Shutter Island: I guess the liberal arts education paid off

[Bill McCloskey]

My liberal arts musical education has finally paid off. I went to see Shutter Island a few weeks ago (just okay) and recognized every piece of music used in the soundtrack. The movie starts out with what sounds like fog horns. That's Ingram Marshall's Fog Tropes I said to myself (and in fact it was). Then John Cage, John Adams, Morton Feldman's Music for the Rothko Chapel (at one time my all time favorite piece of music).

Musical cue after musical cue. Not only did I know the music, I owned most of it in my cd collection.

My teacher Bill Duckworth would be proud.

[Glenn Suchan]

Bill, I haven't seen this film yet. I might read the book first. Anyway, the trailers for the film seem very ominous. In my mind I imagine a soundtrack by Robert Rich would be very fitting. Heres a link to his composition "Serpent". It builds slowly (as does most of Robert Rich's music), but gets very dark sounding:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ze3yKvC5LHg

Keep on pickin'!
Glenn