Post by erik on Sept 5, 2020 18:08:29 GMT -5
With the 19th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks around the corner, it is time to look at the music score of one of a pair of films released in 2006 that dealt with the nightmare that erupted on September 11, 2001.
Craig Armstrong: WORLD TRADE CENTER
Arguably the defining event of the 21st century thus far (not counting our current COVID-19 pandemic) was the horror that was unleashed during a span of 102 minutes on the morning of Tuesday September 11, 2001, when three hijacked passenger jets were sent careening into buildings, and a fourth hijacked plane (United Flight 93) was sent into the ground in Pennsylvania. One of the three “successful” hijacked aircraft,, American Airlines Flight 77, nailed the Pentagon. The other two, American Airlines Flight 11 and United 175, were sent into the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan. All told, nearly 3,000 people lost their lives, and tens of thousands more were injured. Two of those injured in the rubble of the World Trade Center, following the collapse of the Twin Towers, were Port Authority officers John McLoughlin and Will Jimeno; and they were trapped under 20,000 tons of rubble for almost twenty hours before they were rescued. Their story was the subject of director Oliver Stone’s 2006 film World Trade Center, a surprisingly (given the director’s reputation) non-controversial but commercially and artistically look at the heroism that emerged from the darkness of the day. To accentuate the true-life heroism of McLoughlin and Jimeno (played in the film by, respectively, Nicolas Cage and Michael Pena), Stone tabbed Scottish-born composer Craig Armstrong to compose the score. Although he did not actually conduct the score, leaving that to Pete Anthony while doing the piano parts, Armstrong nevertheless composed a very moving and evocative score that showed the pride of the Big Apple and the human toll the tragedy takes on the lives of McLoughlin’s and Jimeno’s families, as well as the rest of the Port Authority and New York City emergency responders, who lost 343 of their own in the Twin Towers. Armstrong’s score helped secure World Trade Center’s place as a box office success in the late summer and early fall of 2006 (five years after the tragedy) with a $170 million take.
Soprano: SUSIE STEVENS LOGAN
Soprano: CATHERINE O’HALLORAN
Piano: CRAIG ARMSTRONG
Cello: ALISON LAWRENCE
Hollywood Film Chorale
Hollywood Studio Symphony Orchestra/PETE ANTHONY (Sony)
Craig Armstrong: WORLD TRADE CENTER
Arguably the defining event of the 21st century thus far (not counting our current COVID-19 pandemic) was the horror that was unleashed during a span of 102 minutes on the morning of Tuesday September 11, 2001, when three hijacked passenger jets were sent careening into buildings, and a fourth hijacked plane (United Flight 93) was sent into the ground in Pennsylvania. One of the three “successful” hijacked aircraft,, American Airlines Flight 77, nailed the Pentagon. The other two, American Airlines Flight 11 and United 175, were sent into the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan. All told, nearly 3,000 people lost their lives, and tens of thousands more were injured. Two of those injured in the rubble of the World Trade Center, following the collapse of the Twin Towers, were Port Authority officers John McLoughlin and Will Jimeno; and they were trapped under 20,000 tons of rubble for almost twenty hours before they were rescued. Their story was the subject of director Oliver Stone’s 2006 film World Trade Center, a surprisingly (given the director’s reputation) non-controversial but commercially and artistically look at the heroism that emerged from the darkness of the day. To accentuate the true-life heroism of McLoughlin and Jimeno (played in the film by, respectively, Nicolas Cage and Michael Pena), Stone tabbed Scottish-born composer Craig Armstrong to compose the score. Although he did not actually conduct the score, leaving that to Pete Anthony while doing the piano parts, Armstrong nevertheless composed a very moving and evocative score that showed the pride of the Big Apple and the human toll the tragedy takes on the lives of McLoughlin’s and Jimeno’s families, as well as the rest of the Port Authority and New York City emergency responders, who lost 343 of their own in the Twin Towers. Armstrong’s score helped secure World Trade Center’s place as a box office success in the late summer and early fall of 2006 (five years after the tragedy) with a $170 million take.
Soprano: SUSIE STEVENS LOGAN
Soprano: CATHERINE O’HALLORAN
Piano: CRAIG ARMSTRONG
Cello: ALISON LAWRENCE
Hollywood Film Chorale
Hollywood Studio Symphony Orchestra/PETE ANTHONY (Sony)
