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THE MUMMY RETURNS (2CD)

THE MUMMY RETURNS (2CD)
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    Alan Silvestri
    Label: Intrada Special Collection Volume ISC 404
    Film Date: 2001
    Album Date: 2018
    Time: 147:27
    Tracks: 51
    Massive Alan Silvestri score gets lavish 2-CD treatment!

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    • Massive Alan Silvestri score gets lavish 2-CD treatment! Stephen Sommers follows his 1999 blockbuster with even bigger event, bringing back Brendan Fraser in the lead, Rachel Weisz, John Hannah in support. Patricia Velasquez proves worthy opponent for Weisz while Dwayne Johnson makes his major film debut as “The Scorpion King”, soon to have an entire spinoff for himself. Think starpower! Expanding on adventures from 1999’s The Mummy, archaeologist Fraser now finds himself embroiled in spectacular sword fights, battles hanging from dirigibles, desert warfare, screaming pygmy attacks, combat with the titular character… and of course dueling with “the Scorpion King”. Returning in larger roles are those noble Medjai Commanders, led by dashing Oded Fehr. In fact, one of composer Silvestri’s highlights is the sweeping, richly harmonized major-key theme for those heroic horse-mounted fighters. Swords flash to major chords galore! Following in path forged by Jerry Goldsmith for initial 1999 movie, Silvestri writes to gigantic scale of Universal’s part-Lawrence of Arabia, part-The Sea Hawk, part-The Ten Commandments, part-Indiana Jones and part the proverbial kitchen sink. And how it does work! Silvestri nods to all of the above with his huge 100-piece orchestra and 60-voice chorus, recorded in London. Silvestri enjoys telling of the joy in recording all of the musicians together rather than with the customary separate groups recording at separate sessions. The majestic sound achieved becomes one of his personal favorite scoring experiences! Besides the Medjai theme, numerous other themes appear, including not one but two rousing themes associated with Fraser’s spirited adventures. Love themes, sinister ideas and an aggressive orchestral/choral rhythmic theme for evil Velasquez and a sinuous English horn theme for the Scorpion Kind also get moments front and center. All total, Silvestri records some 112 minutes of score, plus an additional 35 minutes of alternates to accommodate changes during film editing, making it one of his largest projects ever! Decca released a soundtrack CD of highlights but due to timing of 2001 album release in stores, they necessarily had to drop large portions of the score that had not yet been mixed, including every single cue scored for the climactic action sequences, totaling some 25 minutes alone! All of it is premiered here in Intrada’s 2-CD set for the first time, courtesy of Universal Pictures and Universal Music Group! Included amongst many such highlights are the epic-scale climactic battle cues, final dirigible action sequence and the powerhouse fanfare-coda that finds the film’s actual title card finally unfolding climactically across the screen, brass triumphant! And if all that wrap-up isn’t musical spectacle enough, the first-ever release of the magnificent end credit music also premieres, using several key themes before landing on the Medjai theme in dynamic manner and unwinding in its own majestic array of brilliant fortissimo brass! Literally a masterpiece of classic-style film music! Flipper-style booklet design by Kay Marshall, literate notes by Tim Grieving further enhance the dramatic package. Alan Silvestri produces, composes, conducts the Sinfonia of London Orchestra and Chorus. Intrada 2-CD set available while quantities and interest remain!
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      CD 1 Complete Soundtrack
      01. Opening (4:53)
      02. Tomb Raider Rick* (1:30)
      03. Been Here Before* (2:46)
      04. I Just Had A Vision* (1:39)
      05. Sling Shot Marksman* (0:19)
      06. Scorpion Shoes (4:24)
      07. Loch-Nah And Meela (1:10)
      08. Imhotep Unearthed! (3:15)
      09. Just An Oasis (1:23)
      10. Bad Guys To The Manor* (0:32)
      11. Bracelet Awakens (1:27)
      12. Have I Kissed You?* (0:55)
      13. Meet Meela (Revised)* (0:54)
      14. Evy Kidnapped (Revised)* (6:09)
      15. Rick’s Tattoo (2:02)
      16. Imhotep Reborn! (2:40)
      17. My First Bus Ride (Revised) (7:43)
      18. The Mushy Part (2:40)
      19. Train Chapter (Film Version)* (5:51)
      20. Medjai Commanders (1:13)
      21. Dirigible Montage (0:54)
      22. I Want Him Back* (1:04)
      23. Flush Of Freedom* (1:50)
      24. Tsk Tsk* (0:24)
      25. Evy’s Flashback Swordfight* (2:30)
      26. Flashback Finale (4:02)
      27. What? No Ice?* (0:29)
      28. Sandcastles/Breadcrumbs (3:25)
      29. Canyon Deluge (2:18)
      CD 1 Total Time: 70:54

