THE OMEN
(2006) Production Company: 20th Century Fox, 11:11 Mediaworks
Distributors: 20th Century Fox
& 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment Release date
(USA): 6 June 2006
Director: John
Moore Screenplay: David
Seltzer
Music Composed by
Marco Beltrami Orchestra Conducted by Pete
Anthony Performed by The London
Session Orchestra & Metro
Voices Orchestrated by Pete Anthony, Bill Boston, Marcus Trumpp, Marco Beltrami &
Dana
Niu Recorded and
Mixed by John
Kurlander Recorded
at Abbey Road
Studios, London, UK Mixed at
The Village Recorder Assistant Engineers Richard
Lancaster, Kevin Globerman & Chris
Cozens Music Editor Alex Gibson & Roy Prendergast Orchestra
Contracted by Isobel
Griffiths Music Preparation Victor Pesavento, Dave Hage & Matt
Franko
Music Produced by
Marco Beltrami
& Buck Sanders
Synopsis:
When the Vatican observatory priest sees the appearance of a
comet, the Church is sure that it confirms the eve of the
Armageddon. Meanwhile, the USA President's godson Robert Thorn
is informed in the maternity in Rome by Father Spiletto that
his wife Katherine has just lost her baby and she had troubles
with her uterus and would not have another pregnancy. Spiletto
suggests Robert that another just born child that lost his
mother could be the substituted for his son, and Robert
accepts the child and gives the name of Damien. Robert is
promoted to ambassador in London after a tragic accident. When
Damien's nanny commits suicide in his birthday party, a
substitute, Mrs. Baylock, comes to work and live with the
family. Along the years, Katherine realizes that Damien is
evil, while Robert is contacted by Father Brennan, who tells
him that Damien is the son of
devil...
A NOTE FROM THE
COMPOSER
Jerry was a master of economy. The 3-note motif
that he devised for Damien provides the fundamental rhytmical and
melodic basis for his entire score. Similarly, I needed a simple
idea which could be developed throughout the score. It came in the
form of the sound of a piano pedal simply being depressed and
released. From that simple rhytm came a 4-note melodic fragment
which then could also be transformed into the family theme; and when
the notes are rearranged, we have the descending portentous
investigation of mystery. I hope fans of Jerry's original Omen score
will find this collection of cues a logical connection of ideas. It
is the utmost respect to my old teacher that I celebrate his
compositional ingenuity with this
album. First I came up
with my motifs and what I was going to do. This score came to me so
fast it was unbelievable. I only spent two weeks writing the score.
I probably spent about two weeks coming up with how I was going to
crack the puzzle figuring out what I was going to do, working on it
everyday, and as soon as I did that, I wrote it so fast. I had my
theme, which is actually four-note theme. B, G sharp, G natural and
A sharp. The Family theme came out of these four notes. You hear
this in the montage, you hear it throughout the movie, whenever the
husband and the wife are together like the scene when Damien is on
the swing. From that came "The Damien Theme", which is descending
figure based on the same notes, but arranged differently. They are
descending instead of being played with intervals between them. It's
not based on his particular character, but his impending doom. When
I actually sat down to write to film, the first scene I composed was
this montage, the home video when they bring Damien home in the
beginning of the movie. This is expanded on those four notes into a
theme, it's not just a motif, but it's probably the most developed
theme in the film.
V A R E S E S A R A B A
N D
E (VSD-6736)
01. The Omen Main Titles
(2:58) 02. The Adoption (4:12) 03. Ambassador Gets
Fired (1:33) 04. New House / Damien’s Deliverance
(2:20) 05. The Nanny’s Noose (2:05) 06. A Cross to
Bear (2:49) 07. Ms. Baylock (1:50) 08. Damien’s
Tantrum (1:52) 09. More Tantrums (2:12) 10. Kate
Doubts (1:05) 11. Scooter (2:44) 12. Don’t Let Him
Kill Me (1:29) 13. On the Heels of Spiletto (6:58)
14. Dogs in the Cemetery (2:02) 15. Drive to
Bugenhagen (1:31) 16. Dirty Deeds (4:12) 17. Altar of
Sacrifice (4:10) PDF 18. The Funeral
(1:41) 19. Boy Genius (2:52) 20. Omen 76/06
(3:30)
Release date: 6 June 2006 Total Time: 55:50 Length of the Score: 121
minutes
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