Valentine's Day, Sunday, February 14, 2010 at 10:20 am

Mer,”…certain passages of it, I mean. I think its effectiveness lies in its sparseinstrumentation, if you know what I mean…economy without thinness. I like the distanteffects from muted instruments and from the correct combination of instruments. Best ofall, the fact that it is really original music. You can’t lay your finger on any singlecomposer, even Debussy.The Scherzo, as you say, is a successful “tour de force.” Is it a more ingenious“Cockaigne?”Jim FassettNote that it appears like one “t” at the end of his name, but I think he simply wrote itfast and in an incomplete manner and then boldly crossed those t’s.___________________________________________________________________________________________________________talkingherrmann mailing list********************************10-19-09:Talking Herrmann: Box 68 UCSB 'Joy in the Morning'New topic by: Bill Wrobel ()______________________________________________________________________I also looked at the contents of Box 68 ("Miscellaneous Short Scores") at UCSB lastFriday. In the first folder were various non-Herrmann cues for A Hatful of Rain. Thisincluded "Don't Get Around Much Anymore" that utilized trumpets, trombones, saxes,etc. Next was the Convoy main title. I believe I already have that image in my PhotoTour. Next was the "Twice As Tall" song from JTTCOTE.Next in Folder 4 are the Joy in the Morning short score cues (the full score written byHerrmann is apparently lost forever). Immediately below is the image of "Bittersweet," acue I found particularly lovely:{Image http://img193.imageshack.us/img193/5555/r13am.jpgNext are Man Who Knew Too Much materials. This includes the "Storm CloudCantata" but also, surprisingly, xeroxes of most of the original score! Such weredefinitely not available when I researched UCSB in the past. These xeroxes are newadditions, copies of what I later saw some years ago at Paramount Music Library. Thefull score of the Main Title was not available in the copy I researched then but I was toldthe autograph version was safely held in another location.127