Just in time for the North American premiere of Joss Whedon’s THE AVENGERS, Cinematic Sound is proud to present music from comic book films and TV shows including the Cinematic Sound premiere of music from THE AVENGERS by Alan Silvestri. You will also hear extended suites from THE SHADOW by Jerry Goldsmith, THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN by Trevor Jones, Danny Elfman’s Academy Award-nominated score to MEN IN BLACK, THE X-MEN TRILOGY featuring music by Michael Kamen, John Ottman and John Powell, Alan Silvestri’s powerful score to JUDGE DREDD, unreleased music from SPIDER-MAN 3 by Christopher Young, THE PHANTOM by David Newman and Christopher Drake’s brilliant WONDER WOMAN. We will also be playing a rare concert arrangement of Jerry Goldsmith’s SUPERGIRL suite conducted by Roy Budd and performed by the London Symphony Orchestra. During the course of the program, you will also hear short selections from SUPERMAN by John Williams, THE FLASH by Danny Elfman, FANTASTIC FOUR by John Ottman, BATMAN: GOTHAM KNIGHT by Christopher Drake, Robert J. Kral and Kevin Manthei, Bear McCreary’s THE CAPE as well as many others.
PLAYLIST
PART I • SUPERMAN: THE MOVIE (Williams) 0:00 • SUPERGIRL (Goldsmith) 5:45 • THE SHADOW (Goldsmith) 16:21 • THE FLASH (Elfman) 26:10 • MEN IN BLACK (Elfman) 27:43 • IRON MAN 2 (Debney) 44:03 • THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN (Jones) 45:32
PART II • FANTASTIC FOUR (Ottman) 0:00 • THE X-MEN TRILOGY: X-MEN – X2: X-MEN UNITED – X-MEN: THE LAST STAND (Kamen / Ottman / Powell) 4:19 • JUDGE DREDD TRAILER (Goldsmith) 32:40 • JUDGE DREDD (Silvestri) 32:40 • UNBREAKABLE (Howard) 51:44 • SPIDER-MAN 3 (Young) 54:19
PART III • THE CAPE (McCreary) 0:00 • THE PHANTOM (Newman) 2:30 • BATMAN: GOTHAM KNIGHT (Drake / Kral / Manthei) 22:03 • WONDER WOMAN (Drake) 27:03 • CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER (Silvestri) 43:56 • THE AVENGERS (Silvestri) 46:28
Ah, you beat me to the idea. But where’s Danny Elfman’s Batman?
Overall, a great show.
I wanted to play something from a rather unknown Batman film so I chose Drake/Kral/Manthei’s BATMAN: GOTHAM KNIGHT instead.
where’s The Crow ??!!!
I don’t know? Do you know where it is? 😛 Actually, I did give it serious consideration but I didn’t know which score to replace it with.
Really good to hear the Roy Budd / LSO Supergirl performance for the first time. The horns were recorded horribly, a perfect example of very bad mic placement.
It does sound horrible. The trumpets are in the wrong channel and everything sounds so pinched. If I didn’t tell you would wouldn’t know that the LSO was performing that particular piece. Terrible but a great arrangement.
This is a great idea for a show, and you pulled it together masterfully (no surprise there, but still true!).
I think Williams’ SUPERMAN march is just about the most perfect piece of film music ever composed. It never, ever fails to give me goose bumps and to stir up my sense of wonder. Perfect choice to lead of this episode! (And I actually thought that “Supergirl” suite wasn’t such a bad recording. I never knew, actually, that Goldsmith was the first choice to score “Superman,” but it makes all kinds of sense. In some parallel universe, film music history looks – or, rather, sounds – very different…!)
Is it just me, or does that first X-Men cue in hour 2 start off with more than a little “Knight Rider” vibe? What is your opinion of the “X-Men: First Class” score? I guess it’s not the most novel or varied score (it’s no Superman), but I sure do like that main theme in the training montage, the end credits, etc. I’ve enjoyed it on my mp3 player.
I’m thrilled by the inclusion of Young’s Spider-Man 3. It’s a great score with a lot to love, and it’s fascinating how Young makes the series his own within Elfman’s musical landscape.
It’s atrocious that this score has never been officially released. That love theme alone is worth the price of admission in my book.
I only wish you were also able to include the touching music that plays during Sandman’s confession and a key death at the end of the film. That’s a heartbreaker.
Young’s score is superb! Hopefully one day we get an official release. Glad you enjoyed the show and thank you for taking the time to write!