The soundtrack album can be ordered on the Intrada Records official store page – Alive Expanded CD.Ģ6. The film is written by John Patrick Shanley, directed by Frank Marshall, stars Ethan Hawke, Vincent Spano, Josh Hamilton, John Haymes Newton, Bruce Ramsay, David Kriegel, Jack Noseworthy, Kevin Breznahan, David Cubitt, Gian DiDonna, John Cassini, Richard Ian Cox, Nuno Antunes, Gordon Currie, Sam Behrens, Michael Tayles, Steven Shayler. Genre: Original Motion Picture SoundtrackĪlive is a 1993 American survival biographical drama film based on the 1974 book Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors by Piers Paul Read. The music was composed by James Newton Howard who has scored A Hidden Life, Dreamcatcher, Red Sparrow. I think the the thrill of getting the music right against a scene is so big and so powerful for me - and when it happens, that's just really why I do it.Original Motion Picture Soundtrack ( Expanded CD Release) for the film Alive (1993). "You find some way to connect to some idea, or some part of the story, that will inspire you enough to give it the same amount of effort as you would with, you know, getting Lawrence of Arabia to work on. "I like to think that every score I do, I am connected to emotionally, even the bad movies," Howard says. But he's approached each one with the same attitude. With more than a hundred films to his credit, it's inevitable that Howard has scored his share of clunkers in the past 35 years. I mean, the score's achingly beautiful, I think." That's the thing, you know, he's got impeccable taste as well as impeccable judgment. "He's so incredibly accurate," says Greengrass of Howard. When director Paul Greengrass took on a completely unfamiliar genre - the American western with News of the World, he wanted one of the steadiest musical guns in town. I may be faking it sometimes, but that's kind of what we're doing anyway." I'm rather proud of the fact that I have worked on all sorts of movies, and they've all kind of worked out. "Because I've never really believed that I have a clear defining sound. "Yeah, I think that's been a strength, and maybe on some level a weakness," Howard reflects. Howard has been nominated for eight Oscars, but never won - maybe because he changes his style so often. Most recently, Howard wrote a meditation for violin and orchestra for A Hidden Life, the Terrence Malick drama about an Austrian farmer who refuses to pledge loyalty to Hitler. He scored The Hunger Games franchise and multiple episodes of ER. Howard collaborated with Hans Zimmer to score Batman Begins and The Dark Knight. Night Shyamalan's Alfred Hitchcock - scoring a string of metaphysical thrillers that included The Sixth Sense, The Village and Signs. He went on to become the Bernard Herrmann to M. Howard was nominated for an Oscar and the score was used as a temporary soundtrack for years by directors making action movies. He could work in the classical world, and he could be very funky and hip at the same time." "And he also had a great sense of rhythm. Pretty soon, he scored the blockbuster rom-com Pretty Woman, then got his first Oscar nomination for the Barbra Streisand romance, The Prince of Tides.īut his career really hit warp speed when he scored the Harrison Ford/Tommy Lee Jones action film, The Fugitive, directed by Andrew Davis. Greatly expanded 2-CD release of powerful James Newton Howard score Dramatic 1993 film from Disney’s Touchstone Pictures dramatizes harrowing real-life tale of 1972 Uruguay rugby team enroute to match in Chile when their plane crashes in the Andes mountains of Argentina. Howard got his feet wet scoring low-rent comedies and small dramas. So, if you're a good storyteller, possibly as a musician, then that would seem to be able to translate into work as a film composer." "A songwriter is a storyteller, and no different from a visual storyteller. Then, in 1985, he was asked to score a film. He also produced, arranged, and played for the likes of Toto, Diana Ross and Earth, Wind & Fire. But the lure of rock and roll was too strong, and Howard joined Elton John's band - composing, playing keyboards, and writing orchestra arrangements for the superstar from 1975 to 1982. As a kid, Howard was on track to become a classical pianist he even got a full scholarship to the University of Southern California.
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