Quartet Records, in collaboration with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, presents the premiere release of Elmer Bernstein’s charming score for the bittersweet high-school comedy CLASS (1983), directed by Lewis John Carlino and starring Jacqueline Bisset, Rob Lowe, Andrew McCarthy, John Cusack and Cliff Robertson.
The film is about Jonathan (McCarthy) who goes to college and befriends Skip (Lowe), his roommate. The relationship with Skip proves very useful in matters of love, an area where the young student is lacking. His first attempts are a resounding failure, but then he meets Ellen (Bisset), a woman twenty years his senior. At first everything goes very well, but one day she disappears. When he finds her again, he discovers that she’s Skip’s mom.
Elmer Bernstein was no stranger to student comedies in the early 1980s, thanks to his collaborations with John Landis and Ivan Reitman, although CLASS is, rather, a romantic comedy. His score is a sheer delight, providing a sophisticated component to the film. The music is descriptive, romantic and funny, with a powerful main theme that is pure Bernstein.
With the elements long gone, assembling this album was a challenge, but working from recently located original mono ?” tapes and an incomplete set of 24 multi-track stereo elements, the music is finally being released?forty-two years after its recording. The CD contains the main score presentation and additional source music and alternates, all from surviving stereo and mono tracks. This collection has been produced, mixed and mastered by Chris Malone. The full color package includes an essay by film music writer Jeff Bond.
ジャクリーン・ビセット、ロブ・ロウ、アンドリュー・マッカーシー、ジョン・キューザック、クリフ・ロバートソン出演、ルイス・ジョン・カルリーノ監督によるほろ苦い学園コメディ『恋のスクランブル』（1983年）のオリジナル・サウンドトラック。エルマー・バーンスタインの魅力的なスコアが世界初リリース！
トラックリストこの映画は、大学に進学したジョナサン（マッカーシー）がルームメイトのスキップ（ロウ）と親しくなる話だ。スキップとの関係は、若い学生には欠けている分野である恋愛問題で非常に役に立つ。最初の試みは大失敗だったが、20歳年上の女性エレン（ビセット）と出会う。最初はすべてがうまくいっていたが、ある日彼女は姿を消してしまう。再び彼女を見つけたとき、彼は彼女がスキップの母親であることを知る。
エルマー・バーンスタインは、ジョン・ランディスやアイヴァン・ライトマンとのコラボレーションのおかげで、1980年代前半の学園コメディにはお馴染みでした。彼の音楽は実に楽しく、映画に洗練された要素を提供しています。音楽は描写力に富み、ロマンチックで可笑しく、メインテーマは力強く、純粋なバーンスタインそのものです。
しかし、最近発見されたオリジナルのモノラル1/4インチ・テープと、マルチトラック・ステレオ24曲の未完成なエレメントから、録音から42年を経て、ようやくこの音楽がリリースされることになった。
このCDには、現存するステレオとモノラルのトラックから、メイン・スコアと追加音源、別バージョンが収録。フルカラーのパッケージには、映画音楽ライターのジェフ・ボンドによるエッセイも収録されています。
限定1000枚。
Quartet Records, in collaboration with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, presents the premiere release of Elmer Bernstein’s charming score for the bittersweet high-school comedy CLASS (1983), directed by Lewis John Carlino and starring Jacqueline Bisset, Rob Lowe, Andrew McCarthy, John Cusack and Cliff Robertson.
The film is about Jonathan (McCarthy) who goes to college and befriends Skip (Lowe), his roommate. The relationship with Skip proves very useful in matters of love, an area where the young student is lacking. His first attempts are a resounding failure, but then he meets Ellen (Bisset), a woman twenty years his senior. At first everything goes very well, but one day she disappears. When he finds her again, he discovers that she’s Skip’s mom.
Elmer Bernstein was no stranger to student comedies in the early 1980s, thanks to his collaborations with John Landis and Ivan Reitman, although CLASS is, rather, a romantic comedy. His score is a sheer delight, providing a sophisticated component to the film. The music is descriptive, romantic and funny, with a powerful main theme that is pure Bernstein.
With the elements long gone, assembling this album was a challenge, but working from recently located original mono ?” tapes and an incomplete set of 24 multi-track stereo elements, the music is finally being released?forty-two years after its recording. The CD contains the main score presentation and additional source music and alternates, all from surviving stereo and mono tracks. This collection has been produced, mixed and mastered by Chris Malone. The full color package includes an essay by film music writer Jeff Bond.
1. Theme From Class 2:50
2. Main Title* 1:37
3. The Boys* 1:49
4. Truth* 0:59
5. Committee* 1:05
6. Chicago* 1:03
7. The Animal* 0:40
8. Flowers* 1:58
9. New York* 1:53
10. Split 1:39
11. Attempt 0:56
12. Reconciliation / End Titles 4:22
Source Music
13. Car Radio 1:39
14. Eats Parsley 2:39
15. Flight Of The Bumblebee And Can-Can 1:56
16. A Mighty Fortress Is Our God (Martin Luther)* 0:49
17. Second Bar Piece* 3:48
Bonus Tracks
18. Committee (Alternate 1) 1:11
19. Reconciliation (Alternate 1) 1:08
20. Reconciliation (Alternate 2) 0:39
21. Meeting Mrs. Burroughs 0:38
22. Behave Like A Burroughs 1:01
23. Special Investigator 1:56
24. Drug Flush 0:56
25. Commitee (Alternate 2) 1:30
26. Main Title (Alternate) 1:53
All tracks stereo, except * mono