Cimarron (2005)

About this title: Released during the death throes of the studio-system era, the 1960 feature adaptation of Edna Ferber's Cimarron was subject to extensive editing and cutting that counted among the collateral damage Franz Waxman's remarkable score. Film Score Monthly's 2004 reissue restores Waxman's work to its original glory, and vaults it into contention among his finest cinematic efforts. A rousing Western score with an intimacy and emotional depth uncommon to the genre, Cimarron navigates between modernist impulses and classical conventions with surgical precision. Rarely has music so epic retained such a ... read more

Tracks:

1. Main Title [Waxman/Webster]
2. Goodbye Father [Waxman]
3. Meeting Tom Wyatt [Waxman]
4. The Villain [Waxman]
5. Night Camp [Waxman]
6. Getting Ready [Waxman]
7. The Land Rush [Waxman]
8. Pegler's Death [Waxman]
9. Mrs. Pegler Carries on Don't Go Yancey/A New Town [Waxman]
10. Hanging Scene [Waxman]
11. The Villain's Death [Waxman]
12. A Son Is Born [Waxman]
13. Wanted/Billy and His Pals [Waxman]
14. They Got the Kid/After Billy's Death and Funeral Parlor [Waxman]
15. The Wrong Man/Goodbye to Dixie/The Telegram/A New Territory [Waxman]
16. Alaska/Yancey Is Back/Oil, Oil [Waxman]
17. Tom's Betrayal [Waxman]
18. Osage Street Scene/Cim and Ruby/Yancey Goes to Washington [Waxman]
19. Washington Hotel [Waxman]
20. Surprise Visit [Waxman]
21. Memories and Finale [Waxman/Webster]
22. Outtakes Suite [Waxman/Webster]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.