Aaron Copland conducts his musical score for the 1961 movie "Something Wild".
TRACKS
1. New York Profile 2:49
2. Park At Night 1:27
3. Subway Jam 2:16
4. Marry Ann Resigned 2:01
5. Incarceration And Nightmares 7:07
6. Escape Through The City 7:24
7. Love Music 1:58
8. Walk Downtown 3:11
9. Episode On The Bridge 4:52
10. Mother Alone 0:58
11. Reunion 1:04
I saw Something Wild on TV, it must have been on Saturday Night At The Movies, back when network TV showed good to great movies. I remember the music being extremely effective in the context of the movie which had a really strange and disturbing plot. We're going way back, though. I haven't seen it in more than 50 years.
Some recent comments on IMDB judge it by contemporary standards, I'm not going to argue that that's inappropriate, though I don't remember anyone judging it by those standards in the early 1960s. I've got no problem with judging movies by contemporary standards, we're alive now and things change. Movies stay the same. That changes nothing about the music, which is fine music on its own. By the standard of movie music, it's on the highest level.
Some of the thematic material showed up later in the decade when Copland wrote his Duo for Flute and Piano. But the duo hadn't been written yet, or even commissioned when the film score was written.
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