[Fmpro] composed for film or conert hall

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In a message dated 7/27/2008 5:04:01 AM Pacific Daylight Time,  
fmpro-request at nxport.com writes:

Occasionally when I listen to particularly good film score, I wonder  what 
that music would have been like and where the composer would have taken  it had 
it had not been written to fit a scene in a movie.  You have to  credit the 
film for being both the creative reason for the score as well as  the blueprint 
of the form it takes.


Although it might be speculation, I think there are some  compositions that 
have gone both ways as examples of music in both  worlds.
 
Several great film scores have been reworked by their composers for  the 
orchestral world, whether as suites or full symphonies or  concerti.
 
And vice versa.
 
Rozsa's Violin Concerto became the basis for his score to   Billy Wilder's 
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes.
 
At least one of Bernard Herrmann's smaller pieces became the  basis of some 
parts of his score to Hitchcock's Psycho.
 
In the other direction we have as examples
 
Korngold's music for a few WB films of the 30s such as The Prince  and The 
Pauper ending up as the basis for his Violin Concerto.
 
Vaughan-Williams's score to Scott of the Antarctic ending up as his  Sinfonia 
Antarctica, sym #7.
 
Rozsa's core to Spellbound ending up as a piano concerto, his score  to 
Jungle Book ending up as a symphonic suite, symphonic suites made from John  
Williams's Star Wars and Close Encounters.  There are many others, many of  which 
are suites of the scores arranged for the concert hall or embellished into  a 
symphony or concerto for concert hall.
 
Whether or not the other example would have been the same had its  origins 
been in that particular venue is speculation.
 
It is not easy to say what a particular piece of music for a film  would have 
been like had it been composed for concert hall and vice  versa.
 
You may as well ask how different the Nutcracker would have been  had 
Tchaikovsky not composed it as a ballet, the same for so many other  classical 
compositions, including the Rite of Spring, Swan Lake, and  others.
 
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