John Dalmas wrote: >>My favorite Alfred Newman score was to the 1939 "Gunga Din." It was a score >>IMO every bit as striking as any of Korngold or Moross, but strangely got >>scant recognition at the time. Steve Schwartz replied: >I've not heard the score all by itself, although I've seen the movie many >times. To me, in the context of the movie (one of my favorites), it never >leaves the background. Therefore, I can't agree with "striking." It does, >however, function very well as a sub-liminal emotional "guide." Another of my favorite Newman scores is the stirring one (recycled by Fox for use in other films) to the 1940 "Brigham Young--Frontiersman." Regarding Steve's description of the score to "Gunga Din" as limited to functioning in the background below the level of consciousness (with which description I disagree), I might comment that generally the most striking component of a film score is the main title theme, music that rarely in a film has any concurrent narrative foreground. John Dalmas [log in to unmask]