Justine [soundtrack]

Jerry Goldsmith - Justine [soundtrack]

Following Goldsmith's Freud soundtrack posted earlier this week, here's another one of Goldsmith's soundtracks which goes in a different direction musically.

From the liner notes:

Relax - ready for exotic dreams? "Justine" is ready to take you on a personal tour of Arabian - Egyptian, if you will - nights. Tour director is Jerry Goldsmith, the super-talented young tunesmith who composed, arranged and conducted the score for this fabulous movie, and who brings this album to you. He has provided one of the most spellbinding musical scores and albums to come out of Hollywood or any international film studio in a long time. Jerry has not provided simply mood music for a movie, but he has created music making a mood - many moods. These new, rich combinations of sounds are guaranteed to dispel any worldly worries as the listener is wafted to ports of sensual call. Here, for a change is music you can enjoy effortlessly without having to work at it; without having to wonder what it is or what it should say.

The youth of Jerry Goldsmith is not to be confused with his ability. He already has four Oscar nominations for his film scores on "Sand Pebbles," "Patch of Blue," "Freud" and "Planet of the Apes." And he has Emmy nominations for "Thriller" and "Man From UNCLE." There is no phase of music with which he is not familiar. And he proves it in this tale of Egypt, 1938 by an amazing mixture of instruments ranging from the richness of 16 violins, six violas, as many celli, recorder, auto harp to the most interesting combination of old and new - an electric sitar.

"Justine" combines the romantic, Biblical background of Egypt, cast in a semi-modern continental story. The film combines the top talents of movie-making, from a book which required a decade from the purchase of the Lawrence Durrell classic novel to the eventual filming. It remained for writers Lawrence Marcus and Ivan Moffatt working separately to come up with the screenplay true to the mood of author Durrell. For "Justine" is described by the author as "An investigation of modern love." Such love forms as incest, homosexuality, adultery, marital, patriotic and platonic are part of the story. They are also represented in the treatment given the music by Jerry Goldsmith.

Side One

1. Justine {2:29}

2. The School {3:31}

3. The Farm {3:08}

4. Melissa {1:50}

5. Alexandria {1:32}

6. Carnival Happening {2:30}

Side Two

1. Melissa & Darley {1:59}

2. Samba Chica {1:40}

3. The Beach {2:50}

4. The Telescope {1:46}

5. Ambush {1:11}

6. End Titles {2:32}

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