CBS COLLECTION 072 UCLA - Film Score Rundowns

amongst members and some forums—that the acronym of SPFM actually now stood for
the Society for the Prevention of Film Music preservation and research!
Incidentally, there was a September 16, 1990 Los Angeles Times article on
SPFM. Here’s the link:
http://articles.latimes.com/1990-09-16/entertainment/ca-1032_1_film-music
To conclude my general commentary, I will paste my old 2003 Talking Herrmann
post recording FMS:
TALKING HERRMANN:
http://herrmann.uib.no/talking/view.cgi?forum=thGeneral&topic=1335
“Film Music society CD finally arrived”
[Topic #1335]
17 Apr 2003, 01:26 GMT
[Start of extended quote] :
“I posted some of my beefs about even the current incarnation of the Society at:
http://herrmann.uib.no/talking/view.cgi?forum=thGeneral&topic=1209
“I think the intention and ideal is good. However, the implementation of those
ideals leaves me a bit under-whelmed so far at least. I remember I must've tried at least
seven or eight times to get on the Society phone to join up. I had my credit card ready
each time but all I ever got was that annoying tape machine message instead of getting
someone "live." I needed to have some questions answered before I committed my hardearned
money. I remember Ed lamenting about how he never received replies after
several months about his membership (where is the cd? when is it coming out? Etc.)
There is a pronounced lack of timely communication with even this current Society. It is
understandable of course if this is a purely voluntary endeavor (nobody volunteering to
donate time to answer phone calls and reply in a timely manner to emails). But after my
repeated attempts, I simply gave up. Alan just posted above about the same frustration
with the lack of communication.
“Now: On a positive note, I think the Society deserves support for its ideals. I am
willing to give it a chance. I suggest (and I discussed this twice before) quite strongly that
if the Society is serious about getting new blood and support, and is sincere about
wanting to really reach out to people, that they initiate a Society online discussion board
(like Talking Herrmann, or Filmus-L, or the Film Score Monthly Message Board). Then
there would be an immediate rush of life and timely information. Of course it would help
is some individuals in the Society would contribute to posts of information, replied to
gripes, etc. The old Society board members never posted on Talking Herrmann, say, and
only a few very rarely (Steve Fry comes to mind) contributed on Filmus-L……But please
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