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Philip Glass Archives Vol IV: Neverwas (filmscore)

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Label: Orange Mountain Music

Cat No: OMM0052

Barcode: 0801837005226

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Soundtrack

Release Date: 25th August 2008

Works

Glass, Philip

Neverwas

Artists

Studio Orchestra
Michael Riesman (piano And Conductor)

Works

Glass, Philip

Neverwas

Artists

Studio Orchestra
Michael Riesman (piano And Conductor)

About

Philip Glass’ score to the film Neverwas is the fourth release from the Philip Glass Recording Archive. Neverwas, a movie starring Sir Ian McKellen, Aaron Eckhart, Nick Nolte, Brittany Murphy, Jessica Lange, William Hurt, Michael Moriarty and Alan Cumming is a fantasy-mystery with a bold, playful and fantastical score by Philip Glass.

Neverwas (2005) – the first feature film from writer and director Joshua Michael Stern - never received wide distribution and has largely been forgotten, but its beautiful music certainly deserves to be widely heard. The 53-minute Glass score, composed the same year as the composer’s celebrated soundtrack to the Oscar-winning “The Hours”, possesses some of Glass’s most accessible and heartfelt music. The conductor and pianist is long-time Glass associate, Michael Riesman.

Weaving together fantasy and reality, past and present, Neverwas is an enchantment-filled, life-affirming tale about a young man who discovers that his childhood fantasyland may really exist. Zach Riley (Aaron Eckhart) is a successful psychiatrist looking for answers about his father's troubled past at the Mill Wood psychiatric hospital. His father, T. L. Pierson (Nick Nolte), author of a wildly popular children's fantasy called Neverwas, struggled with manic depression that ultimately led to his suicide. Among Zach's patients at Mill Wood is a man with a poor connection to reality, Gabriel (Sir Ian McKellen), who seems to know a lot about Zach, his father and the land of Neverwas. He also meets a woman (Brittany Murphy), an ardent fan of the Neverwas story and its author, who may have a hidden agenda. Zach must get to the core of the origins of Neverwas before he finds the answers he's looking for.

Tracks:

1) Main title Neverwas
2) “I Want the Job”
3) “Hi Gabriel”
4) Meeting Maggie
5) First Patient
6) Records Room
7) The Pierson Estate
8) Remembering Thomas
9) “I am the King”
10) “Weirder and Weirder”
11) “You’re a Reporter”
12) Dungeon Break
13) The Riverknight
14) Discovering Neverwas/Ghastly Arrives
15) The Castle/“My Name is Zachary Small”
16) End Titles
17) Neverwas Restored

Total time: 52.18