THE BIG COUNTRY (1958) - Jerome Moross - Soundtrack Score Suite

Charles Marion Russell (March 19, 1864 -- October 24, 1926), also known as C. M. Russell, Charlie Russell, and "Kid" Russell, was an artist of the Old American West. Russell created more than 2,000 paintings of cowboys, Indians, and landscapes set in the Western United States, in addition to bronze sculptures. Known as 'the cowboy artist', Russell was also a storyteller and author. The C. M. Russell Museum Complex located in Great Falls, Montana houses more than 2,000 Russell artworks, personal objects, and artifacts.



Jerome Moross (August 1, 1913 -- July 27, 1983) was an American-born composer for the stage, and a composer, conductor and orchestrator for motion pictures.
He was born in New York City in 1913. He became a talented piano player and composed music for the theater. In the 1940s he began to work in Hollywood, where he would compose music for 16 films from 1948 to 1969.

His best known film score is that for the 1958 movie The Big Country, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Original Music Score. According to Moross, he composed the main title after recalling a walk he took in the flat lands around Albuquerque shortly before he moved to Hollywood in the late 1930s.

Among his other works include the music for the films The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1960), The Cardinal (1963), and Rachel, Rachel (1968). He also composed the main theme to the 3rd--8th seasons of the TV series Wagon Train and was a composer on many other films.
He also orchestrated for other composers, including such films as Our Town for Aaron Copland and The Best Years of Our Lives for Hugo W Friedhofer.
Moross's concert works include a symphony, a sonata for two pianos and string quartet.

Moross died in Miami in 1983 of congestive heart failure following a stroke.

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[storrrm99]

Wonderful score! Agree with RGN07, that section is just sublime.

[RGN07]

What made this movie great was this score 01:45.

[JubalCalif]

@Schnurpselbacke1

Thanks for your support! I'm glad I'm not the only one who finds it hardly likely that the late great Jerome Moross could steal from music that hadn't been written yet! Happy Holidays & a wonderful New Year to you & yours! :-)

[ridgerunner721601]

One of my favorite movies of all time. My only complaint was seeing Chuck Connors as sort of a bad guy. How could 'The Rifleman' be a bad guy??? LOL

[avatarnarutochuck]

@Glinkaism1 Haha!!! Guess who has limited intelligence now?

[Schnurpselbacke1]

@Glinkaism1, I have to agree with JubalCalif: How could Moross be able to borrow/steal/imitate something that even didn´t exist at the time he wrote his score? Please take a minute to think about it. ;)

[JubalCalif]

@Glinkaism1

To each his own. Guess in your world no one is entitled to their opinons. And by calling me an asshole, you only show how uncouth & inarticulate you are. And by the way, Moross wrote the score BEFORE Bernstein wrote his. Big Country came out in '58 and Magnicicent Seven came out a few yrs later. If Moross borrowed something before it was written, he must have been clairvoyant.  Please spare me your potty mouth in the future. People can disagree in a friendly way.

[Glinkaism1]

@JubalCalif I KNOW that, asshole! I was stating that Moross music was a "knock-off " of the Marlboro Man music. Since you have limited intelligence and limited English vocabulary, a "knock-off" means that someone is STEALING OR IMITATING something else.

To put it then in PLAINER ENGLISH, Moross borrowed his music from Bernstein's Magnificent Seven music. Thus Moross is NOT to be admired. He is a hack composer. There are far better ORIGINAL western scores from talented composers.

[jdelayknee]

Thank you for a wonderful show. This is on my favorites.

[Glinkaism1]

Sounds like a knock-off the Marlboro Man music.