Open Range (2003)

Kevin Costner directed and starred in this traditional Western.

Composer, Orchestrator, Conductor
Writer: “Holding all my Love for you”
Lyrics & Performed by Julianna Raye
Produced by James Harrah

Film, Touchstone Pictures 

Movie Music UK Review about Open Range

‘Throughout the score, you can hear familiar Kamenisms, from scores as varied as Robin Hood, Mr. Holland’s Opus and even Inventing the Abbots, in the orchestration, the chord structures, and the way he always used certain flourishes and instrumental combinations. Whatever else was said about Kamen, you could always tell you were listening to one his scores: his distinctive style of writing was one of his greatest talents, and elevated him above many of his contemporaries as a composer who had an individual and expressive voice.
Before Kamen died, he had already completed the music for another film, Against the Ropes, and was scheduled to write for two more movies in 2004 – which of course, now, we will never hear. I don’t want to go overboard by saying that Open Range is the best thing Kamen had ever written, because it isn’t. However, when you take this score and listen to it alongside with Band of Brothers and his millennium symphony “The New Moon in the Old Moon’s Arms” it shows that Kamen was in a rich vein of writing form during the last years of his life, and further highlights the tragedy of a composer, seemingly in his creative prime, who has been taken from us far too early. Rest in peace, Michael. Your music will be your legacy.’
- Jonathan Broxton

Composed and Conducted by
Michael Kamen

Produced by
Teese Gohl for Gohl/McLaughlin

Performed by
The Czech Philharmonic Orchestra

Guitars by
Neill MacColl

Solo Fiddle
Jake Walker

Orchestrations by
Michael Kamen and Robert Elhai

Additional Orchestrations by
Blake Neely, Brad Warnaar and
Peter Boyer

Recorded and Mixed by
Stephen McLaughlin

Music Editor
Tom Villano

Engineers
Cenda Kotzmann and Oldrich Slezak

Assistant Engineers
James Doyle and Paul Hicks

Music Preparation
Vic Fraser - Global Music Service,
Richard Ihnatowicz and Ilan Eshkeri

Assistant to Michael Kamen
Rupert Christie

Recorded and Mixed at
The Dvorak Hall and Rudolfinum Studio, Prague, 2003

Mixed at
The North Pole

 

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