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score/soundtrack

posted 17 years ago by mariasarasota
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I'm looking for information about the score that accompanied the version of The General that played on TCM recently. It was brilliant and stunning and I want to purchase a copy with that soundtrack. The one I purchased through the link on the TCM website has a nice-enough score, but not the one I want.

Does anyone know the identity of the composer and where I can purchase that version? It has lots of percussion, it's extremely inventive and in my opinion, dang-near perfectly suited to the film. Keaton would have approved, I think.

I'm still waiting for a reply from TCM...hope someone here will provide an answer.

Thanks!

[–] Steamboy 10 years ago

The score by Joe Hisaishi just didn't feel appropriate. I recognized him without knowing he wrote it. It was too flamboyant, too orchestral, like a waltz, it didn't suit the action nor the location and time. And the ending song performed by Anna Mouglalis was plain awful. She was clearly struggling to sing in key. Her voice is fine for acting but terrible for singing.

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