      CD 2 Complete Soundtrack (Cont.)
      01. Pygmy Territory* (1:53)
      02. Something Is Coming!* (2:04)
      03. Pygmy Attack (3:31)
      04. More Pygmies* (1:41)
      05. Racing The Sun!* (0:54)
      06. Evy Dies (3:27)
      07. Curator’s Bad Idea* (1:28)
      08. Sand Warriors* (2:40)
      09. Gong* (0:19)
      10. Rick Battles Imhotep* (6:55)
      11. False Victory (Revised)* (4:46)
      12. Wrong Girlfriend (Revised)* (1:52)
      13. Happy Ending* (4:07)
      14. The Mummy Returns – End Credits* (2:29)
      15. Forever May Not Be Long Enough (Performed by LIVE) (3:47)
      Time: 42:00
      Complete Soundtrack Time: 1:52:54

      The Extras
      16. Meet Meela (Original) (0:54)
      17. Evy Kidnapped (Original) (5:54)
      18. My First Bus Ride (Original) (7:42)
      19. Train Chapter (Album Version) (5:32)
      20. False Victory (Original)* (4:49)
      21. Wrong Girlfriend (Original)* (1:46)
      22. The Mummy Returns (7:42)
      Total Extras Time: 34:25
      CD 2 Total Time: 76:33
      *Not Previously Released

    • Tech Talk From The Producer…

      The soundtrack for The Mummy Returns is one of the most ambitious ever composed by Alan Silvestri during his extremely prolific career. In terms of thematic material, volume of notes and sheer weight, it is substantial indeed. To present all of it to listeners for the first time, Intrada was provided access to all the scoring session elements made in London with the composer conducting the Sinfonia of London Orchestra and Chorus in March 2001, courtesy of Universal Pictures and the Universal Music Group. The scoring sessions were helmed by Dennis Sands, who brought everything back home to ToddAO in Studio City, California, to mix the 32-track digital masters in 5.1 for the film soundtrack as well as down to two-track stereo for the album and other related purposes. From there, Silvestri and his associate David Bifano selected 70 minutes of highlights from the stereo mixes (plus the song “Forever May Not Be Long Enough,” performed by Live) and quickly assembled the initial soundtrack album release for Decca Records on May 1, 2001.

      The finished film featured approximately 110 minutes of music Silvestri also recorded another half hour of changes—including alternate pickups and revisions for the changing editorial needs of the picture as well as some re-scored bars intended for the album—bringing everything captured at those London sessions to some 140 minutes. Intrada presents the score as intended for the film on CD 1 and the first part of CD 2 (including the song), and the alternate takes on the second half of CD 2.

      In certain instances, the alternate versions differ by mere bars; in other cases, the differences are more substantial. Examples of each follow:

      The original take of “Meet Meela” (CD 2, track 16) includes a rattlesnake shaker in the percussion section at the point where the reptile appears on screen, but this color was dropped in the revised take that appears in the film (CD 1, track 16). In a more substantial revision, the “Evy Kidnapped” sequence appears as originally recorded on CD 2, track 17; Silvestri revised and lengthened the cue that appeared in the film (and on the Decca album) to include an additional rousing brass fanfare near the end to mirror some climactic onscreen heroics (CD 1, track 14).

