Soundtrack Orchestra {Who was it?}

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I just got the Titanic soundtrack and I LOVE it!!!!!! I was wondering, what is the name of the orchestra that performed most of the songs? I didn't see it anywhere in the cd insert, did I miss it? Or was most of the music done with a synthesizer? And, does anyone know which song they were playing in the movie scene with the dolphins? My aunt & I can't decide which song on the soundtrack it is because there are a few that seem so similar.

-- CarrieB (pookie1@hotmail.com), January 31, 1998

Answers

Response to Soundtrack Orchestra

I don't know the name of the orchestra, but it was not from a synthesizer.

-- Colleen (colleendi@earthlink.net), February 01, 1998.

Response to Soundtrack Orchestra

The sound that was playing with the dolphin scene was track 6, "Take her to sea, Mr. Murdoch. The point in which the dolphin seen occured is about 1:35 into the track.

Chris Kilroy

-- Chris Kilroy (Chrisk757@aol.com), February 01, 1998.


Response to Soundtrack Orchestra

Colleen: I beleive you are wrong about the synthesizers. What I describe as "A Million Angels Singing" was mostly synthesizer and violin. That's what it said on the review of the CD at least.

-- Jason Reina (jlr@inu.net), February 01, 1998.

Response to Soundtrack Orchestra

Orchestras for Hollywood soundtracks are usually what we in the music business call "pick-up" orchestras. The players are hired for a specific soundtrack job, with no guarantee of playing the next one, although if you stick around and do well you end up playing for a lot of them. The point is that the personnel of orchestras for soundtracks change from movie to movie; they don't retain a set membership and identity like "The San Francisco Symphony."

Incidentally, if the liner notes to the 'Titanic' soundtrack are to be believed, they used a combination of synthesizer and live musicians, a typical practice in modern movie music.

-- Thomas Shoebotham (cathytom@ix.netcom.com), February 01, 1998.


Response to Soundtrack Orchestra

James Cameron said, and I quote from memory, "James has written music for the film done both synthisized and traditional that isn't dated and doesn't sound like a period piece." It was something to that effect. The point is, the soundtrack would have sounded as good to people from 1912 as it does to us now. As for orchestras, they could be a group that James Horner works with frequently. Or they could be the "Greater Los Angeles Symphony Orchestra" like from the soundtrack to Robin Hood. Whomever they are, they're good.

-- Dave Phillips (Sonitus@USA.net), February 02, 1998.


The sound that was playing with the dolphin scene was track 6, "Take her to sea, Mr. Murdoch. The point in which the dolphin seen occured is about 1:35 into the track.

Chris Kilroy

-- Chris Kilroy (Chrisk757@aol.com), January 06, 2004.


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