The City of Brass (Combo Pack)

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	1.	Bernard Herrmann - The City of Brass Narration by Christopher Young 07:57	info	buy track
	2.	The City of Brass (music only) 07:47	info	buy track

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Prior to all his film and radio scores Bernard Herrmann wrote a series of orchestral works he called "Melodrams" as accompaniment to poetry readings. The success of these works led directly to his creation of original scores for the new art of radio drama and ultimately to his unparalleled film scoring career over the next four decades. The "Melodrams" have gone unheard and unrecorded for 80 years until now.

Herrmann's word "Melodram" derives from the Greek words for song and drama. This term, he said, is "not to be confused with the word Melodrama in which highly colored incidents are presented in dialogue form". The music was inspired by the poems much in the manner in which a song or opera is created. In these works Herrmann first explored the dramatic use of music to support emotional content and meaning beneath dialog. These early works were fundamental to his subsequent development as a composer of dramatic underscore for radio, film, and television.

In this release The Hollywood Studio Orchestra presents "The City of Brass" in which "the full resources of the symphony orchestra are employed to set the background, to intensify the emotional context, and to amplify your subconscious reaction by tonal color and dynamics. In this highly complex type of musical treatment meaning and story are subordinated to the sound values of the poet's words and the orchestra's voices."

Narrated by acclaimed film composer Christopher Young.

Cover art: detail from Ishtar Gate

font: Sinbad

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released December 6, 2018

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