I’ve spent some time lately converting my old audio and video tapes to digital formats – things like family videos, concerts, etc… One of the tapes I found contains a live performance of my first legitimate musical composition, a piece I wrote for AP Music, senior year of high school. I wrote the piece for string quartet plus piano. The melody is based on… wait for it… the Love Theme from the movie The Saint (featuring Val Kilmer and Elisabeth Shue).
The movie’s story just barely makes sense (with a 30% Rotten Tomatoes rating, it’s just slightly worse than The Hangover Part II). Certainly Kilmer and Shue both have histories of picking bad movies to star in. I’ll just put myself out there and say it, however: I really like The Saint, and I blame the movie’s original musical score for that.
The CD soundtrack to The Saint, excluding “6 Underground” by The Sneaker Pimps, sorta sucked. A lot of the music was Eastern European electronica, and mostly the original scores by Graeme Revell were not included. I in fact only recently read about Graeme. He has a well-respected bio. Perhaps unexpectedly, he wrote original music for The Crow, Sin City, and Pineapple Express, plus numerous others.
So, I present a live-performance version and a MIDI version of my first musical composition – written in early 2000.
Live
Midi
(sounds very video-gamey, and for whatever reason adds several minutes of silence at the end)
And if you’re interested, here’s the real deal, the Love Theme from The Saint by Graeme Revell.