      Silvestri revised “My First Bus Ride” (CD 1, track 17) to feature orchestral hits timed to the action on screen; as such, it differed from the original take heard on CD 2, track 18. “Train Chapter” features several revised bars and edits used for the album version (CD 2, track 19) that differ from those recorded for the film itself (CD 1, track 19). “False Victory” is another example of an exciting sequence recorded in one version (CD 2, track 20) and subsequently revised for the picture (CD 2, track 11). “Wrong Girlfriend” was scored twice, once with a version simply ending the phrase in strings and again in a similar version that extends this ending to include an additional coda. Both are heard on CD 2 with the revised version in the complete soundtrack portion (track 12) and the original featured in the extras (track 21).

      Incredibly, not a single cue representing the climactic action sequences or finale (about 25 minutes of music) was included on the original Decca release. This was because the album master was due for delivery prior to everything having been mixed; consequently, those cues were not available for the album mix sessions. All this impressive music appears on this release for the first time.

      Deserving the spotlight here are the magnificent final sequences with the family of heroes sailing away from danger via hot air balloon and the subsequent end title sequence—both cues available here for the first time. In “Happy Ending” (CD 2, track 13), Silvestri offers some of the most rousing and ferocious music of his entire score. Then, midway into the cue, the picture moves to the group’s aerial farewell to their friend, the noble Medjai warrior Ardeth Bay (Oded Fehr), mounted on horseback down on terra firma. Silvestri offers a stirring quote of his theme as everyone waves goodbye. Following a dramatic crescendo, the composer presents a powerhouse finish to the picture proper. In the following sequence that introduces the end credit music, Silvestri writes his most sweeping and epic treatment of the warrior theme, now scored for the full resources of his massive orchestra, percussion ensemble and chorus. As the principal credits emerge on screen, Silvestri works with the magnificent Medjai theme, and as the end credit crawl scrolls towards the climactic appearance of the film’s title card, he unleashes a resplendent, fortissimo fanfare to crown his most triumphant of codas.

      —Douglass Fake

    • Composed and Conducted by Alan Silvestri.
      The Mummy Returns Tracks 14 & 25 on CD 1, Tracks 7, 10–14 on CD 2 Recorded on April 7 & 13, 2001, at TODD AO, Hollywood, California.

      This soundtrack was produced in cooperation with the
      American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada.



      CONDUCTOR
      Alan Silvestri


      CONTRACTOR
      Sandy De Crescent

      VIOLIN
      Rene M. Mandel
      Sid Page
      Eun-Mee Ahn
      Richard L. Altenbach
      Elizabeth Baker
      Jacqueline I. Brand
      Robert L. Brosseau
      Kevin Connolly
      Franklyn D'Antonio
      Mario DeLeon
      Bruce Dukov
      Armen Garabedian
      Berj Garabedian
      Julie Ann Gigante
      Endre Granat
      Alan H. Grunfeld
      Clayton Haslop
      Tamara L. Hatwan Chang
      Amy Hershberger
      Tiffany Yi Hu
      Patricia Johnson
      Miran Haig Kojian
      Aimee Kreston
      Natalie Leggett
      Dimitrie Leivici
      Kathleen Lenski
      Phillip Levy
      Liane Mautner Reynolds
      Robin Olson
      Sara K. Parkins
      Katia K. Popov
      Rafael Rishik
      Mark D. Robertson
      Jay Rosen
      Anatoly Rosinsky
      Marc Sazer
      Haim Shtrum
      Rachel Stegeman Purkin
      Polly H. Sweeney
      Josefina Vergara
      Roger D. Wilkie
      Kenneth Yerke

