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Thursday, February 10, 2005 - 8:37pmSanction this postReply
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Marcus -- I just watched this again the other day, and I remember thinking that it was a pretty good film, but that the soundtrack was mediocre.  I can't imagine why anyone would want to buy a CD of the soundtrack.

 - Jason


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Thursday, February 10, 2005 - 10:51pmSanction this postReply
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I just got an image of Ayn Rand singing "Proud Mary", Tina Turner style... And can you picture her being one of the female dancers in Big Daddy Kane's "Big Ole Butt"? 

These images, they haunt me; I really do need a lobotomy.


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Friday, February 11, 2005 - 4:00amSanction this postReply
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1. Main Title: ";A Sense of Life"; (Narration by Sharon Gless)    
2. Family, Youth and Independence    
3. An Adult Entity    
4. ";Canadian Capers"; (Gus Chandler, Bert White and Henry Cohen)    
5. Cyrus    
6. Revolution, Victor Hugo and God    
7. A Door Opening    
8. Aristotle and Plato    
9. Russia as Hell    
10. A heart Skipping Beats    
11. Arrival in America, Movies and DeMille    
12. Her Ideal Face: Frank O'Connor    
13. ";Benevolent Inevitability";    
14. ";Writing Engine";    
15. RKO and the Movie Diary    
16. IDEAL: ";The Man on the Rock"; (Kay Gonda performed by Janne Peters)    
17. The Match King    
18. WOMAN ON TRIAL    
19. WE THE LIVING    
20. Permission Denied, ANTHEM and the Birth of THE FOUNTAINHEAD    
21. Frank Lloyd Wright    
22. H.U.A.C.: ";A Dubious Undertaking"; (Testimony: Congressman John McDowell and Ayn Rand)    
23. THE FOUNTAINHEAD: Novel to Film    
24. Return to New York: Ayn and Frank's Theme    
25. ATLAS SHRUGGED: ";The Feminine Roark";    
26. America and ";The Problem of Universals";    
27. Non-fiction: Marilyn Monroe, Racism, Apollo 11    
28. Nora    
29. Man at his Best (Narration by Sharon Gless), End Credits, ";Will O' the Wisp"; (Music by Herbert Kurster)


Love the title names ;-)

Does anyone have a clue what "Canadian Capers" could be about? The Brandens perhaps?

(Edited by Marcus Bachler on 2/11, 4:11am)


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Friday, February 11, 2005 - 6:28amSanction this postReply
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"Canadian Capers" was one of her favourite pieces of tiddlywink music. It was a late piece of ragtime, as I recall. If you want to listen to this and other similar stuff, there used to be a site run by a chap with the unlikely name of 'Dismuke' who had a stack of AR's tiddlywink music online in streaming sound - it may still be available of you search.

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Friday, February 11, 2005 - 9:55amSanction this postReply
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Thanks for that Peter.

I will have to check it out :-)

I can't work out if this soundtrack is all music or not apart from the two Sharon Gless narration tracks?

How can you have a piece of music called the following?

 H.U.A.C.: ";A Dubious Undertaking"; (Testimony: Congressman John McDowell and Ayn Rand)


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Friday, February 11, 2005 - 10:30amSanction this postReply
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Marcus,

I'm looking forward to track 26: America and "The Problem of Universals" sounds like it should have some catchy lyrics.

For some reason I have the image of IOE done to Gregorian chant.

Bill


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Friday, February 11, 2005 - 4:28pmSanction this postReply
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Here's the site Peter referred to: music with an Ayn Rand connection:

http://dismuke.org/aynrand/selections.html

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Friday, February 11, 2005 - 4:29pmSanction this postReply
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I just found this description of the CD........

"This CD soundtrack from the feature documentary, Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life, features Jeff Britting’s original music from the film, Ayn Rand’s testimony before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, excerpts of narration by Sharon Gless, and dialogue from Ayn Rand’s play Ideal (performed by Janne Peters).
 
This unique soundtrack also contains two of Ayn Rand’s favorite “tiddlywink” pieces from her private record collection: Canadian Capers and Will o’ the Wisp."

 
 


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Saturday, February 12, 2005 - 8:30amSanction this postReply
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Many thanks, Joe - that was a nice tour.... I myself have John McCormack singing 'Tipperary' on an old one-sided clay...... loved the tune..... and, of course, all of Rach, including three LP's of piano rolls of his recording his and others' works... was indeed a good morning spent listening to those tunes.....

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