Earthquake: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
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Composer: John WilliamsEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 1995-05-09
Music Label: Varese Sarabande
Soundtracks:
- Main Title, 'Earthquake'
- Miles On Wheels
- City Theme
- Something For Rosa
- Love Scene
- The City Sleeps
- Love Theme
- Cory In Jeopardy
- Medley: (A) Watching & Waiting/(B) Miles' Pool Hall/(C) Sam's Rescue
- Something For Remy
- Finale, End Title
- Earthquake: Special Effects
- Aftershock
Music reviews of Earthquake: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Music Review: John Williams Shakes Things Up
Rating: 4 Stars
Prior to him becoming Hollywood's hottest composer of film music, when people like George Lucas, Oliver Stone, and, most prominently, Steven Spielberg made it their business to make his genius part of their canvas, John Williams had already had a reputation of some standing: working with fellow composers like Jerry Goldsmith, Henry Mancini, and Bernard Herrmann; and also composing scores for a variety of other films, notably in that oft-maligned genre of the early-to-mid 1970s called the Disaster Genre. He had already done it for Irwin Allen's 1972 opus THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE; and he turned the trick twice as 1974 ended. The first one out of the chute was the score he composed for the Mark Robson-directed EARTHQUAKE.
As a film, EARTHQUAKE is an admittedly fairly standard-issue sci-fi/disaster film of its time, with Los Angeles and much of Southern California being annihilated by a massive earthquake in the 8-to-9 point range, and such stars as Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, George Kennedy, and Genevieve Bujold just trying to stay alive and sane. But the driving force, aside from the Oscar-winning special effects of Albert Whitlock, Frank Brendel, and Glen Robinson, is Williams' score, which incorporates brooding classical, pop, and jazz elements. Although not anywhere near as flashy or well known as what Williams would do in years and decades to come, it does a good job at depicting the City of Angels in ruins for what really is a soap opera with frightening special effects. The three-part cue "Watching And Waiting/Miles' Pool Hall/Sam's Rescue" is especially enlightening, beginning with brooding piano and strings, melding into a jazz-rock fusion riff, then the Sensurround rumblings of the Big One itself, and a return to the brooding piano and strings.
To put it mildly, EARTHQUAKE's standing with film critics is not very good, and that's why Williams' music for it is not as well known as what he would accomplish later on. Nevertheless, it does work for the film and its various sub-plots; and, as is the case with practically everything Williams has done, it is eminently listenable from start to finish.
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