Reel Life (2000)

CD featuring recordings of personal music from film composers Rachel Portman, Howard Shore, David Raskin, Bob James and Bruce Broughton as well as Michael..

Michael re-recorded and contributed a piece he’d written many years previously called “Cut Sleeves”.

He was inspired by the centuries old tale of a Chinese Emperor who rather than wake his lover sleeping on his arm, ordered the sleeves of his priceless robes be cut so the lover could sleep on undisturbed.

Album, Arabesque Records

LINER NOTES

Performed by
Music Amici

Artistic Director
Marti Sweet

Executive Producers
Marvin M. Reiss & Michael Whalen

Produced by
Charles Yassky & Jonathan Schultz except:

Hughie & Piano Four produced by
Charles Yassky, Jonathan Schultz & Howard Shore

A Song After Sundown produced by
Charles Yassky, Jonathan Schultz & Bernard Hoffer

Production Director
Daniel Chriss

Post Production Director
Jodi Howard

Enigeered by
Jonathan Schultz

Edited by
Jonathan Schultz & Charles Yassky

Recorded at the Sommer Center, Concordia College (Bronxville, New York) on August 10, 11 & 12, 1999

Mastered by
Jonathan Schultz except Rhapsody and A song After Sundown mastered by UE Nastasi at
Sterling Sound

Yamaha CFIII S Piano courtesy of
Yamaha Artist Services, New York

Piano Technician
Kong Ju Lee

℗&©2000 Arabesque Recordings

TRACKLIST

1. Bob JAMES: Odyssey

2. Howard SHORE Hughie

3. Michael KAMEN: Cut Sleeves

4. Rachel PORTMAN: Rhapsody

Bruce Broughton: A Primer for Malachi

5. Flowing

6. Faster

7. Rhapsodically

8. Very Quick

9. Very Calm

10. Howard SHORE: Piano Four

11. David RAKSIN: A Song After Sundown

12. Rachel PORTMAN: For Julian