Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.PCS 1/10/84; site ahutb.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!drutx!ahuta!ahutb!leeper From: leeper@ahutb.UUCP (m.r.leeper) Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Re: Passage to India (really Dr. Zhivago's music) Message-ID: <543@ahutb.UUCP> Date: Fri, 8-Mar-85 23:50:12 EST Article-I.D.: ahutb.543 Posted: Fri Mar 8 23:50:12 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 10-Mar-85 05:17:17 EST References: <84@spar.UUCP>, <526@rlgvax.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Information Systems Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 42 REFERENCES: <84@spar.UUCP>, <526@rlgvax.UUCP> >A potentially interesting note on Maurice Jarre's score for >Dr. Zhivago, from the book "Film Music: A Neglected Art" >by Roy M. Prendergast: > > As a contrast to this sensitive use of a theme [Mancini's sparing > use of "Moon River" in "Breakfast at Tiffany's"], one might look at > Maurice Jarre's score for "Dr. Zhivago" where his banal "Lara's > Theme" grinds on interminably and loses any of its dramatic impact > by the end of the first third of the film. > >A footnote, though, adds this: > > In fairness to Maurice Jarre, it should be pointed out that he was > not responsible for this. The producer, during the production of > the film, became so enamored of Jarre's "Lara's Theme" that he > threw out much of Jarre's other music for the film and substituted > the music of "Lara's Theme." > >I have to admit I was somewhat relieved. I had always >enjoyed the soundtrack album for "Dr. Zhivago," and was >disappointed that the film itself seemed to handle the music >so insensitively. > After hearing this I wondered what the missing pieces might have sounded like. Then I heard a piece of music that sounded like it could have come from the score. I told myself "Self, that both sounds Russian and like it is in Jarre's style." Upon closer examination I discovered that it was Jarre writing in Russian style. The piece of music was the closing credit sequence of THE BLACK MARBLE. The film is an adaptation of a Joseph Wambaugh novel about a policeman of Russian extraction. I am only speculating, but a composer rarely throws away a good piece of music and this might have been part of the excised Zhivago score. People interested may want to watch for the film to show up on TV. Mark Leeper ...ihnp4!ahutb!leeper "Prez of the Evelyn Leeper Fan Club, but why smarm all over the net?"