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FROM THE VAULT – Score Guide – Home Alone (1990)
(Original Air Date – December 24th, 2017)
Join Will & Wend for their first Christmas Score Guide! In their final episode of 2017 they merrily explore a childhood classic, the 1990 comedy chrimbo movie, Home Alone, composed and conducted by masterful maestro, John Williams.
Your festive hosts shall be pulling back the composer’s christmassy curtain for you our loyal listener, to reveal themes, identify leitmotifs, and gush over instrumentation and all those sparkling musical moments that make this soundtrack so well-loved the world over.
Crowbars up, snow shovels at the ready, let’s feel that gingerbread feeling!
Merry Christmas everyone!
Release
Home Alone 25th Anniversary Limited Edition La-La Land Records (2015)
Timestamps
Intro Tag: Xander Stobbs
Disc One
6:15 – 1. Home Alone (Main Theme)
9.57 – 2. Go Pack Your Suitcase/Introducing Marley/In Good Hands
14:50 – 3. Banished to the Attic
16:44 – 4. We Slept In/Hard Count
18:43 – 5. Making the Plane
19:44 – 6. The Basement
23:35 – 7. Target Practise/Sledding on the Stairs
26:49 – 8. Lights On/Guess Who’s Home/Paris Arrival
30:47 – 9. The Man of the House/Police Check
32:44 – 10. The Bookshelf
34:48 – 11. Phone Machine/Drug Store/Escape Across the Ice
38:45 – 12. Follow That Kid! [Film Version]
41:47 – 13. Listening to Carson
42:41 – 14. Cleaning Clothes/Kitchen
44:10 – 15. Scammed by a Kindergartner [Film Version]
46:55 – 16. Somewhere in my Memory (Walking Home) [Film Version]
49:34 – 17. O Holy Night [Film Version]
52:19 – 18. Star of Bethlehem [Film Version]
54:05 – 19. Carol of the Bells
56:03 – 20. Setting the Trap
1:01:22 – 21. The Attack Begins
1:03:37 – 22. Marv Enters the Basement/A Hot Hand/Sore Head
1:04:09 – The Chess Game (Harry Potter and the INSERT NAME Stone)
1:05:14 – 23. Paint Cans
1:06:41 – 24. Clothesline Trapeze/Marley to the Rescue
1:09:06 – 25. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas [Film Version]
1:09:58 – 26. The Next Morning/Mom Returns/Finale
1:14:04 – 27. We Wish You a Merry Christmas/End Title [Film Version]
Links
Anthony O’Toole’s Transcription & Analysis of Setting the Trap
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(Original Air Date – December 24th, 2017)
Join Will & Wend for their first Christmas Score Guide! In their final episode of 2017 they merrily explore a childhood classic, the 1990 comedy chrimbo movie, Home Alone, composed and conducted by masterful maestro, John Williams.
Your festive hosts shall be pulling back the composer’s christmassy curtain for you our loyal listener, to reveal themes, identify leitmotifs, and gush over instrumentation and all those sparkling musical moments that make this soundtrack so well-loved the world over.
Crowbars up, snow shovels at the ready, let’s feel that gingerbread feeling!
Merry Christmas everyone!
Release
Home Alone 25th Anniversary Limited Edition La-La Land Records (2015)
Timestamps
Intro Tag: Xander Stobbs
Disc One
6:15 – 1. Home Alone (Main Theme)
9.57 – 2. Go Pack Your Suitcase/Introducing Marley/In Good Hands
14:50 – 3. Banished to the Attic
16:44 – 4. We Slept In/Hard Count
18:43 – 5. Making the Plane
19:44 – 6. The Basement
23:35 – 7. Target Practise/Sledding on the Stairs
26:49 – 8. Lights On/Guess Who’s Home/Paris Arrival
30:47 – 9. The Man of the House/Police Check
32:44 – 10. The Bookshelf
34:48 – 11. Phone Machine/Drug Store/Escape Across the Ice
38:45 – 12. Follow That Kid! [Film Version]
41:47 – 13. Listening to Carson
42:41 – 14. Cleaning Clothes/Kitchen
44:10 – 15. Scammed by a Kindergartner [Film Version]
46:55 – 16. Somewhere in my Memory (Walking Home) [Film Version]
49:34 – 17. O Holy Night [Film Version]
52:19 – 18. Star of Bethlehem [Film Version]
54:05 – 19. Carol of the Bells
56:03 – 20. Setting the Trap
1:01:22 – 21. The Attack Begins
1:03:37 – 22. Marv Enters the Basement/A Hot Hand/Sore Head
1:04:09 – The Chess Game (Harry Potter and the INSERT NAME Stone)
1:05:14 – 23. Paint Cans
1:06:41 – 24. Clothesline Trapeze/Marley to the Rescue
1:09:06 – 25. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas [Film Version]
1:09:58 – 26. The Next Morning/Mom Returns/Finale
1:14:04 – 27. We Wish You a Merry Christmas/End Title [Film Version]
Links
Anthony O’Toole’s Transcription & Analysis of Setting the Trap