The Hours (Score)
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Performer: Philip GlassPerformer: Julianne Moore
Performer: Meryl Streep
Performer: Stephen Dillane
Performer: Miranda Richardson
Performer: George Loftus
Performer: Charley Ramm
Performer: Sophie Wyburd
Performer: Lyndsey Marshal
Performer: Linda Bassett
Performer: Christian Coulson
Performer: Michael Culkin
Performer: John C. Reilly
Performer: Jack Rovello
Performer: Toni Collette
Performer: Margo Martindale
Performer: Colin Stinton
Performer: Ed Harris
Performer: Allison Janney
Performer: Claire Danes
Edition: Music CD
Format: Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 2002-12-10
Music Label: Nonesuch
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Free Music Review: Haunting Music
Hit: 5 Stars
When I saw the Hours, I was struck my the music in the film. This CD carries a haunting theme throughout. Each track is similar but not redundant, conveying the same distinctive and urgent mood throughout.
The Hours (Score) Poster
How better to score a movie that takes place in three tangentially related time periods than with music that strives for timelessness? The hallmarks of Philip Glass's minimalism serve The Hours well. The film, based on Michael Cunningham's novel, tells the stories of three women--Virginia Woolf in the early 1920s, a housewife just after World War II, and a book editor in the present--whose days relate in different ways to Woolf's novel Mrs. Dalloway. Yet rather than construct a sonic montage of these three time periods (perhaps some Ravel for Woolf, some Max Steiner for the housewife, some Enya for the editor), Hours producer Scott Rudin turned to Glass, a contemporary-classical composer who has had a substantial side career in film, most notably with Koyaanisqatsi. The familiar Glass sounds--the endlessly layered violins, the static melodies, the glacial rhythms--all lend a consistent aural foundation to a story that moves fluidly back and forth in time. The music is scored for orchestra, string quartet, and piano. Those plentiful strings lend a thick cushion, a triumph of tonal suspension, for the piano part, which Michael Riesman plays coolly, emphasizing what are often single notes separated by thoughtful silences, as well as short sets of scales cascading in slow motion. Not only will these compositional themes be familiar to fans of Glass's work, so too will several of the melodies. Some sections of the score are derived from his albums Glassworks and Solo Piano and from his opera Satyagraha--which, incidentally, involved the stories of three legendary men active in different eras. --Marc WeidenbaumThe superb orchestral music for this powerfully affecting film is by Philip Glass, whose spellbinding 1999 score for Martin Scorcese's Kundun (also on Nonesuch) added an aura of portent and sweep that contributed significantly to the film's impact. The film stars Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, Nicole Kidman & Ed Harris. Slipcase. 2002
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