Need help finding music
The music when John the Baptist is being beheaded....does anyone know what that score is called??? I really would like to purchase it. thanks
shareI think it was background music _not_ written by Newman, who had some collaborators to help him fill out the score. I have the 3-disk set and the rhythmic Middle Eastern dance music that accompanies the beheading is not on that disk set. Sorry, I don't know where to refer you.
shareI really did enjoy most of Newman’s compositions (sometimes selections). I bought the soundtrack on a 33LP 30 years ago. At the time I “felt” the music from this movie (particularly the pervasive opening theme and the selection used for the crucifixion). Then again I “felt” most of West Side Story, Ben-Hur and Cleopatra (today’s audiences have John Williams but they really don’t know what they are missing). Even though I am the father of 3 adult children, many of the songs could make me teary-eyed. As you have pointed out, this particular selection was apparently not Newman’s. When they bring Jesus to Herod (José Ferrer), you get the impression that his “minstrels” are playing Modern Jazz (which was still just evolving back in 1965).
shareNice to hear from you, as always :)
Yes, I guess the total amount of scoring required was too much for just one composer. Iirc, Fred Steiner may have been one of the "supporting composers".
I too bought the original ST album, I think in the Spring of 1964. I was so glad that the new 3-CD set contains the unused (crazy, crazy) Hallelujah music that Newman originally composed for the Lazarus and Jesus' resurrection scenes. George Stevens forced Newman to borrow his own earlier score from The Robe for the Lazarus sequence, as well as Handel's Hallelujah Chorus, with Newman's original Hallelujah music getting only a brief murmur. Now on the CD set, Newman's Hallelujah can be heard for both the Lazarus scene and the resurrection scenes. A posthumous triumph, but a boon to ST music fans.