As promised, I'm going to give you dear readers the jump on the new Kritzerland limited edition title. Even though they've pretty much guessed what it is over at the film music site, I'd like to keep this info here until the official announcement next week, probably not till the end of the week, depending on how fast my web gal gets it on the site. You will not want to wait on this title. It's limited to 1000 copies only, and I can already tell you that half of them are spoken for by online stores. Given the composer and the rarity of what's on the CD, I'm hoping this will be a very quick sell out. You'll notice that Scent Of Mystery is sold out and no longer available at Kritzerland.
So, I'm really excited to announce that it's two Elmer Bernstein scores - the first is his incidental music to the play Laurette. Laurette was about the legendary actress Laurette Taylor, who was played by Judy Holliday. The cast also included Patrick O'Neal and Joan Hackett, and was produced by Alan Pakula, and directed by Jose Quintero. It closed out of town due to Miss Holiday's illness. The score is wonderful and is very interesting - Mr. Bernstein was making a transition in his style, and Laurette is the first score I've heard where you notice it. It very much looks forward to what he would do in To Kill A Mockingbird. It's scored for a chamber ensemble and the themes are wonderful. The second score is to a very obscure 80s film called Prince Jack, a film about the Kennedys. Both are short scores - Laurette runs about eighteen minutes, and Prince Jack runs twelve - that's what he wrote for the film - twelve minutes of music. The source material for Laurette wasn't in great shape, but the mastering guy did a pretty terrific job of fixing it up. I'm still struggling with the price of the CD - given that none of this music has ever been available, I'm tempted to charge our usual $19.98, despite the brevity of the CD. I've also toyed with the idea of charging $17.98, just as an acknowledgment that it's a shorter CD. That said, I have a CD here, a Varese club title (from way back when) that was full price and which runs nineteen minutes! Here's what I'll do though - no matter which price I end up charging, you dear readers will get it for $17.98. So, if you want to lock in that price pre the official announcement (once it hits the site, the price is whatever the price is), simply do the usual and go to paypal and pay 17.98 plus 3.75 shipping directly to kritzerland at adelphia dot net. Don't wait on this one.
