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Lady Magdalene's 2009


About the Album: All the music from the new feature film, Lady Magdalene's, on two CD's. This musical score spans classical to original rock, jazz, gospel, and pop songs! Eleven new songs by new artists including three original songs performed by Star Trek's original Uhura and Duke Ellington discovery, Nichelle Nichols!

The two-disc soundtrack includes the complete movie score and all songs played in the movie but played at full length -- plus bonus tracks! There's 46 tracks in all -- 118 minutes of music!

Liner Notes:

One of the greatest pleasures I had as the producer/director of Lady Magdalene's was working on the movie's music. As the son of a world-class concert violinist, growing up in a home dedicated to music is probably more responsible for shaping my overall esthetic sense than anything else in my experience. But more than that, in a very real sense my life has been a search for the equivalent of music in everything I've done, whether it was as a photographer, a novelist, a screenwriter, a producer/director, an actor -- and, finally, directly in the production of Lady Magdalene's -- as a songwriter, lyricist, and as the music editor of the movie's soundtrack and the producer of this two-disc CD of music from the movie.

With the exception of being present at my daughter's birth, I can't think of a greater thrill in my life than the first time I heard the magnificent Nichelle Nichols perform the song I wrote for the movie, "Rahab the Harlot," with an arrangement by another great musician, Lady Magdalene's musical supervisor, Rahn Coleman. Perhaps equally joyful was giving recordings of my father to the film's composer, Daniel May, and not only having Daniel orchestrate new accompaniment to my father's violin solos, but also use my dad's performance of Paganini's 24th Caprice as the recurring leitmotif for his entire musical score. In essence, Dr. May composed his own new variations on this landmark violin warhorse, in the same way Sergei Rachmaninoff did decades earlier.

Lady Magdalene's is dedicated to my father, Julius Schulman, by both myself and my mother, Betty Schulman, the film's co-executive producer.

But my musical pleasures didn't stop there. Daniel May arranged and sung my alternative western ballad, "Tried by 12," and wrote music to lyrics I wrote for two more songs. I was also able to acquire an original song from a singer/songwriter I discovered working as an engineer at the local TV station we used as a shooting location, and was able to get both Daniel and Rahn to work with other singer/composers to produce new songs for the soundtrack. In producing the musical soundtrack I called on talent from both friends and family - and yes, this includes both my daughter and my ex-wife.

One final liner note. Many performances on the soundtrack are credited to the Daniel May Orchestra. This is a catch-all term for Daniel May and the almost unlimited resources available to a movie's composer these days, combining both new and archived performance tracks. Nowadays, if it exists anywhere as a recording, any music can be a sample to be recombined with other music, in as many possible variations as recombining DNA samples can produce new life.

As my friend, sci-fi/horror author Brad Linaweaver has pointed out, movies are patched together by Dr. Frankensteins, and today movie's composers get to wear the mad scientist's lab coat, too. - J. Neil Schulman
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Label: Yestalgia Music



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