On Thursday, May 4, 1995 at 12:00:00 AM UTC-7, George Chia-Chen Yeh wrote:

I happened to come across the WWW Home Page on Powell and Pressburger,
which leads me to post this.
Has anyone any information about Brian Easdale, the composer for many of P&P's films? I haven't had time to read through the new biography of
Emeric Pressburger, nor has the 2nd volume of Michael Powell's memoirs arrived in St. Louis as far as I can tell, for any information.
Also, just a random thought....The ballet score for _The Red Shoes_ has
been recorded a few times, once recently on a CD. However, in both these cases, there is a cut in the score (it's the moment when immediately
after the priest and the congregation reject the girl, the shoemaker
jumps back in with a knife, which the girl grabs and with which she tries
to cut off the shoes, but the knife falls out and lands in the stage
blade up). It's a particularly harsh moment, relatively speaking, but it makes the transition between the two scenes more sensible, musically.
Also, the little 2 minute overture that's played as the final backstage panic is going on has, to my knowledge, never been recorded
commercially. It seems that the only recording of it is the one used on
the soundtrack, but all the backstage business obscures most of it. Is
there any possibility of somehow realizing the absolutely complete score, with that cut and the overture, to be recorded somewhere and released on
CD? I realize that in the overall scheme of things in life, this isn't
all that important. It's just that if a record company wants to record
the score, I'd rather see it done complete. This is kind of like the authentic movement in classical music meets movie scores.
Anyway, sorry for going on like this, and thanks in advance.
Cheers,
George
Dept. of Chemistry
Washington University, St. Louis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZWmR6_tfZ0

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