Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack [Soundtrack]

lemony snicket's a series of unfortunate events: original motion picture soundtrack [soundtrack]

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Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, film score
Composed by Thomas Newman
with Marisa Benedict, Lily Ho Chen, Linda Lipsett, Vahe Hayrikyan, John A. Reynolds, Karie Prescott, Leanne Becknell, Norman Ludwin, Pat [violin] Johnson, Brian D. A. O'Connor, George Doering, Christian Kollgaard, Alan Grunfeld, Frances Liu Wu, Ron Folsom, Suzie Katayama, Mark L. Adams, Tommy Johnson, John Scanlon, Carolyn Osborn, Charles Everett, Franklyn D'Antonio, Anatoly Rosinsky, Robert L. Becker, Mark Markman, Gayle Levant, Steve Tavaglione, Jim Self, Charles Loper, Yun Tang, Carrie Holzman-Little, Victoria Miskolczy, Mario De Leon, Susan Ranney, Armen Garabedian, Simon Oswald, Sid Page, David Duke, Kimiyo Takeya, Joel Derouin, Ken Kugler, Leslie Reed, Marilyn Baker, Dan Greco, Steven Richards, Dan Neufeld, Rick Baptist, Haim Shtrum, Steve Bell, Dan [cello] Smith, Heather Clark, Josefina Vargera, Danny Seidenberg, Barbra Proter, Walt Fowler, Jon Titmus, Dennis Karmazan, Steve Kujala, Harris Goldman, Roger Wilkie, John Mayhurst, Robert Matsuda, Charles Coker, Armen Ksajikian, Bruce Morgenthaler, Oliver Schroer, Donald McInnes, Miwako Watanabe, Matthew Funes, Horia Moroaica, Brian Dembow, Daniel Shindarov, Michael Fisher, Darius Campo, David [bass] Stone, Rick Cox, Larry Corbett, Ann Atkinson, Malcolm McNab, Carol Drake, Richard Treat, Dimitrie Leivici, Christina Soule, Bill Booth, Erika Duke Kirkpatrick, Razdan Kuyumjian, Gary Gray, Kenneth Yerke, Bill Bernstein, Diane Alancraig, Michael O'Donovan, Guido Lamal, Gerg Garabedian, Denyse Buffum, Janet Lakatos, Ralph Williams, Debra Price, Timothy Eckert, Harry Shirinian, Drew Dembowski, Carole Mukogawa, Natalie Leggett, Gary Kuo, Earl Madison, Stephen Erdody, Richard Feves, William Reichenbach, Michele Richards, Rick Gerding, Mari Tsumura, Irma Neumann, David H. Speltz, Margaret Wooten, Nico Carmine Abondolo, Lea Fiedler Steffans, Anne Karam, Guillermo Romero, Frank Marocco, Barbara Northcutt, Rose Corrigan, Joe Meyer
Conducted by Thomas Newman

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Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack [Soundtrack]

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Newman does it again!
anxiety, determination, melancholy and triumph
Quirky
Very good addition the Newman collection
A Good Dose of Newman's Magic

Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Thomas Newman
Manufacturer: Sony
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (Widescreen Edition)

ASIN: B00065GII2
Release Date: 2004-12-07

Tracks:

The Bad Beginning
Chez Olaf
The Baudelaire Orphan's
In Loco Parentis
Resilience
The Reptile Room
An Unpleasant Incident Involving A Train
Curdled Cave
Puttanesca
Curious Feeling Of Falling
Regarding The Incredibly Deadly Viper
The Marvelous Marriage
Lachrymose Ferry
Concerning Aunt Josephine
V.F.D.
The Wide Window
Cold As Ike
Hurricane Herman
Snaky Message
The Regrettable Episode Of The Leeches
Interlude With Sailboat
Verisimilitude
Loverly Spring
A Woeful Wedding
Attack Of The Hook-Handed Man
Taken By Surpreeze
One Last Look
The Letter That Never Came
Drive Away (End Title)

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The characters of Daniel Handler's popular children's book series spring to life in this playfully macabre screen adaptation from director Brad Silberling. Contemporary scoring master Thomas Newman may launch the musical proceedings with the brief, Disney-esque flourish of "The Bad Beginning," but the sound of a needle being brusquely dragged across that record brings us to the composer's true intent: a teasing romp through occasionally dark, rhythmically charged musical corners. Employing his patent take on post-modern impressionism to a greater degree than he did in Finding Nemo, Newman gives a decidedly contemporary spin to the oft-cliched concept of children's music. His score is a an inviting fusion of his tense, ever-inventive, ensemble studio concoctions and a Euro-Goth sensibility inspired by the film's visual sense. Alternately bright and brooding, with a surprise at nearly every turn (not the least of which is "Loverly Spring," a full reprise of the score's creepily saccharine opening song), Newman's score is yet another tribute to his restless, seemingly boundless creativity. --Jerry McCulley

