El Capitan Intro Music
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Next time I see a movie there I'll have to make a recording. It makes a screening of any movie there seem more like a celebration of the film then just a movie!
For those of you who haven't been to a screening there, each movie is preceded by a live organist playing on the wurlitzer organ. When he's done, he and the organ descend into the floor of the stage and the theatre sound system begins to play the above mentioned music. As this music is played, the theatre transforms through a display of colored lights flooding the sides of the venue while a series of curtains rise and open. The first curtain lifted reveals a second curtain which has an art deco design on it featuring a couple dancing, a sun shaped spotlight focuses on them. Once that curtain is lifted, a metallic shimmering curtain is revaled. As the music swells to its end, this curtain opens and finally reveals the movie screen. It's all really over the top.
...I love it!
For those of you who haven't been to a screening there, each movie is preceded by a live organist playing on the wurlitzer organ. When he's done, he and the organ descend into the floor of the stage and the theatre sound system begins to play the above mentioned music. As this music is played, the theatre transforms through a display of colored lights flooding the sides of the venue while a series of curtains rise and open. The first curtain lifted reveals a second curtain which has an art deco design on it featuring a couple dancing, a sun shaped spotlight focuses on them. Once that curtain is lifted, a metallic shimmering curtain is revaled. As the music swells to its end, this curtain opens and finally reveals the movie screen. It's all really over the top.
...I love it!
Here are a few pages featuring sample clips from Broughton's score:
FANTASTIC JOURNEY [Telarc Records]
Link to Telarc's CD page
Direct link to RealAudio sample
THE BOY WHO COULD FLY [from Bruce Broughton's site]
Link to page
First column, fourth selection
THE BOY WHO COULD FLY (promo) [Percepto Records]
Link to page
Direct link to mp3 sample of track 1
The FANTASTIC JOURNEY sample is probably the best of the three, but the main theme can be heard in all three samples.
I am very happy to report that the music is indeed from the Boy Who Could Fly.
The CD insert says:
"The Magical Quality of Bruce Broughton's score has also helped it to fly, apart from the movie. Eric's theme has been the curtain-raiser at Disney's gloriiously restored El Capitan theater in Hollywood since 1991."
The CD set me back $30.00 since it is exremely hard to find but was well worth the price. In case you're interested, its sometimes available on EBAY. There's a 1986 cd release and a 2001 release which is the one I purchased which includes the track played at the El Capitan.
-Monorail1
The CD insert says:
"The Magical Quality of Bruce Broughton's score has also helped it to fly, apart from the movie. Eric's theme has been the curtain-raiser at Disney's gloriiously restored El Capitan theater in Hollywood since 1991."
The CD set me back $30.00 since it is exremely hard to find but was well worth the price. In case you're interested, its sometimes available on EBAY. There's a 1986 cd release and a 2001 release which is the one I purchased which includes the track played at the El Capitan.
-Monorail1
Dr. Know
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Exactly which track is played at the El Capitan theatre? For some reason, I always assumed it was the Kunzel re-recording. I doubt it is from the Percepto (2001) release, because that consists of material from the original recording sessions that was not available during the early '90s. At the El Capitan they would have had to use either a track from the Varese cd, which was itself a re-recording conducted by Bruce Broughton, or the track entitled "End Title from The Boy Who Could Fly" from Kunzel's 'Fantastic Journey' compilation on Telarc, which came out in 1990.
Jim
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