BuySoundtrax Records
announces the release of Chinois! The New Millennium Theatrical Spectacular,
composed by Bruce Rowland. The soundtrack is a limited edition, with only
1000 copies being pressed. As a special offer, the first 100 people to order
the package will have their copy autographed by the composer at no additional
charge.
Drawing upon 2500 years of traditional Chinese theatrical performing arts
as seen through western eyes, Chinois! The New Millennium Theatrical Spectacular
was commissioned by the Ministry of Culture in Beijing. Conceived for the
stage and featuring the most stunning skills of shadow puppetry, mime, dance,
breathtaking acrobatic performances, aerial trapeze, and martial arts, woven
together with "Black Arts" illusions, the production features
a mix of these Chinese arts with Western production techniques. The production
was put together by Creative Producer of Famous Artists International Tedd
Dunn and was composed by Australian composer Bruce Rowland.
Bruce Rowland's background as a pianist with a local pop band during the
1960s and an association with children's television as a musical director
and songwriter gave Rowland two decades of experience in songwriting and
finding the right melodic and rhythmic hook to create effective and memorable
compositions. He gained international acclaim with his very first film score
- 1982's THE MAN FROM SNOWY RIVER. Rowland's score persuasively spoke for
the spirit of both the boy and the horse who struggle for acceptance and
freedom in Australia's harsh mountain country and earned him the Australian
Film Industry's Best Film Score Award.
Another film about a horse, Simon Wincer's PHAR LAP, told the true story
about the rise and fall of the famous race horse. Rowland's score gained
him a second Best Film Score Award (h'd later earn a third in 1985 for REBEL).
He scored RETURN TO SNOWY RIVER in 1988, and teamed up with Wincer again
to compose the director's adventure films, LIGHTNING JACK and FLASH, the
story about a boy and a race horse. Rowland's association with films about
animals was inescapable. His proclivity for providing the right emotional
balance for films involving people and animals brought him plenty of outdoor,
nature-related films to score, many of which were made by SNOWY RIVER director
George Miller, with whom Rowland maintained an ongoing association, scoring
such films for him as THE GREAT ELEPHANT ESCAPE, BADLANDS 2005, ZEUS AND
ROXANNE, ANDRE, TIDAL WAVE: NO ESCAPE, TRIBE, and the miniseries ALL THE
RIVERS RUN. |
