In questo elenco di lavori si intendano ‘extra-cinematografici’ in senso lato, dal momento che si è pensato di inserire sia quelli prettamente concertistici sia quelli che col cinema hanno attinenza, ma solo, si veda il caso dei loghi, come fanfare introduttive di breve durata, quindi trattati come ‘miniature’ per orchestra. Le registrazioni di questi lavori sono rare e si limitano essenzialmente ai due principali, comunque quando se ne ha notizia verrà riportata l’indicazione. Analogamente a quanto detto per i lavori per cinema e televisione, di ogni lavoro si riporta data di composizione e registrazione eventuale (con riferimento a interpreti e durata dei pezzi), oltre al nome dell’ente committente del pezzo, se è noto.
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1961 Cinema International Corp. Logo
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196? Thunder of Imperial Names, per banda
Commissione della Usaf command band.
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1969 Christus Apollo ; per narratore, mezzosoprano, coro e orchestra, 'Cantata per celebrare l'ottavo giorno della creazione e la promessa del nono', in quattro parti. Testo di Ray Bradbury
Commissione della California Chamber Symphony.
Pubblicato da Elcajo Music Company.
*Registrazioni:
-Telarc Cd-80560 [edita nel 2002]
Part I [7.57]; Part II [9.07]; Part III [7.18]; Part IV [10.02]
Anthony Hopkins, narratore; Eirian James, mezzosoprano
London Voices; London Symphony Orchestra diretta da JG (reg.: settembre, ottobre [narrazione] 2000)
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-Tsunami Tci-0615 [Durata totale del lavoro: 37.23]
Charlton Heston, narratore; The Southern Chamber Orchestra and Choir diretti da JG
Nota: Goldsmith ricorda il periodo in cui ebbe la commissione:
Nel 1969, la California Chamber Symphony mi chiese di scrivere una cantata basata su un testo del noto scrittore Ray Bradbury. Ero contento di questa richiesta dal momento che la collaborazione con Bradbury risaliva agli anni cinquanta coi lavori alla radio e più tardi [1968] al film The illustrated man [basato su racconti dell’autore; tit.it.: L’uomo illustrato; regia di Jack Smight]. La cantata doveva essere un pezzo impegnativo come organico: orchestra, coro, mezzosoprano e narrazione. Sebbene il testo sia essenzialmente spirituale, ho scelto di comporre il pezzo usando il sistema dodecafonico. Sento molto la relazione tra impressionismo e dodecafonia e questo era il linguaggio musicale che volevo per Christus Apollo. Il pezzo si compone di quattro parti divise da interpolazioni narrate.
Testo:
Parte I
Narratore
A Voice spoke in the dark,
and there was Light.
And summoned up by Light upon the Earth
The creature swam
and moved unto the land
and lived in garden wilderness;
all this, we know.
The Seven Days are written in our blood
with hand of Fire.
And now we children of the seven eternal days
inheritors of this, the Eighth Days of God,
the long Eighth Days of Man,
stand upright in a weather of Time
in downfell snow
and hear the birds of morning
and much want wings
and look upon the beckonings of stars,
and need their fire.
Coro
In this time of Christmas,
we celebrate the Eighth Day of Man,
the Eighth Day of God,
two billion years unending
from the first sunrise on Earth
to the last sunrise at our Going Away.
And the Ninth Day of the History of God
and the flesh of God which names itself Man
will be spent on wings of fire
claimed from sun and far burnings of sun starlight.
And the Ninth Day's sunrise
will show us forth in light and wild surmise
upon an even further shore.
Narratore e Orchestra
And send us forth in wandering search.
Apollo's missions move, and Christus seek,
and wonder as we look among the stars
did he know these?
Mezzosoprano
In some far universal Deep
did He tread Space
and visit worlds beyond our blood-warm dreaming?
Did He come down on lonely shore by sea
not unlike Galilee
and are there Mangers on far worlds that knew
his fight?
And virgins?
Sweet pronouncements?
And, shivering vast light among ten billion lights,
was there some Star much like the star at Bethlehem
that struck the sight with awe and revelation
upon a cold and most strange morn?
Parte II
Narratore
On worlds gone wandering and lost from this
did Wise Men gather in the dawn
in cloudy steams of Beast
within a place of straw now quickened to a Shrine
to look upon a stranger Child than ours?
How many stars of Bethlehem burnt bright
beyond Orion or Centauri's blinding arc?
How many miracles of birth all innocent
have blessed those worlds?
Does Herod tremble there
in dread facsimile of our dark and murderous King?
Does that mad keeper of an unimaginable realm
send stranger soldiers forth
to slaughter down the Innocents
of lands beyond the Horsehead Nebula?
