Andre Previn - The Way West Original Soundtrack (CD)

Soundtrack of The Way West by Bronislaw Kaper conducted by Andre PrevinBruce Eder writes: 'Bronislaw Kaper's music for The Way West (1967) was just about the last classic Western movie score ever written that was done in a broad, epic style without any sense of irony until John Barry's music for Dances with Wolves appeared two decades later.' But Kaper's music comes from an even older tradition, dating to Dimitri Tiomkin's score for Red River (1948) and, in its use of choral music and folk melodies, to a theatrical tradition decades older than that, and the influence of such figures as Aaron Copland and Roy Harris. The Polish-born Kaper had scored a handful of Westerns in the previous decade and, perhaps recognizing the nature of time, mortality, and public taste, understood that The Way West might well be his last chance to deal with the American West in musical terms.As the composer had no training at the podium, the score is conducted by André Previn, in one of his very last appear