John Adams [Television Series Soundtrack]
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Brand: LANE,ROBComposer: Rob Lane
Composer: Joseph Vitarelli
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 2008-04-22
Music Label: Varese Sarabande
Soundtracks:
- Opening Titles (2:44)
- Street Shanty / Finding Palmes (1:25)
- Abigail (1:36)
- Tarred & Feathered (2:20)
- Leaving For Philadelphia (2:20)
- Facing Defeat (2:56)
- The Militia Passes By (2:48)
- The Declaration Of Independence (6:05)
- John and Abigail (1:12)
- John Says Goodbye (3:26)
- Battle at Sea (5:30)
- No Letters (1:32)
- Abigail in Paris (1:55)
- The Villa (3:43)
- Dressed for the Opera (1:09)
- Hot Air Balloon (:51)
- Meeting with the King (1:49)
- The Oath (1:21)
- First President (1:07)
- Adams In The Cold (2:51)
- Dissatisfaction (2:45)
- Adams Resigns (2:08)
- Wall of Strength (1:43)
- Searching for Charles (1:44)
- Abigail Leaves Farm (1:03)
- Our Son Is Dead (3:20)
- The White House (3:04)
- Abigail Dies (5:00)
- Letter To Jefferson (3:52)
- Farewell to Adams (5:11)
Music reviews of John Adams [Television Series Soundtrack]
Music Review: Fine reflection of an age
Rating: 5 Stars
While browsing a mass merchant's video department one day, I saw two Goths who were studying the JOHN ADAMS DVD set with rapt attention. With their shoe-polish black hair, facial piercing,enormous key rings and nail-head boots, it was an unlikely scenario, and even more surprising when the taller kid said, "Did you ever see this, dude?" then paused. "It was, like, one of the only times in my life I really GOT what this America thing is all about."
Well, three cheers for that -- not only for the film to which he referred, but to the soundtrack which heightened the drama.
Not since James Horners' epic score for GLORY have I enjoyed the score of an historical film as much as this. Like Horner,Rob Lane and Joseph Vitarelli draw on the period themes and harmonies of a revolutionary age to build their musical backdrop to this much-admired mini-series. Here, though, the composers infuse their work with a more expansive variety of melodies and little sentimentality. With its imaginative, heroic orchestration, the score for JOHN ADAMS -- clocking in at over 70 minutes -- is richly satisfying. I've played it more than ten times since receiving it and still haven't tired of it.
The agitated fiddle dirge that forms the counterpoint for the main title is, perhaps, the most stirring, distinctly American title score I've heard since "Ashokan Farewell" in Ken Burns' THE CIVIL WAR. Reflecting the revolutionary fervor which inspired it so accurately, the piece rises in intensity until the listener's goosebumps compete with memories of Playtone's memorable production. It's rare to encounter such a varied and artful score on television -- although HBO had already broke the mold with Thomas Newman's score for ANGELS IN AMERICA.
One possible reason the music is so engaging is that it is as episodic as the film itself. For these two composers, it would not have been enough to simply recapitulate the principal theme. Instead, there are freestanding compositions for individual characters, for land battles, naval incursions, births, deaths, the narration of of Abigail's and John's letters -- and the historic pinnacles of the Revolution. Given the wide sound-stage of the recording and and competence of The Hollywood Studio Orchestra, the soundtrack is burnished American music of the highest order. The composers have infused their work with the raw emotion of the time and the hopes of five three generations of a family.
While such a frankly patriotic score beongs to a time other than our own, it reminds one of two founders' hopes and dreams and reminds us America is more than the sum of its parts. The fact that this project reached fruition during one of the two most politically oppressive periods of the past 100 years, this moving and intelligent work is worth its weight in gold.
Five stars.
Description of John Adams [Television Series Soundtrack]
Starring Paul Giamatti and Laura Linney, executive produced by Playtone's Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman, and directed by Emmy®-winner Tom Hooper, JOHN ADAMS is a seven-part epic miniseries event that explores American history through the eyes of one of the greatest of the founding fathers, John Adams (Giamatti), a fiercely independent spirit whose unwavering vision steered America through a tumultuous period.Based on David McCullough's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, the miniseries is produced for HBO Films by Playtone.
HBO's lavish, sprawling John Adams epic was given vital emotional wallop by the soundtrack. Two composers created music which was needed to convey the fervor of a newly emerging nation, and the quiet moments of a proud man who lived a long life shot through with sadness--losing his first a child, and then later, in his twilight years, his beloved wife Abigail. The orchestral sweep is clearly of the Twentieth Century, undulating like American landscapes. However both Rob Lane and Joseph Vitarelli are adept at drawing on our shared cultural sensibilities. They evoke the period of the Revolutionary War without stilted mannerisms. While the script, actors and the director portray history, the soundtrack resonates emotionally with the modern world. --David Greenberger
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