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Major Dundee [Soundtrack by D Amfitheatrof]

John S. Lasher | Broken Hill, NSW, Australia | 10/18/2005

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Perhaps, I am being a bit biased here, if only because I was personally associated with the composer in the final 10-years of his life. This is a fine soundtrack, despite some unwarranted criticism being levied against it by the management of Sony Pictures Classics when they arrived at their ludicrous decision to replace it with music by some unknown composer in 2005. J S R Lasher."

Shares Peckinpah's Sentiments

Alamo_guy | 08/10/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This is a highly romantic soundtrack. It captures the essence of director Sam Peckinpah's Westerns very intuitively. The best of Peckinpah's Westerns were concerned with characters that outlived their time and era and were trapped in new surroundings in which they did not fit and could not escape except by some extraordinary act of catharsis. Daniele Amfitheatrof's score for MAJOR DUNDEE truly reflected Peckinpah's sentiments. On one hand you have the traditional and sentimental DUNDEE MARCH that immortalizes and evokes images of a grand cavalry brigade. Many of the instrumental tracks on this soundtrack counter this grand image with elegiac passages and fleeting moments of melancholy for lost glory and for changing times. For the Confederacy, Captain Benjamin Tyreen's act of bravery, heroism and sacrifice is perhaps one of the South's last gasps at a gallantry to be lost forever. Amfitheatrof's soundtrack captures these moments so endearingly here.

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