{"id":868,"date":"2012-01-11T23:51:31","date_gmt":"2012-01-12T04:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.craigperler.com\/blog\/?p=868"},"modified":"2024-06-06T23:25:57","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T03:25:57","slug":"saintly-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.craigperler.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/11\/saintly-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Saintly Music"},"content":{"rendered":"
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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<\/a> (featuring Val Kilmer and Elisabeth Shue).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The movie’s story just barely makes sense<\/a> (with a 30% Rotten Tomatoes rating, it’s just slightly worse than The Hangover Part II). Certainly Kilmer<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The CD soundtrack to The Saint<\/a>, excluding “6 Underground” by The Sneaker Pimps<\/a>, 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<\/a>. He has a well-respected bio. Perhaps unexpectedly, he wrote original music for The Crow<\/a>, Sin City, and Pineapple Express, plus numerous others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, I present a live-performance version and a MIDI version of my first musical composition – written in early 2000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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