Coro
For in this time of Christmas
in the long Day totaling up to Eight,
we see the light, we know the dark;
and creatures lifted, born, thrust free of so much night
no matter what the world or time or circumstance
must love the light,
so, children of all lost unnumbered suns
must fear the dark
which mingles in a shadowing-forth on air.
And swarms the blood.
No matter what the color, shape or size
of beings who keep souls like breathing coals
in long midnights,
they must need saving of themselves.
Narratore e Orchestra
So on far worlds in snowfalls deep and clear
imagine how the rounding out of some dark year
might celebrate with birthing one miraculous child!
Mezzosoprano
A child?
Born in Andromeda's out-swept mysteries?
and count their hands, the fingers,
eyes, and most incredible holy limbs!
The sum of each?
No matter. Cease.
Let Child be fire as blue as water under Moon.
Let Child sport free in tides with human-seeming fish.
Let ink of octopi inhabit blood
Let skin take acid rains of chemistry
All falling down in nightmare storms.
Christ wanders in the Universe
Narratore e Orchestra
A flesh of stars,
Mezzosoprano
He takes on creature shapes
Narratore e Orchestra
To suit the mildest elements,
Mezzosoprano
He dressed him in flesh beyond our ken
Narratore e Orchestra
There He walks, glides, flies, shambling of strangeness.
Coro
Here He walks Man.
Parte III
Narratore
Among the ten trillion beams
a billion Bible scrolls are scored
In hieroglyphs among God's amplitudes of worlds;
in alphabet multitudinous
tongues which are not quite tongues
sigh, sibilate, wonder, cry:
as Christ comes manifest from a thunder-crimsoned
sky.
He walks upon the molecules of seas
all boiling stews of beast
all maddened broth and brew and rising up of yeast.
There Christ by many names is known.
We call him thus.
They call him otherwise.
His name on any mouth would be a sweet surprise.
He comes with gifts for all,
Here: wine and bread
There: nameless foods
at breakfasts where the morsels fall from stars
and Last Suppers are doled forth with stuff of dreams.
So sit they there in times before the Man is crucified.
Here He has long been dead.
There He has not yet died.
Yet, still unsure, and all being doubt,
much frightened man on Earth does cast about
and clothe himself in steel
and borrow fire
and himself in the great glass of careless
void admire.
Man builds him rockets
and on thunder strides
in humble goings-forth
and most understandable prides.
Fearing that all else slumbers,
that ten billion worlds lie still,
we, grateful for the Prize and benefit of life,
go to offer bread and harvest wine;
the blood and flesh of Him we Will
to other stars and worlds about those stars.
Coro
In this time of Christmas
this holy time of Christmas
we name ourselves for Christ
we name ourselves for God.
We cargo holy flesh
on stranger visitations,
send forth angelic hosts,
to farflung worlds
to tell our walking on the waters of deep Space,
arrivals, swift departures
of most miracolous man
who, God fuse-locked in every cell
beats holy blood
and treads the tidal flood
and ocean shore of Universe.
Mezzosoprano
A miracle of fish
we father, gather, build and strew
in metals to the winds
that circle Earth and wander Night beyond all Nights.
Coro
In this time of Christmas
This holy time of Christmas
Mezzosoprano
We soar, all arch-angelic, fire-sustained
in vast cathedral
of constellations all blind dazzlement
Coro
Christ is not dead
nor does God sleep
while waking Man
goes striding on the Deep
Parte IV
Narratore
To birth ourselves anew
and love rebirth
from fear of straying long
on outworn Earth
One harvest in, we broadcast seed for further reaping.
Thus ending Death
And Night,
and Time's demise.
and senseless weeping.
We seek for mangers in the Pleides
where man the god-fleshed wandering babe
may lay him down with such as these
who once drew round and worshipped innocence.
New Mangers lie waiting!
New Wise men Descry
our hosts of machineries
which write immortal life
and sign it God!
Down, down Alien skies.
And flown and gone, arrived and bedded safe to sleep
upon some winters morning deep
ten billion years of light
from where we stand us now and sing,
there will be time to cry eternal gratitudes
time to know and see and love the Gift of Life itself,
Always diminished,
always restored,
out of one hand and into the other
of the Lord.
Then wake we in that far lost
nightmare keep of Beast
and see our star recelebrated in an East
beyond all Easts.
Beyond a snowdrift sifting down of stars.
In this time of Christmas
think on that Morn ahead!
For this let all your fears, your cries,
your tears, your blood and prayers be shed!
All numb and wild one day
you shall be reborn
and hear the Trump break forth from
rocket-trembled air
all humbled, all shorn
of pride, but free of despair.
Now listen! Now hear!
It is the Ninth Day's morn!
Christ is risen!
God survives!
Gather, Universe!
Look, ye stars!
In the exultant countries of Space
in a sudden simple pasture
far beyond Andromeda!
