Schiit Happened: The Story of the World's Most Improbable Start-Up

[corndog71]

More of a studio band, maybe? Then again by '86 Ocasek was being distracted by Paulina Porizhkova....

She still looks amazing.

 

[Syan25]

And this is greatness too:

 

[tincanear]

What orchestra is this? Would love to get the recording of this performance. One of my favorite symphonies.

Might be a bit before its available
https://redwoodsymphony.org/cds-and-recordings/

 

[Paladin79]

I've always enjoyed this album because it's a modern recording with better SQ than the original recordings.

But also the performances are really agile and dynamic. Especially the North By Northwest prelude.

Also the Taxi Driver suite is just lovely.

Taxi Driver is my favorite Herrmann film score. The saxophone, the starkness and desolation.

 

[Paladin79]

And this is greatness too:

Absolutely, I demoed some Morricone for a friend today and she adored it. Mostly Once Upon a Time in America but I included the West as well.

 

[Ripper2860]

Once Upon a Time In America is one of my all-time favorite movies.

 

[Lavcat]

^ This. Long, long been one of my reference LPs… as in for at least 35 years now. Exquisitely well recorded, amazing soundstage… dynamics are incredible. I love the performance, and I’m also a huge fan of the CSO “sound” (e.g. my favorite Dvorak’s 9th is with Giulini on DG… Not as well/transparently recorded as the RCA/Scheherazade, but the emotion that Reiner can bring out from many of my favorite Romantic Era composers performance-wise just thrills me to this day.

My one copy of Scheherazade is Monteux with the LSO on RCA. Took me close to an hour to find it. I doubt I'd listened to the album in over fifty years. Now I see the album is available on Amazon for $212.

Part of the problem is that I have three or four hundred LP's in pseudo random order, and they are not easy to access nor to read the labels. In the same vein my CD's are boxed up waiting for the assembly of CD storage shelves that I've had for a year still in their shipping carton.

 

[Raptor34]

Might be a bit before its available
https://redwoodsymphony.org/cds-and-recordings/

Thanks I book marked their site and will keep an eye out for it.

 

[Syan25]

Taxi Driver is my favorite Herrmann film score. The saxophone, the starkness and desolation.

It is haunting. Austere and beautifully written.

 

[Lavcat]

Adding dither on playback also increases low level micro detail, by pushing the audio data out of the noise floor of the digital data. I used dither when prepping a client's CD-R master, and it always audibly improved playback quality.

Were you suggesting adding dither when ripping at 16 bits or at higher bit depths?

 

[Syan25]

Once Upon a Time In America is one of my all-time favorite movies.

Fonda as a villain. It's awesome.

 

[Paladin79]

It is haunting. Austere and beautifully written.

Your knowledge far exceeds my own.

 

[Syan25]

Your knowledge far exceeds my own.

I'm getting more into older films. John Ford, John Huston movies. I'm pretty much got most of Hitchcock films. I've got pretty much all Leone's too.

The thing is movies these days rarely have great themes and tunes anymore. I think of Doctor Zhivago etc..

Once we lose John Williams, I wonder who will take on the mantle of that kind of film score.

Most movies now - hard to remember the soundtrack afterwards...

 

[Paladin79]

Fonda as a villain. It's awesome.

Fonda was in the “West” DeNiro and James Woods were in “America” both preceded by Once Upon a Time in

 

[Paladin79]

I'm getting more into older films. John Ford, John Huston movies. I'm pretty much got most of Hitchcock films. I've got pretty much all Leone's too.

The thing is movies these days rarely have great themes and tunes anymore. I think of Doctor Zhivago etc..

Once we lose John Williams, I wonder who will take on the mantle of that kind of film score.

Most movies now - hard to remember the soundtrack afterwards...

We should not forget Maurice Jarre, Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago et alia.