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Dragon's Domain Records presents THE BRUCE BROUGHTON COLLECTION: VOL. 2, featuring music composed by Bruce Broughton (SILVERADO, TOMBSTONE, THE ORVILLE) for two scores from his extensive filmography that highlight more of the gentle, delicate side of the composer's work as a film composer.
Released in 2005, WARM SPRINGS is a made-for-television biographical drama film directed by Joseph Sargent, written by Margaret Nagle, and starring Kenneth Branagh, Cynthia Nixon, Kathy Bates, Tim Blake Nelson, Jane Alexander, and David Paymer. The story explores U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1921 illness — initially diagnosed as polio — his fight to overcome paralysis, the discovery of the Warm Springs resort, and his efforts to establish it as a rehabilitation center for polio patients. Roosevelt's emotional journey through interactions with other disabled individuals helps to prepare him for a return to politics and the challenges of leading the nation during the Great Depression.
The score for WARM SPRINGS is a soft, orchestral piece for about 35 players, including brass, woodwinds, a large string section, harp, and piano. It's presented here in chronological order, capturing Franklin and Eleanor's evolving emotions during these tense hardships.
Released in 2002, BOBBIE'S GIRL is an Irish comedy-drama film for television directed by Jeremy Kagan, starring Bernadette Peters, Rachel Ward, Jonathan Silverman, and Thomas Sangster. It tells the story of a middle-aged lesbian couple who run a peaceful pub faced with sudden health and family crises. The women are quite different: Bobbie (Ward) is calm, reserved, and practical; Bailey (Peters), an American, is warm, outgoing, and eccentric, a former actress.
Bobbie and Bailey Lewis operate 'The Two Sisters', a seaside pub in Bray, near Dublin, with the assistance of Bailey's brother, David (Silverman). Bobbie discovers she has breast cancer and is determined to handle her illness independently. Meanwhile, the parents of her 10-year-old nephew Alan (Sangster) have died and a hesitant Bobbie is persuaded by Bailey to take him in. As Bobbie undergoes treatment, she gradually learns to accept her partner's help. Bailey takes on more responsibility by both managing the pub and caring for Bobbie, who ultimately learns to express love for Alan and welcomes him into their extended family, much to Bailey's joy.
BOBBY'S GIRL features an orchestra of roughly 35 players, including harp, recorder, violins, brass, percussion, guitars. Its main themes focus on the relationship between the women, the local setting, and their emotional struggles caused by sudden changes in their lives.
Bruce Broughton, who has won ten Emmy Awards and been nominated for an Oscar, began his journey into film music in 1973, scoring episodes of television shows from GUNSMOKE, HAWAII FIVE-0, and DALLAS to JAG and THE ORVILLE, miniseries like THE BLUE AND THE GREY and THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA, and feature films such as SILVERADO, YOUNG SHERLOCK HOLMES, HARRY AND THE HENDERSONS, TOMBSTONE, and HONEY, I BLEW UP THE KID. Broughton has more than 130 scores to his credit.
Throughout his career, Broughton has amassed ten Emmy Awards (from twenty-three nominations) and an Academy Award nomination (SILVERADO). In addition to being a composer and an accomplished conductor, Broughton is also a tireless educator having taught classes at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, the Department of Screen Scoring at the USC Thornton School of Music, and is currently serving as Media Composer-in-Residence at the University of North Texas.
Dragon's Domain Records presents THE BRUCE BROUGHTON COLLECTION: VOL. 2, featuring music composed by Bruce Broughton for WARM SPRINGS and BOBBY'S GIRL. The music has been mastered by James Nelson at Digital Outland and the liner notes have been written by G.B. Kemner and Scott Davis.
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