The Dead Pool [Original Score]

by Lalo Schifrin

Overview

When The Dead Pool, the fifth and last film in the series devoted to the detective Dirty Harry, played by Clint Eastwood, opened in 1988, it had no accompanying soundtrack album to honor the score composed by Lalo Schifrin, who had also written music for three of the other four films in the series. More than two decades later, Schifrin corrects that oversight with this release on his own record label, Aleph, resurrecting the music recorded in June 1988 for the picture. As an album under the control of the composer himself, this, like other Aleph releases, presents a more coherent set of themes than one would have experienced in the theater or than one might have heard on a standard soundtrack album released simultaneously with the film. Rather than present the short cues as edited into the movie, Schifrin uses more complete musical pieces, either by developing them further than there would have been time for onscreen, or by putting them together in suites. Hence, this is a more listenable soundtrack album than many. That said, it is a collection of fairly conventional jazz, rock, and pop arrangements, along with a lot of music that sounds like it could have come from any number of suspense movies of the 1950s. Some of it is particularly beholden to Bernard Herrmann. The Dead Pool was something of an afterthought in the Dirty Harry series, described by annotator Nick Redman basically as a sop thrown to Warner Bros. Pictures by Eastwood to compensate the studio for the bath it was about to take on his "art" film, Bird, a labor-of-love bio-pic of Charlie Parker. The score doesn't break any new ground, either, though it is a typically competent effort from the composer. ~ William Ruhlmann

Product Details

Release Date:	01/13/2009
Label:	Aleph
UPC:	0651702636327
Rank:	71460

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Lalo Schifrin   Primary Artist,Conductor
Mari Tsumura-Botnick   Violin
Gary Stockdale   Keyboards
Henry Sigismonti   French Horn
Spiro Stamos   Violin
Norm Hughes   Violin
Carrie Holzman-Little   Viola
Murray Adler   Violin
Betty LaMagna   Violin
Susan Greenberg   Flute
Norman Carr   Violin
Sheridan Stokes   Flute
Danny Hemwall   Trombone
Bob Lezin   Violin
Jack Marsh   Bassoon
Ray Tischer   Viola
Michelle Nardone   Viola
John Allen Hornschuch   Bass
Douglas Cameron   Violin
Dennis Karmazan   Cello
Art Maebe   French Horn
Kenneth Yerke   Violin
Brian D. A. O'Connor   French Horn
John Hornschuch   Bass
Hans Vidkjer   Trombone
Carl LaMagna   Violin
Armen Ksajikian   Cello
Bob Zimmitti   Drums,Percussion
Dan Hemwall   Trombone
Brian O'Connor   French Horn
Alan Pasqua   Keyboards
Don Palmer   Violin
Paula Hochhalter   Cello
Harvey Mason, Sr.   Drums,Percussion
Dan Savant   Trumpet
Sheldon Sanov   Violin
Allan Vogel   Oboe
Carole Mukogawa   Viola
Anatoly Rosinsky   Violin
Gary Foster   Saxophone
Armen Ksadjikian   Cello
Bill Watrous   Trombone
Norm Carr   Violin
Donald Ashworth   Saxophone
Fernando Pullum   Trumpet
Chris Ermacoff   Cello
James Kanter   Clarinet
Randy Kerber   Keyboards
Steve Kujala   Saxophone
Steve Forman   Drums,Percussion
Israel Baker   Violin
Armen Garabedian   Violin
Arni Egilsson   Bass
Chuck Findley   Trumpet
Chuck Domanico   Bass
Joe DiBlasi   Guitar
Ray Kramer   Cello
Fred Selden   EWI
Ezra Kliger   Violin
Alan de Veritch   Viola
Jerry Hey   Trumpet
Richard Todd   French Horn
Sheridon Stokes   Flute
Michael Lang   Keyboards
Sue Raney   Bass
Denyse Buffum   Viola
Arthur Maebe   French Horn
Jorge Moraga   Viola
Assa Drori   Violin
Dick Noel   Trombone
Abraham Laboriel, Sr.   Bass,Guitar (Bass)
Timothy May   Guitar
Rose Corrigan   Bassoon
Kim Richmond   EWI
Gayle Levant   Harp
Gary Gray   Clarinet
Joel Peskin   EWI
Dennis Karmazyn   Cello
Harry Cykman   Violin
Endre Granat   Violin
Dimitrie Leivici   Violin
Bruce Morgenthaler   Bass
David Weiss   Oboe
Drew Dembowski   Bass
Alan Estes   Drums,Percussion
Carole Castillo   Viola
Harris Goldman   Violin
Ken Yerke   Violin
Myra Kestenbaum   Viola
Raymond Tischer   Viola
Timothy Barr   Bass
Pavel Farkas   Violin
Charles Everett   Violin
Earl Madison   Cello
Ray Kelley   Cello
Susan Ranney   Bass
David Shamban   Cello
Robert Lipsett   Violin
Bernard Kundell   Violin

Technical Credits

Bobby Manrique   Copyist
Dan Franklin   Copyist
Alan Sanders   Copyist
Daniel Franklin   Copyist
Eric Stonerook   Copyist
Theresa Eastman Schifrin   Design,Art Direction
Harvey Cohen   Copyist
John McGuire   Copyist
Donald K. Harris   Music Editor
Donna Schifrin   Executive Producer
Camillo Fidelibus   Copyist
Patti Fidelibus   Orchestra Manager
Barbi Franklin   Copyist
Barbara Franklin   Copyist
Bob Manrique   Copyist
Daniel Hersch   Editing,Mastering
Joel Franklin   Copyist
Nick Redman   Producer,Liner Notes
Lalo Schifrin   Composer,Orchestration
Lolita Ritmanis   Copyist
Michael Matessino   Remixing