Day After Tomorrow Soundtrack CD

Harald Kloser's score for the environmental disaster film The Day After Tomorrow has an appropriately epic, orchestral heft. Mixing slow, implosive passages with sudden outbursts, pieces like "Tornado Warning," and "Sam!" mirror the film's concept of sudden, radical climate shifts wreaking havoc on the U.S.. Even the tracks that have a relatively consistent mood are juxtaposed to create contrast: the mounting panic implied by the squalling horns and percussion in the aptly crashing "Tidal Wave" and the tense "Russian Ghost Ship" is followed by the bittersweet calm of tracks like "Body Heat" and "Hall's Plan." For the most part, the score is ominous; although a few rays of hope peek through on tracks such as "Bedtime Story," "Cutting the Rope," and "President's Speech"; the grim drama of "Blizzard" and "Superfreeze," and the bleak strings on "Because of You" set the tone for the film's music. Despite the score's powerful feel, its pieces are remarkably short, with few of them topping the three-and-a-half minute mark. Given the film's spectacular nature, Kloser could have tried to compete with the visuals and crafted an overblown score, but the conciseness of his music gives the film a little more balance. The score's closing pieces, "The Human Spirit" and "Burning Books," border on the melodramatic, but most of The Day After Tomorrow is an effective counterpoint to the movie's act

Original score composed by Harald Kloser.

Composer: Harald Kloser.

Personnel: Carmel Echols (vocals); Amy Shulman, Gayle Levant (harp); Elizabeth Wilson (violin, viola); Assa Drori, Al Hershberger, Miran Kojian, Carolyn Osborn, Jennifer Munday, Katia Popov, Tamara L. Hatwan, Robin Olson, Aimee Kreston, Helen Nightengale, Barbara Porter, Pat Johnson , Kathleen Robertson, Bing Wang, Olivia Tsui, Julian Hallmark, Jayme Miller, Mark Baranov, Pip Clarke-Ling, Becky Bunnell, Connie Kupka, Agnes Gottschewski, Norm Hughes, Robert Brousseau, Franklyn d'Antonio, Joel Derouin, Sid Page, Roberto Cani, Kirstin Fife, Clayton Haslop, Peter Kent, Natalie Leggett, Phillipe Levy, Sara Parkins, Barry Socher, Sarah Thornblade, Roger Wilkie, Margaret Wooten, Tiffiany Yi Hu, Armen Garabedian, Darius Campo, Michael Markman, Josephina Vergara, Dimitrie Leivici, Berj Garabedian, Belinda Broughton, Miwako Watanabe, Rafael Rishik, Charlie Bisharat, Mario Diaz de Leon, Haim Shtrum (violin); Andrew Picken, Karen Elaine Bakunin, Karie Prescott, Carrie Holzman-Little, Cheryl Kohfeld, Karen Van Sant, Vicki Miskolczy, John Scanlon, Pamela Goldsmith, Brian Dembow, Jennie Hansen, Janet Lakatos, Maria Newman, Simon Oswell, David Stenske, David F. Walther, Evan Wilson, Bob Becker , Denyse Buffum (viola); Paula Hochhalter, Trevor Handy, Timothy Landauer, Dennis Karmazyn, Doug Davis , Suzie Katayama, Paul Cohen , Larry Corbett, Erika Duke-Kirkpartick, Armen Ksadjikian, Andrew Shulman, Cecilia Tsan, Steve Richards , Stefanie Fife, Todd Hemmenway, Christine Ermacoff (cello); Susan Greenberg, Heather Calrk, Jim Walker , Steve Kujala, Geri Rotella (flute); Mike Grego, Gary Gray, Jimmy Ercole, Gary Bovyer, Charles Boito (clarinet); Catherine del Russo, Joel Timm, Joe Stone, Phil Ayling (oboe); John Mitchell J. , Rose Corrigan, David Riddles (bassoon); Bob O'Donnell, Jr., Jon Lewis , Larry Hall , Rick Baptist, Warren Luening, Wayne Bergeron, Charlie Davis (trumpet); Alexander Isles, Bill Booth, Alan Kaplan, Andy Martin, Bob Payne (trombone); Bob Sanders (bass trombone); Ross de Roche, John VanHouten, Tommy Johnson (tuba); Paul Klintworth, Daniel Kelley, Jim Atkinson, John A. Reynolds, David Duke, Nathan Campbell, Phil Yao, Bradley Kintscher, Joe Meyer , Steve Becknell, Kurt Snyder, Rick Todd, Brian O'Connor, Jim Thatcher (horns); Tom Ranier, Brian Pezzone (piano); Tom Raney (timpani); Alan Estes, Dan Greco, Gregory Goodall, Mike Englander, M.B. Gordy, Wade Culbreath, Brian Kilgore (percussion).

Audio Mixer: Armin Steiner.

Recording information: Newman Scoring Stage at Twentieth Century Fox.