--- In thealexnorthfanclub@yahoogroups.com, "Michael Gates"
<gatesmichael@y...> wrote:
> I've been listening to this new North CD from Film Score Monthly.
> This is one of North's more small-scale, intimate scores (as
opposed
> to his epics, like "Spartacus" and "Cleopatra.")If you like
North's
> work for "literary" movies, like "The Long Hot Summer," "Who's
Afraid
> of Virginia Woolf?" etc., you'll probably like "All Fall Down"
> (1962). It's full of subtle, complex, delicate melody--often quite
> beautiful. The disc also includes a 14-minute suite that North
> composed for a movie called "The Outrage" (1964), which reminds me
in
> places of certain parts of "Africa," though it's more melodic than
> that score. It also has passages with a Mexican flavor, as in
> North's "Viva Zapata!" (The movie, set in the Old West, revolves
> around a Mexican character.) All in all, quite a worthy edition to
> the North CD catalog. I'm surprised Varese Sarabande didn't
release
> this one long ago.

Ohh finally FSM is releasing some North. :D I had begged them in
their message board. ;) I hope to get this.