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From: BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com>
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Subject: Engraving THE SWARM
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2025 22:39:33 -0000 (UTC)
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I got assigned to engrave the cue "The Bees Attack" from THE SWARM-- one of my
top candidates in all of cinema history for the award of "Worst Movie to Have
a Fantastic Musical Score". JAWS 2 and SPACE CAMP being close in the running.

The filmmakers had no idea how damn fortunate they were to have such a
beautiful score composed for such a cheeseball film.

While setting up my orchestra template, I realized that Goldsmith's central
motif for the swarm itself starts like this:

https://ibb.co/5h02jVmS

Note the triplet figure in beat one...  the notes are B-E-E!

Nice one, Jerry. Well done.