A travesty
Damien Slattery | Dublin, Ireland | 05/10/2010
(2 out of 5 stars)
"This is a warning !
This purports to be a soundtrack of Charles Strouse's period score, but it is actually full of sound-clips from the film. We get constant snippets of dialogue that have no value without the visual. The only uninterrupted music is the main title- "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" by Flatt & Scruggs. This is superb, in a country/blue grass vein. All the other tracks are sound effects and dialogue that segue into the composer's background score. The music sections are very short, which is probably why the CD is formatted this way, but I would gladly have a very short album than a truncated thing like this. Strouse has written some very winning music that has a hint of Americana in Copland mode, with occasional flavorings of banjos and trumpets. If I was Charles Strouse? I would sue the album producers. What in Heaven were they thinking?!"