I finished recording for the music for the trailer "Red Sister Red" . It should be coming out shortly. The front section of it I had Wendy Mittelstadt do the violin and the vocals at the start of it. She did a great job with it and I couldn't be more pleased how it all sounds. One of the greatest joys of being a composer is creating music that is performed by others. It's great to hear what musicians can bring into the piece that you compose (all those slight nuances) . I am sure an architect probably has the same feeling when he see something he/she created being constructed.


Next Saturday I will be in Los Angeles for the screening. My suit is being tailored and I already got a haircut. The last time I was there was back in 1999 and I am sure it has changed a lot since then.

I watched a cool movie last night called "The Mephisto Waltz". Alan Alda and Jacqueline Bisset are in it. Alan Alda plays a classical piano player on the rise who befriends afamous player himself who's at death's door. Unknown to Alda, the guy is a satanist, who arranges to have their souls switch places at his death, so that he can be young again and continue to play piano (thus needing a skilled piano player like Alda to switch bodies with). It's truly a weird an unusual film. What made it fascinating to me is the soundtrack is so strange. It was composed by Jerry Goldsmith and it's so unique and disturbing it completely carries the film.