Dmitri Tiomkin - The Alamo (1960)
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Artist: Dmitri TiomkinEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language); Spanish (Original Language)
Format: Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 1995-03-14
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- Overture
- Main Title/Legend Of The Alamo/Sam Houston
- Davy Crockett And The Tennesseans
- Cantina Music
- Davy Crockett's Speech ('Republic Is One Of Those Words...')
- Love scene
- Crockett And The Tennesesseans Enter The Alamo
- The Mexicans Arrive
- Intermission
- Entr' acte
- Tennessee Babe
- Here's To The Ladies
- Raid For Cattle
- Santa Anna
- Crossing The Line
- The Green Leaves Of Summer
- Charge Of Santa Anna/Death Of Davy Crockett/Teh Final Assault
- Finale
- Exit Music
- Davy Crockett And Flaca ('I'm Gonna Tell You Something, Flaca...')
- Alternate Ending: The Eyes Of Texas Are Upon You
- Ballad Of The Alamo
- The Green Leaves Of Summer
Free Music Notes for The Alamo (1960)
Free Music Review: THIS is "THE ALAMO"to remember
Hit: 5 Stars
Recently the Disney company inflicted upon the viewing public a revisionist version of "The Alamo"..It was released in April after being yanked from a christmas day opening ..That film was among the worst "Alamo"films ever made,and,adding to the garbage seen on-screen the film was saddled with a minamalist "celtic"yanni-type score by Carter Burwell...This version of "The Alamo"starring John Wyane works well as mythology,and boasts one of Dimitri Tiomkin's best ever fully symphonic scores..
What can one say when one compares the two?In the John Wyane version,history is side-tracked in favor of entertainment,and the result is marvelous.A lot of action,larger-than-life charecters,and robust,coplanesque "western"flavored music...No wonder the film was nominated for so many awards.
In the recent version Billy Bob Thornton replaces John Wyane as Davey Crockett,and instead of getting an all-american hero we get an opportunist who has come to Texas thinking that the revolution was already over,and that as a former congressman,he might renew his political career as a big shot in the new Texas republic..Worse,the revisionist weenies who wrote the script chose to ignore every account that had davey crockett dying an heroic death in favor of the one,MEXICAN(and therefore biased)account that branded crockett one tiny step up from a craven coward...No wonder the music used in this fiasco was not only minamalist,but poorly written to boot.
Tiomkin's music,on the other hand,celebrates heroic men and heroic deeds.It it tuneful,melodic,memorable,and very "american"...It is the kind of music one associates with an"epic"motion picture.Burwell,writing to induce sleep,gives a murky score devoid of any interest..
In the John Wyane version,and contrary to historical fact,the final battle is fought in broad daylight.The sequence is long and exciting,and Tiomkin gives us an exciting sequence of music..In the recent fiasco the producers give us an historical rendering of that final battle,fought in almost total darkness,and Burwell gives us a dirge-like monotone that is more suitable for a funeral service that an epic life and death battle.
Buy this album...It is one of the great scores.Skip the Burwell flapdoodle...Tiomkin's score has been in-print and available for over 40 years,a testament to it's greatness.Burwell's score will go out of print soon,if it has not done so already,and it will stay out of print,a testament to it's basic unsuitability both as a score for a would-be adventure film,and it's general grade zee quality.
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