James Newton Howard
Wyatt Earp
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AMG Review of Wyatt Earp
Jason Ankeny
All Music GuideJames Newton Howard's luminous Wyatt Earp pays explicit homage to the classic Western scores of Hollywood greats like Dimitri Tiomkin and Alfred Newman. By turns rousing, tender, and bittersweet, it's music of mythic proportions, brilliantly evoking the grandeur of the Old West. Howard subjugates traditional action themes in favor of a pastoral approach channeling the everyday heroism of pioneer life: the hammer falls of railroad construction are given as much thematic attention as the climactic gunfight at the OK Corral, and romance and gunplay co-exist as equals, each the yin to the other's yang.
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