WHOSE LIFE IS IT ANYWAY?

Label: FSMCD Vol.12 No.11
Date: 1981
Tracks: 25
Time = 57:37

Original soundtrack from John Badham drama based on Brian Clark stage production, starring Richard Dreyfuss, John Cassavetes. Arthur B. Rubinstein creates buoyant, "life-affirming" score with nods to Bach & Baroque. Unusual scoring calls for strings without violins, woodwinds without flute or clarinet plus brass including four piccolo trumpets. Period-style musical dance forms permeate but contemporary harmonic language of composer keeps everything vivid, fresh, exciting. Presented from original 1/2" three-track elements. FSM production also includes variety of early takes, alternates. Splendid liner notes (by Alexander Kaplan & Jonathan Z. Kaplan) illuminate film production, scoring process, each individual cue, more! Arthur B. Rubinstein conducts. Limited edition of 2000 copies.

1. Main Titles 3:08 2. Intensive Care 1:37 3. Trumpet Voluntary (source) 1:20 4. Baroque Sweet 1:36 5. Hand Job / Spills 2:38 6. The Diagnosis 1:06 7. You Eat the Pill / I Want You to Sleep 2:03 8. Montage (Sculpting Pat) 3:39 9. The Parting 2:14 10. Purple Pimpernel (source) 1:49 11. I Can’t Breathe 1:43 12. Nice Breasts 4:10 13. Dialysis 2:14 14. Candid Camera 1:28 15. Ken’s Studio 1:24 16. Art Thief 2:21 17. Find a Judge 2:52 18. Bad News in the Snow 2:53 19. Brave and Thoughtful Man 2:37 20. Don’t / Finale and End Credits 3:38 BONUS TRACKS 21. Jump in the Line (source) 1:02 22. Hospital Lady (source) 2:46 23. Intensive Care (film version) 1:37 24. Main Titles (piano) 1:58 25. Montage (Sculpting Pat) (pre-recording) 2:40