Customer Reviews:

Newman does it again!.......2006-11-07

Thomas Newman is one of the most versatile composers of film scores around. His previous works have all been of a very high quality and with Lemony Snicket he certainly doesn't disappoint. Newman has the ability to create a varied score and yet make it entirely identifiable as his own style. Each piece of music fits its corresponding scene of the film like a glove. As unique as the cinematography is, so to is the music.
Newman succeeds in bringing across to the audience the emotion of the characters on the screen, and it's a testiment to his skill and talent that his music can be listened to apart from the film and still be enjoyed as much, if for other reasons.
The final three tracks are particularly special. 'One last look', 'The letter that never came' and 'Drive away' will, I'm sure, take you back to the touching final scene in the burnt out Beaudelaire mansion.
Happy listening to this very special work.

anxiety, determination, melancholy and triumph.......2006-10-31

This music is very emotionally expressive. I really know nothing about music so I won't even try to give an educated review. What I can say is that I and my children LOVE listening to this music. We happen to be fans of the books and the movie, but you don't really need to have experienced these things to enjoy the music. The music paints its own landscape well.

Quirky.......2006-06-20

I'm not very familiar with Thomas Newman's work. I've seen Finding Nemo, but I can't remember the music from it, and I haven't seen any other films with music that he composed. However, if all of Newman's work is of the same standard as this soundtrack, I'd definitely want to listen to more.

One word came into my head when listening for the first time: quirky. I'm not even sure what that word means, but it sounds like the right word to describe the soundtrack: out of the ordinary, wacky, weird, original, wonderful, unexpected, delightful.

It will definitely bring out the child in you...

Very good addition the Newman collection.......2006-03-26

A score like Lemony Snicket is a fairly unique project for Thomas Newman - I've become so used to seeing his name of dramas that his more recent scores for films like "Finding Nemo" and this one were surprising, to say the least. Speaking of Finding Nemo, it's not hard to draw the similarities between them. Lemony Snicket does indeed carry over some of the technique used in Finding Nemo, but because of the differences in the story they tell, you won't be confusing the two easily. Appropriately, Newman uses his off-beat, wacky style more then his heavy dramatic scoring, though they do make an appearance near the end of album. With a total of 29 tracks, Lemony Snicket is definitely a fun ride through the merry world of Thomas Newman we have all come to love.

After a false opening at the beginning of the score, painting a happy-go-lucky image in our minds (presented in full later in the album), the beginning cue, "The Bad Beginning" revels in it's melancholy undercurrent. The main theme for the three children, first presented in "The Baudelaire Orphans", is a delicate melody on music box, which repeats later in "VFD". We get a taste of a nice and exotic outbreak in "The Retile Room", featuring drenched string stacattos over a bed of light percussion. Truly a showcase of Newman's unique musical styles. We can, of course, find Newman's vibe-loving in "Interlude with Sailboat", a mellow little cue featuring a breathy flute over creaking noises and of course, the vibraphones. The highlight of the album presents itself in the cue which represents the emotional climax of the film, "Letter that Never Came", and appropriately conveyed in the music. The typical-for-Newman piano theme introduced in "Resilience" reappears and is taken up by soaring strings, tugging (very effectively, I might say), at the heartstrings. The strings by Newman and his orchestrator Thomas Pasatieri are, as they always are, a delight to hear. Unlike the typical lush sound of modern hollywood string-wash, Newman's strings are always ethereal, clear and beautiful, and "The Letter that Never Came" uses them to full effect.

It's hard for me to find much negatives about the score. It may be a bit off-putting to those used to traditional orchestral fare, but I don't see how that should stop you. Lemony Snicket is an admirable addition to the Newman collection, featuring some great representation of characters as well as a great listening experience. Definitely reccomended to all but the most close-minded of music listeners.

-prasanth1111@gmail.com

A Good Dose of Newman's Magic.......2006-03-14

This is an incredibly unique and brilliant work by Thomas Newman. I own several of his scores, and this one holds up VERY well! It is full of strange sounds, atmospheric clicks and whistles, and occasionally very "unfortunate" sounding orchestra sections.

If you have heard Newman before, and are already in love with his sense of style, buy this. If not, I reccomend starting with Meet Joe Black, and then buy this. You will love it!

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