The Promise - Gabriel Yared

5/1/17​
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New life goal: that mustache.
What You Will Hear:  Light strings and woodwinds.  Traditional songs from the era and location mix in with the score.  An end credits rock ballad.

Standout Tracks: Voyage to Constantinople, Promenade, Ana and Michael, Going Up the Mountain, Mourning, The Promise
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Will You Be Humming Along?  I’ll attempt (and fail) to sing along with any Chris Cornell song.  The score also features a short theme featured at the very opening and closing of the orchestra cues.
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I'm off on the rhythm, but you'll get the idea.
T​he album this makes me want to dust off:  Wolf Totem – James Horner

Will I come back to it?  Based on the score, this is most definitely a love story told during wartime.  Not a war movie that includes romance.  The Promise is full of sorrowful beauty that never finds a happy ending.  I kept waiting for a sweeping theme to erupt but it doesn’t happen.  Without seeing the movie, I think it probably fits the story well.  There are a few adventurous and tense moments, but nothing worth mentioning.  Yared’s lush writing for strings is quite enjoyable – soothing but mournful from start to finish.
The Promise was provided courtesy of
​The Krakower Group and Lakeshore Records.  Thank you!

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