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The Great Debaters (Original Motion Picture Score)

James Newton Howard & Peter Golub

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Album Review

The Great Debaters pairs composers James Newton Howard and Peter Golub, in effect bringing together mainstream, big-budget Hollywood and its independent, low-budget sibling from the wrong side of the tracks. As one might expect, it's far from a seamless marriage: Howard's sweeping, epic melodies and Golub's homespun, acoustic folksiness make for an awkward fit, and never quite capture the film's period Southern locale. Howard ultimately fares better than Golub, if only because the inspirational, true-life narrative is right in the composer's wheelhouse — cues like "Letter from Harvard" and "James' Speech" effortlessly achieve the kind of heroic, larger-than-life scale that remain his signature.

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Wow!

This movie was fantastic!! The soundtrack is just as good!!

Another beautiful JNH score

You would think that after all these years, he would run out of ideas. Not so! JNH remains one of the true masters of film music out there today. Some of these cues have a James Horner-ish feel to them, some are lyrical along the lines of JNH's other scores, but every one's a winner. If you like this score and you're on the lookout for something similar, check out these up-and-coming talents: give a listen to Dario Marianelli, Kerry Muzzey, Trevor Morris, Paolo Buonvino, and Aaron Zigman. They offer similar styles, and all are emotion-packed, just like this score.

Beautiful Music

I purchased this album after watching the movie. The music is absolutely beautiful. This is one of the best film scores I've heard. I was surprised by the official review listed under the iTunes description. I think it is totally off base, which is why I decided to write my first iTunes review. James Newton Howard and Peter Golub are amazing talents. If you like subdued beautiful music, you will not be disapointed.

Biography

Born: June 9, 1951 in Los Angeles, CA

Genre: Soundtrack

Years Active: '70s, '80s, '90s, '00s, '10s

Pianist, producer, and composer James Newton-Howard scored over 60 films beginning in the mid-'80s, including The Fugitive, Space Jam, The Prince of Tides, Pretty Woman, Glengarry Glen Ross, and Waterworld. Newton-Howard began taking classical piano lessons at the age of four, playing on a piano owned by his grandmother, who was the Pittsburgh Symphony's concertmaster and violinist during the 1930s and '40s. He went on to study at the USC School of Music and at the Music Academy of the West (in Santa...
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