[quote="kipling71
"Birdman" is quickly moving to the top of my list of favorite Elmer scores - and it's pretty crowded up there. It's been a great year for score releases but this one really stands out.
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Agreed. Among Elmer's intimate dramatic scores this one is close to TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (and not just chronologically
). Something I have come to realize, only recently, is that the spade work for these classic scores was being done by the composer in many of his sequences for the Eames films. The scores in those documentaries are like a living journal foreshadowing the greatness to come. I gave a couple of adolescents a lift home from the library, one day. The Eames anthology was playing in the car. One piped up, "Hey, that sounds like TO KILL A MOCKINBIRD", with which he had a passing acquaintance from an English class. I happily told him the composer's name was Elmer Bernstein.
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