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Music Conducted By
Jerry Goldsmith

Orchestrations By
Jerry Goldsmith

Recorded By
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Performed By
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Album Produced By
Douglas Fake

Label
Quartet Records

Previous Release(s)
Varese Sarabande
VCL 1102 1016

Year Of CD/Film Release
2011/1962

Running Time
33:16

Availability
Limited Edition Release

Cues & Timings

 

1. Main Title (2:00)
2. A New Year (2:32)
3. Out of Work (3:44)
4. A Game of Pool (6:30)
5. Catherine (1:31)
6. No Hate (3:28)
7. The Sign (1:34)
8. No Break (:51)
9. The Job (1:11)
10. Protection (2:08)
11. The Crisis (:37)
12. The Depression (3:40)
13. Destitute Man (2:35)

Bonus Track:

14. Main Title (2:06) (mono)


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Studs Lonigan
 
 

It seems Goldsmith's toughest critic (himself) was even keen to see this score properly preserved, so it must be good. Dating back to 1962, Studs Lonigan - the movie, was a very minor affair but the score proved to be a gold mine of musical invention and a building block in the young composer's career that would ultimately reinforce his new position on the A list. Studs' was a small drama about growing up and the inevitability of responsibility set in depression hit America of the 1930's. Goldsmith's score seems to capture the good times and bad perfectly as responsibility looms for the movie's wild one and one time lead. From sweet harmonica to warm strings and lazy brass statements that play like cool 50's Jazz. Then steaming ahead into a manic ragtime style heralded by a cacophony of orchestral force and a virtuoso performance by a young John Williams at the piano. Cues 3 and 4 are worth the purchase price alone as Goldsmith initiates one hell of a barn burner that plays out over six minutes. Stunning stuff! As the final act moves into view Goldsmith tones everything down for some frustratingly short emotive cues, really sad and tragic scoring, that captures the downbeat and abrupt ending just right. Required listening.