O Glory, Glory, a New Christmas
torn
from the very pitch and rim of Death,
snatched from his universal grip,
his teeth, his most cold breath!
Under a most strange sun
O Christ, O God,
O man breathed out of most incredible stuffs,
you are the Savior's Savior,
God's pulse and heart companion,
you! The Host He lifts
on high to consecrate;
his dear need to know and touch and cry wonders
at Himself.
Coro
In this time of Christmas
know yourself most rare!
Mezzosoprano
Behold the rockets, more than chaff, on air,
all seed that save a holy seed
and cast it everywhere in mindless Dark.
You are the spark
that lights the Universe.
Coro
In this time of Christmas
know yoursef most rare
Mezzosoprano
You must go there.
In the long winter of Space
and lie you down in grateful innocence.
Coro
O God, far-motioning
O God-of-many-fleshed made one,
leave Earth!
Mezzosoprano
God himself cries out.
He goes to Prepare the Way
for your rebirth
and call you this
Coro
Christus Apollo!
Narratore
Listen. The sound of it!
Coro
Christus Apollo!
Narratore e Orchestra
How can you stay?
How for one breath linger,
wonder, stand, give Pause!
Put Earth away with All its Laws
man! Christ! Now go! Now follow!
Coro
It is the Time of Going Away.
Welcome the Ninth Day's Morn
arise! Be born!
Give voice, Give Praise
Rejoice!
Christus Apollo!
Narratore
Christus Apollo!
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197? Paramount TV Fanfare
Commissione: Paramount Pictures.
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1970 A Patch of Blue, balletto (dalle musiche del film di Guy Green del 1965)
Commissione per San Francisco.
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1971 Othello, balletto
Commissione del National Ballet of Australia
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1972 Music for Orchestra
Commissione della Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra.
Pubblicato da Elcajo Music Company.
*Registrazioni:
-Tsunami Tci-0615: [durata del brano: 8.03]
Minnesota Orchestra diretta da Leonard Slatkin
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-Telarc Cd-80560 [edita nel 2002]: [durata del brano: 8.16]
London Symphony Orchestra diretta da JG (reg.: settembre 2000)
Nota: Goldsmith stesso accenna brevemente alla commissione di questo pezzo:
Mi fu richiesto nel 1970 da Leonard Slatkin di scrivere un breve pezzo per la Saint Louis Symphony [di cui è direttore d’orchestra principale]. Ero contento per la commissione, ma in quel periodo le cose non andavano molto bene: stavo passando per un divorzio e mia madre si ammalò seriamente di cancro. Tutti i miei tumulti personali – panico, angoscia e dolore – vennero fuori scrivendo il pezzo in forma strettamente dodecafonica. Avevo ricevuto molte critiche all’idea di comporre in questo sistema e, nel clima musicale odierno, penso che questo stile sia molto anacronistico. Ma per me, in quel periodo, era un modo liberatorio di esprimere le mie sensazioni più profonde.
Il pezzo si può suddividere in tre parti, tutte basate sulla stessa serie di dodici altezze. La prima sezione è turbolenta, la seconda introspettiva e la terza molto agitata, ricapitolando in una catarsi le mie sensazioni.
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1987 Carolco Pictures Logo
Commissione della Carolco Pictures.
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1989 Capricorn One, balletto (dalle musiche per il film di Peter Hyams del 1978)
Commissione del Ballet Met di Columbus, Ohio.
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1993 Cinergi Pictures Logo
Commissione della Cinergi Pictures.
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1996 Universal Pictures Logo
Commissione della Universal International.
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1998 Fanfare for Oscar
Commissione dell'Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
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1999 Fireworks (a Celebration of Los Angeles), per orchestra
Composta per la Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, nel 1999.
Pubblicato da Elcajo Music Company.
*Registrazioni:
-Telarc Cd-80560 [edita nel 2002]: [durata 8.32]
London Symphony Orchestra diretta da JG (reg.: settembre 2000)
Nota: Goldsmith racconta brevemente la genesi del pezzo:
Composto nel 1999 per il finale della mia prima serie di concerti con la Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra all’Hollywood Bowl. Dopo aver cominciato a scrivere quello che era una stravaganza musicale, realizzai che stavo scrivendo sulla città nella quale sono nato e dove ho vissuto la mia intera esistenza. Decisi quindi di fare un pezzo di celebrazione della mia infanzia, dei miei anni di crescita, di maturità, e tutti gli eventi che portarono alla mia prima apparizione all’Hollywood Bowl.
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2001 Soarin over California (Disney California Adventure Theme Park IMAX Ride)
Commissione: Disney.
Orchestrazioni di Mark McKenzie
*Registrazioni:
Disney 60044-7.
Esiste anche: Avex Avcw12209 (prodotto in Giappone)
[durata del brano: 4.43 ]
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2003 C2 Pictures Logo
Commissione della C2 Pictures.
