper's music for The Way West (1967) was just about the last classic Western movie score ever written that was done in a broad, epic style without any sense of irony until John Barry's music for Dances with Wolves appeared two decades later. But Kaper's music comes from an even older tradition, dating to Dimitri Tiomkin's score for Red River (1948) and, in it's use of choral music and folk melodies, to a theatrical tradition decades older than that, and the influence of such figures as Aaron Copland and Roy Harris. The Polish-born Kaper had scored a handful of Westerns in the previous decade and, perhaps recognizing the nature of time, mortality, and public taste, understood that The Way West might well be his last chance to deal with the American West in musical terms. As the composer had no training at the podium, the score is conducted by Andre Previn, in one of his very last appearances as a Hollywood conductor before he moved permanently into the concert hall. The Serendipity Singers' other contribution, ''Mercy McBee,'' is more in the tradition of their standard folk-pop sound, without the sheer power of the title track but with an engaging lyricism and delicacy (in the movie the song comes out appropriately rougher).
発売日：2018/6/22BR>
1 The Way West
2 Overture (Main Title)
3 Lige Celebrates
4 We're Crossing First
5 Flowers for Mr. Mack
6 I Killed Him (Execution)
7 Water & Billy's Death
8 Mercy MC Bee
9 Buffalos and Indians
10 Becky's Theme
11 One to Crystal City - Tadlock's End
12 Reluctant Mercy
13 Finale