Tom & Jerry/Cartoon Music...

[lowdown]

Nice little article here.

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Garry

Edited January 29, 2013 by lowdown

[keving]

That was fascinating, thank you.
I'm probably going to have to read the Daniel Goldmark book mentioned in the foot notes now.

[jalapeno]

You can get a lot of the recordings on import from the USA.

Apparently the LA Symphony used to use his recording sessions as technique work-outs - with all the atonal scales and 64th note sequences they'd come out from the studio wrecked and drenched in sweat.

Edited January 31, 2013 by jalapeno

[lowdown]

I believe also that one of the Violinists, when looking at the gig diary would get the horrors when the Tom & Jerry sessions came in....


Garry

[Bilbo]

I did a gig with a UK vibes player (Alan something - he polayed the original Play School theme apparently) who used to do sessions for these animators during a strike by US studio musicians and he said it was a lot harder to read than Stravinsky. Really atonal and rhythmically complicated.

[Bilbo]

Alan Grahame (hurrah for Google). Monstor be-bop vibes player.

[GonzoBass]

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...he said it was a lot harder to read than Stravinsky. Really atonal and rhythmically complicated.
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The closest I've ever got was being in the pit for Bernstein's "On the Town"
but I do recall commenting at the time that some of it was "like playing cartoon music"...