Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-01-19 (Sunday)

BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:

On Jan 21, 2025 at 10:07:26 AM PST, Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:

. . .

By this point in the movie series Fleming was long dead and they weren't
really "adapting" the books, they were using them as inspiration for
their own scripts/stories.

During Fleming's lifetime too! Fleming's plot from the Goldfinger novel
wasn't used. The novel's scheme by Goldfinger was poorly thought out.

"Do you expect me to talk?"

"No, Mr. Bond. I expect you to die."

Last month I played lead trumpet in an orchestra concert of famous songs from
film and one of the pieces on the menu was GOLDFINGER. They hired a woman who
did a pretty good impression of Shirley Bassey. I was just stoked to be able
to do the musical equivalent of an actor chewing the scenery with the trumpet
part. You don't often get to combine falling glisses and wah-wah mutes in such
an over-the-top way. In any other piece, the conductor would be like, "We need
less of that." In this one, it's "More. No, even more."

Hahahahahahaha

Can't get too brassy.

The first four bars are the best:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6D1nK7q2i8I

That's wonderful! Glad you have the time to do these things now.

Had you previously engraved this score?