Bicentennial Man (1999) (Music By James Horner )

Product Summary Label: Sony Classics UPC: 00696998903821 Release Date: 12/21/1999 Buy.com Sku: 60374749 Item#: M2CXYL Buy.com Sales Rank: 25050 Format:  CD Song Listing Disc 1 Song Title Sample 1. Machine Age, The ~ Original Soundtrack 2. Special Delivery ~ Original Soundtrack 3. Magic Spirit, The ~ Original Soundtrack 4. Gift For Little Miss, A ~ Original Soundtrack 5. Mechanical Love ~ Original Soundtrack 6. Wearing Clothes For The First Time ~ Original Soundtrack 7. Wedding, The ~ Original Soundtrack 8. Passage Of Time, A Changing Of Seasons, The ~ Original Soundtrack 9. Search For Another, The ~ Original Soundtrack 10. Transformed ~ Original Soundtrack 11. Emotions ~ Original Soundtrack 12. New Nervous System, A ~ Original Soundtrack 13. Truer Love, A ~ Original Soundtrack 14. Petition Denied ~ Original Soundtrack 15. Growing Old ~ Original Soundtrack 16. Gift Of Mortality, The ~ Original Soundtrack 17. Then You Look At Me - Celine Dion ~ Original Soundtrack   Album Notes and Credits Notes & Personnel Info Original score composed by James Horner. Recorded at TODD-AO Scoring Stage, Studio City, California. Audio Mixer: Simon Rhodes. Recording information: Todd-AO Scoring Stage, Studio C. The original soundtrack to Chris Columbus' Bicentennial Man reunites composer James Horner with singer Celine Dion, the dynamic duo that made the Titanic soundtrack a huge success. Horner's evocative score and Dion's single "Then You Look at Me" reflect the film's bittersweet tale of a robot's ambition to become human over the course of two centuries. Though it may not be as popular a soundtrack as Titanic, Bicentennial Man is a satisfying, appropriate album of film music. ~ Heather Phares An end title song sung by Celine Dion notwithstanding, TITANIC composer Horner's orchestral score for this Robin Williams vehicle (based on a story by sci-fi great Isaac Asimov) has very little in common with his Oscar-winning aquatic music. BICENTENNIAL MAN is more explicitly modernist (translation: an occasional dissonance can be heard), and the Celtic melodies are dispensed with, although the overall tone of the score is serenely romantic. Actually, this harks back to some of Horner's earlier music; as a film composer, he cut his teeth on sci-fi flicks like BATTLE BEYOND THE STARS and STAR TREK II, and you can hear elements of those earlier works here. Interestingly, the main title--"The Machine Age"--is the wittiest and least characteristic bit of the score, with deliberate echoes of avant-garde composer George Antheil's Jazz Age Twenties masterwork "Ballet Mechanique (by the '50s, of course, Antheil himself wound up in Hollywood doing movie scores). Producer: James Horner; Simon Franglen; Simon Rhodes Engineer: Simon Rhodes   Associated Artists and Works California Dreams Original Soundtrack Original Soundtrack   Technical Info Release Date : 12/21/1999 Original Release Date : 1999 Catalog ID : 89038 Label : Sony Music Distribution (USA) Number of Discs : 1 Runtime : 66m : 19s Studio/Live : Studio Mono/Stereo : Stereo SPAR Code : n/a UPC : 00696998903821    Product Image