Intrada Records has announced a new soundtrack album for the 1993 adventure drama A Far Off Place directed by Mikael Salomon and starring Reese Witherspoon, Jack Thompson and Maximilian Schell. The album features the film’s original music composed and conducted by Academy Award winner James Horner (Titanic, Braveheart, Avatar, A Beautiful Mind), including more than half an hour of previously unreleased music. Also included are two cues that were not used in the final version of the film. To order the soundtrack for the Walt Disney Pictures production and for the full album details, visit the label’s official website, where you can listen to a couple of the tracks from the release.
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Weekly TV Music Roundup (October 7, 2012)
A couple of new shows are premiering on the major networks this week:
Premiering on Wednesday, October 10 is the superhero drama Arrow based on the DC Comics character Green Arrow, executive produced by Greg Berlanti, Mark Guggenheim and Andrew Kreisberg and starring Stephen Amell, Katie Cassidy, Susanna Thompson, Willa Holland and Colin Salmon. The show’s score is composed by Blake Neely (The Mentalist, Everwood, Brothers & Sisters). The composer recorded the music for the pilot with a full 80 piece orchestra at the Warner Bros. Eastwood Scoring Stage. Check out our previous article featuring a video from the sessions and to learn more about the show, which will air Wednesday nights on The CW.
William Ross Scoring Lifetime’s ‘Steel Magnolias’
William Ross has recently recorded his music for the Lifetime drama Steel Magnolias. The film is a remake of the 1989 feature written by Robert Harling, directed by Herbert Ross and starring Sally Field, Shirley MacLaine and Julia Roberts. The movie follows the lives and friendship of six Louisiana-based women who congregate regularly at Truvy’s beauty shop and stars Queen Latifah as M’Lynn, Alfre Woodard as Ouiser, Phylicia Rashad as Clairee, Jill Scott as Truvy, Adepero Oduye as Annelle and Condola Rashad as Shelby. Kenny Leon (A Raisin in the Sun) is directing the film and Sally Robinson (Iron Jawed Angels) has adapted the material for television.