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INTRADA Presents:



UNTIL SEPTEMBER
Music Composed and Conducted by JOHN BARRY
INTRADA Special Collection Volume 90

In 1984, director Richard Marquand, fresh off his stint as director of the previous year's Return of the Jedi, took a dramatic turn with his next project. He followed his gigantic success with an unpretentious romantic drama/comedy filmed in Paris: Until September. Karen Allen stars as Mo Alexander, an attractive, single and headstrong young American who is on her way to the Eastern Bloc to chaperone students. She misses her flight while on a Paris stopover and decides to spend a few days in the city. Fortunately for Mo, a vacationing girlfriend offers her cozy apartment and soon discovers that a rich, handsome and married banker named Xavier de la Perouse (Thierry Lhermitte) lives next door. With his wife and kids away on vacation, Xavier aggressively pursues the reluctant visitor. Mo has misgivings about having a summer fling with an undeniably attractive, but married, man, but the chemistry between them is too great. They become lovers and as their relationship grows, so do the complexities. They fight. They make up. They fight again, until Xavier admits that he’s fallen in love with her. Just when things seem settled, his wife returns, raising life-changing questions.

What better composer to write the score for a romance than John Barry, whose nostalgic, romantic score for Somewhere in Time ranks as one of the most bittersweet, romantic scores. The lovely “Main Title,” backed by flute and piano, immediately sets the tone for the film as the camera pans across Parisian vistas. Barry features his trademark solo harmonica at times to evoke a feeling of Americana for this American waiting in Paris. Until September is a beautiful, understated, yet evocative score that captures the joy, heartbreak, and passion of falling in love. It is a romantic valentine for viewers and listeners alike. As one critic in Soundtrack! magazine remarked in his review, "On rainy nights, with cups of hot chocolate in hand, we can listen, savor, and be grateful."

Thirteen tracks of music from Until September were originally available on LP and CD. For this newly re-mastered release, Intrada has remixed ½” 15 i.p.s. three-track session masters and created a brand new two-track stereo master. Intrada has included all of the cues and resequenced them to correspond with the film as intended, as well as adding four new tracks not previously released. Grab you hot chocolate and enjoy this score soon...it's limited to 1200 copies.


INTRADA Special Collection - Volume 90
Retail Price: 19.99
AVAILABLE NOW
For track listing and sound samples, please visit
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Ordered,
of course...

Anyone who is a fan of SOMEWHERE IN TIME would love this score.

Expanded only by a mere four minutes, still it's well worth it!

As I don't have the prior release, ordered. What a switch I go from the sound samples by Barry to my just received copy of the score to Big Trouble in Little China.

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Jerry Goldsmith conducting the Detroit Symphony and nearly knocking me through the back wall with Air Force One....priceless.

Looks like there's less than 300 left. I didn't quite think this would fly out the door so quickly! I figured since STAR CRASH was still around, this would sit for awhile as a nice catalog title.

Odder still how STARCRASH itself has been erased from both the Intrada and SAE stores.

Actually, not odd, but ironic...
Anyway, UNTIL SEPEMBER, was the superior of the two coupled scores and perhaps now people will rush to get STARCRASH.

PS:
I believe I've evoked the wrath of the Hamster gods...
thus STARCRASH has been re-listed at Intrada...
Praise be all hamsters!!

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"If music doesn`t sing, or dance, or have an interesting harmonic concept, then it shouldn`t be there at all. A film score should burn with its own fire, not merely glow in the dark like a pretty charcoal." – John Barry, 1972

I know, I'm just curious as to whether the 1100+ copies sold by Intrada includes copies that have been ordered by, for example, Screen Archives to be part of their stock and get sold on.

(As opposed to the other possibility, which is that retailers like Intrada and Screen Archives are linked by B2B technology, so they're both selling from the one 'pool' of stock.)

Cheers

I'm sure glad I checked the FSM site and saw that this was almost sold out- that'll teach me to never put off ordering one of these at point of announcement.

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WE HAVE COME TO VISIT YOU IN PEACE AND WITH GOOD WILL.

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Music composed, arranged and conducted by JOHN BARRY