      VIOLA
      Simon Oswell
      Denyse N. Buffum
      Brian Dembow
      Marlow G. Fisher
      Rick Gerding
      Steven A. Gordon
      Keith Greene
      Jennie Hansen
      Carrie Holzman-Little
      Piotr T. Jandula
      Janet Lakatos
      Darrin E. McCann
      Victoria E. Miskolczy
      Dan Lionel Neufeld
      Michael Nowak
      Cassandra Lynne Richburg
      Daniel Seidenberg
      Karen Van Sant
      David F. Walther, Jr.
      Evan N. Wilson
      Mihail Zinovyev



      CELLO
      Dennis Karmazyn
      David Speltz
      Paul A. Cohen
      J. Antony Cooke
      Douglas L. Davis
      Stephen P. Erdody
      Christine Ermacoff
      Trevor Handy
      Todd Hemmenway
      Armen Ksajikian
      Dane R. Little
      David Low
      Steve Richards
      Martin Tillman
      Sebastian Toettcher
      Cecilia Tsan
      John A. Walz

      BASS
      Nico C. Abondolo
      Drew D. Dembowski
      Charles Domanico
      Peter Doubrovsky
      Donald V. Ferrone
      Richard Feves
      Christopher Hanulik
      Oscar Hidalgo
      Christian C. Kollgaard
      Edward Meares
      Bruce P. Morgenthaler
      Nicolas Philippon
      Michael Valerio

      WOODWINDS
      Phillip Ayling
      Leanne Becknell
      Emily Bernstein
      Gary S. Bovyer
      CThomas G. Boyd
      Louise M. DiTullio Dissman
      Earle D. Dumler
      Gary G. Gray
      Susan Greenberg
      Michael Grego
      James M. Kanter
      Marty Krystall
      Stephanie McNab
      Kenneth E. Munday
      Michael R. O'Donovan
      David W. Riddles
      Geraldine Rotella
      Allen M. Savedoff
      Amanda Walker
      James R. Walker.

      FRENCH HORN
      James W. Thatcher
      Steven B. Becknell
      Brian Drake
      David A. Duke
      Jerry Folsom
      Ronn Kaufmann
      Yvonne Suzette Moriarty
      Kristy Morrell
      Brian D. A. O’Connor
      John A. Reynolds
      Kurt G. Snyder
      Richard J. Todd
      Phillip E. Yao

      TRUMPET
      Charles Davis
      Gary E. Grant
      Larry Hall
      Jon Lewis
      Warren H. Luening Jr.



      TROMBONE
      Bruce Fowler
      Charles C. Loper
      Richard Nash
      William F. Reichenbach
      Phillip Teele

      TUBA
      John Tommy Johnson
      James M. Self
      Douglas V. Tornquist

      PERCUSSION
      Lenny Castro
      Luis C. Conte
      Alan Estes
      Richard Garcia
      Gregory Goodall
      Peter Limonick
      Alex Neciosup-Acuna
      Thomas D. Raney
      Steven Schaeffer
      Donald J. Williams
      Jerry D. Williams

      HARP
      Katie Kirkpatrick
      Jo Ann Turovsky

      KEYBOARDS
      David Bifano
      Michael Fisher
      Ralph E. Grierson
      Randy M. Kerber
      Randy B. Waldman

      GUITAR
      George Doering
      W. Dean Parks

      ORCHESTRATORS
      Mark McKenzie
      William Ross
      David C. Slonaker

      COPYIST
      Jo Ann Kane
      Russell W. Bartmus
      Vince Bartold
      Leland B. Bond
      Thomas G. Brown
      Stephen A. Cartotto
      Lars Clutterham
      Bonnie Cook
      John Eidsvoog
      Julia A. Eidsvoog
      William M. Francis III
      Daniel Gold
      Ronald F. Gorow
      Mark Graham
      Danail Gueorguiev
      James F. Hoffman
      Roberta McIntosh
      Deborah S. Mitchell Jones
      William E. Motzing
      Bronwyn Oswell
      Larry B. Rench
      Carl A. Rydlund
      Katherine E. Salvidge
      Marni A. Sanders
      Howard J. Segurson
      Steven Lee Smith
      Terry O. Wolff

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