Lee Holdridge: YOUNG HARRY HOUDINI: Music From The Original Score
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BSX DIGITAL presents a premiere release of music from the original score to YOUNG HARRY HOUDINI, featuring music composed by Lee Holdridge (SPLASH, THE BEASTMASTER, OLD GRINGO), for the 1999 dramatic comedy directed by Joyce Chopra, written by Shelley Fraser Mickle and David J. Hill, starring Mary McDonnell, William Russ, Jack Coleman, Erik von Detten, Camilla Belle, Hayden Tank, Stephen Meadows and Tippi Hedren.
Airing on television in March 1987 as part of THE MAGICAL WORLD OF DISNEY, YOUNG HARRY HOUDINI was directed by James Orr, written by Orr and Jim Cruickshank, starring Wil Wheaton, Jeffrey DeMunn, Kerri Green, Barry Corbin, Roy Dotrice, J. Reuben Silverbird, Rossie Harris, José Ferrer, Phillip Brock, Michael Alldredge, Sean McClory and Lee de Broux.
YOUNG HARRY HOUDINI follows 16-year-old Ehrich Weiss (Wheaton) as he pursues a dream that doesn’t include following his father’s desire that he join the family’s locksmith business. Ehrich makes the painful decision to leave his family, including his brother/best friend, perhaps never to see them again. He joins a circus where the ringleader, Dr. Tybalt Grimaldi (Ferrer), becomes a new father figure, and a silent Native American medicine man his mentor. Ehrich also finds not only love but the ability to look within for his true talent that leads him to eventually become the greatest magician in the world with a new name... Harry Houdini.
Lee Holdridge was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on March 3, 1944, and began his musical career studying violin with Hugo Mariani after his family moved to Costa Rica. Finishing high school in Boston, he went on to study composition with Nicholas Flagello and Stephen Sondheim in New York. There, he began to explore many compositional styles — for theatrical stage, chamber, rock, and underscoring short films — before coming to the attention of singer Neil Diamond.After collaborating on several hit albums, Diamond asked Holdridge to assist in creating the Grammy Award-winning score for JONATHAN LIVINGSTON SEAGULL (1973). That same year, he also created music for the teen love story JEREMY.
Holdridge soon became an in-demand composer, scoring such popular films as BEASTMASTER (1982), MR. MOM (1983), SPLASH (1984), OLD GRINGO (1989), INTO THIN AIR: DEATH ON EVEREST (1997), and INTO THE ARMS OF STRANGERS: STORIES OF THE KINDERTRANSPORT (2000). For television, he provided music for the mini-series EAST OF EDEN (1981), ATOMIC TRAIN (1999), 10.5 (2004), and established the musical formats for MOONLIGHTING (1985-89) and BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (1987-89).
BSX Digital presents the premiere release of YOUNG HARRY HOUDINI, featuring music composed and conducted by Lee Holdridge. The music has been remastered by James Nelson at Digital Outland.
01. Opening Titles (0:43)
02. The Chinese Water Torture Trick (4:38)
03. The Most Fantastic Story You Will Ever Hear / Race To See The
Great Merlin /Harry Watches The Great Merlin Perform (4:41)
04. Harry Hops A Train Out of Appleton (3:33)
05. Harry Picks Lance's Handcuffs / Foot Chase / Harry and Lance
Say Goodbye / On The Road With Grimaldi (3:38)
06. Campfire Chat / The Wolf and The Bear / Calpernia Crying (6:08)
07. Altering The Trick / Dangling Over A Cliff / The Story of The Chosen One /
The Rattlesnake (6:08)
08. Lessons In Imagination [A-The Mountains / B-Flight / C-The Village] (7:25)
09. Choose The Right Path / Flashback Montage /
It All Seemed So Real / Ending (5:38)
10. End Credits (0:51)
11. Calliope Source (4:12)
Total Time: 48:05
