Special Moments CD

The Composer. Loretta Jankowski composed all of the music except for track one. She received her musical training at several schools of music in this country, as well as in England and Poland. Her music has been performed by many orchestras, including the Chicago Symphony and the New Jersey Symphony. Loretta began to collaborate with Phosphorus Alights shortly after its creation; composed the music for one of the shorts Warren and Fred did, and then composed the soundtrack for The Empiricist. The Soundtrack CD could have consisted of an exact rendition of the music heard during the playing of the movie, which was 44 separate tracks. But Warren and Fred decided on a different approach, which is as follows: the entire Mendelssohn piece was recorded, instead of the bits and pieces of his theme that appear in the movie's soundtrack; the same with Winston's Theme; and with Claire's Theme. Then to add variety to the CD, six tracks from the movie's soundtrack were included: Balstrom's Theme, Latter at Night, Valerie's Theme, The Confrontation, Winding Down, and the song that plays at the end of the movie You and Me Together, Forever. The Recording Technique. Due to the uniqueness of the recording technique, it is warranted to briefly describe it. Typically, when recording many instruments, a microphone is assigned to each instrument (and with some instruments, such as percussion, several microphones can be assigned). As a result, the initial recording consists of many tracks (sometimes over 100), which have to be reduced to the two stereo tracks that appear on the final CD. The reducing of the initial many tracks to the final two is called "mixing the music". It can take hours to place all ...