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Hi! Could you help, what Orchestra performs in Film Spider-Man and Spider-Man2.
Thank’sI dunno about the 1st movie but the 2nd is the Hollywood Symphony Orchestra, or something along the lines of that title.
FFC
Not to sound picky, but I THINK you mean the Hollywood Film Orchestra. Not totally adamant, though. Ryan or someone’d know, I’m sure.
Your Probably right “The J”, i really didn’t get a chance to look into the Spider-Man 2 Score Album to look for accuracy, but do you know the orchestra for the first one?
FFC
Hollywood Studio Symphony Orchestra — an orchestra comprised of Union or “session” musicians in Los Angeles. Labels get reduced re-use fees/and or can release longer albums if they credit the HSSO and each musician in the CD booklet.
Ryan
Cool
Violins (30), violas (14), cellos (14), double basses (
, flutes (3), oboes (2), clarinets (3), bassoons (3), horns (12), trumpets (4), trombones (6), tubas (2), percussion (5), timpani, harps (2), piano, EVILooks like Danny likes horns.
:o)Blunt
3 bassoons?! Dear god – in that case, I’d say he likes the double reeds, too!
-E
One of them must of doubled on the Contra Basson, because I know I heard it.
But then again I hear things.
Nat
Danny loves low. that’s it. It’s in Ed. Sciss. it’s in Beetlejuice, it’s in Sleepy, and a whole ton of other stuff. He finds it “fun”, to quote him. Infact, so do I. So do all of us, I guess – that’s why we’re here. But hey, even for danny… 12 horns!? Woah!
>¦:o)
The JWell, not every player plays on the every day due to the needs of the cue and the musicians availabilty, etc. It could be that there are only a few contra bassoon parts or horn parts, but 12 people wound up playing them throughout the sessions.
Drat. You spoilsport!! You mean the one occasion where it might have been possible for us to define something CONCRETE about Danny’s scoring, we have to dismiss it?!?! I realise (and I’m sure other do as well) that you don’t get all players performing at once all the time, but it would reeally have “said” something if we knew that 12 horn players were required.
Still, I’m leaning towards feeling that the score “did” require 12 horn parts, since we don’t see 4 oboes or 7 clarinets. Does anyone know much about the unions and whether a contracted player would have to stay or be on call for the complete score?
Yes, I’d say 3 bassoons at least to cover the contra part, just as I’d guess a bass clarinet and piccolo might be implied also – at the same time all 3 players might double on both instruments. We woodwind players are so flexible. :o) I’d love to see violinists and cellists share parts. That’d confuse us!
Blunt
“all 3 players might double on both instruments”
– that might sound confusing. What I mean is that 3 flute players could all be playing piccolo at some point, etc… although the sound of three piccolos takes it way too far. Have you heard ONE piccolo play in tune? ;o) No, I was thinking of Herrmannesque bass clarinets, basset horns and such… Now I’m waffling…
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> I can tell you for a fact that they often don’t. Different musicians fill the same chair on different days. Of course, the composers / music producers like to keep as much continuity as possible, but the scheduling won’t always permit for that.
Ah well, perhaps the only way of doing this is to wait for the DVD to come out and hope for a video clip from the recording sessions. I won’t hold my breath…
Blunt
With all the issues about the music in Spider-Man 2, I doubt that there will be a score featurette on the dvd…
with all the issues about the music in Spider-Man 2, there BETTER be a score featurette on the DVD.
What would the featurette be called? “The Composer Got F&@#ed: Inside The Music Of Spider-Man 2?”
Heheh. That would be appropriate.
haha niice
“With all the issues about the music in Spider-Man 2, I doubt that there will be a score featurette on the dvd…”
Actually, it’s not quite as hopeless as you might imagine from *that* point of view. The footage and interviews will have been made during the recording process. Indeed, the “official” Spidy mag of.. last month?.. included a lengthy interview with him. Only to be read with a pinch of irony!!
Blunt
um, The Danny Elfman Orchestra
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