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Rare Bernard Herrmann Score To “12-Mile Reef” Resurfaces On CD

March 19, 2015 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Beneath the 12-Mile ReefRomeo and Juliet at sea? Such was the premise behind 1953’s epic adventure Beneath the 12-Mile Reef. Only the third film shot in the widescreen CinemaScope process, the Twentieth Century Fox film starred Robert Wagner and Terry Moore as the star-crossed lovers from warring families on Florida’s Gulf Coast. Adding luster to the picture was the score by Bernard Herrmann. By 1953, Herrmann was already well-known for his Oscar-winning score to The Devil and Daniel Webster and nominees Citizen Kane and Anna and the King of Siam; his career-defining triumphs with director Alfred Hitchcock were still ahead of him. Kritzerland has recently announced a new 1,000-unit limited edition reissue of Herrmann’s score to Beneath the 12-Mile Reef.

In its press release, the label offers that “Herrmann’s score, in thrilling stereophonic sound, immediately drew audiences into its unusual musical soundscape, weaving an evocative spell with its incredible orchestral colors. The film may be standard issue drama, but it was those underwater sequences that held audiences in thrall. That and the completely unique Herrmann score. To evoke the underwater world of Beneath the 12-Mile Reef, Herrmann employed nine harps, each with its own separate part. The score perfectly captures the mysterious underwater world – sinuous, hypnotic, flowing – a spellbinding tone poem that even today mesmerizes with its intense beauty. Since this was his first score to be recorded in multi-track stereo, Herrmann went so far as to include diagrams for instrument and microphone placement on his manuscript for the score. Needless to say, the resulting score remains one of Herrmann’s greatest.”

Beneath the 12-Mile Reef was released on CD in the early days of the Film Score Monthly label, and was later included in Varese Sarabande’s Bernard Herrmann at Fox box set. For that presentation, the score was extensively restored and remixed by Mike Matessino. Kritzerland’s reissue makes Matessino’s sterling work available on stand-alone CD for the first time.  It follows the label’s similar reissue of Herrmann’s score to the sci-fi classic The Day the Earth Stood Still.

Though scheduled for release in the first week of May, Beneath the 12-Mile Reef will likely arrive earlier for those who pre-order directly from Kritzerland. (Pre-orders typically arrive an average of two to four weeks early.) The link to order is just below!

Bernard Herrmann, Beneath the 12-Mile Reef (Kritzerland, 2015)

  1. Prelude
  2. The Undersea
  3. The Boat
  4. The Homecoming
  5. The Reef
  6. The Glades
  7. The Quiet Sea
  8. The Airline
  9. The Conch Boat
  10. The Harbor
  11. The Search
  12. Flirtation
  13. The Departure
  14. The Marker
  15. The Undersea Forest
  16. Elegy
  17. The Fire
  18. Sorrow
  19. The Dock
  20. Escape
  21. The Lagoon
  22. Consolation
  23. The Grave
  24. The New Boat/The Buoy
  25. Descending
  26. The Sea Garden
  27. The Octopus
  28. The Hookboat
  29. The Fight
  30. Finale

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Joe Marchese

JOE MARCHESE (Editor) joined The Second Disc shortly after its launch in early 2010, and has since penned daily news and reviews about classic music of all genres. In 2015, Joe formed the Second Disc Records label. Celebrating the great songwriters, producers and artists who created the sound of American popular song, Second Disc Records, in conjunction with Real Gone Music, has released newly-curated collections produced by Joe from iconic artists such as Johnny Mathis, Bobby Darin, Laura Nyro, Melissa Manchester, Chet Atkins, and many others. He has contributed liner notes to reissues from a diverse array of artists, among them Nat "King" Cole, Paul Williams, Lesley Gore, Dusty Springfield, B.J. Thomas, The 5th Dimension, Burt Bacharach, The Mamas and the Papas, Carpenters, Perry Como, Rod McKuen, Doris Day, Jackie DeShannon, and Andy Williams, and has compiled releases for talents including Robert Goulet and Keith Allison of Paul Revere and the Raiders. Over the past two decades, Joe has also worked in a variety of capacities on and off Broadway as well as at some of the premier theatres in the U.S., including Lincoln Center Theater, George Street Playhouse, Paper Mill Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre, and the York Theatre Company. He has felt privileged to work on productions alongside artists such as the late Jack Klugman, Eli Wallach, Arthur Laurents, Betty Comden and Adolph Green. In 2009, Joe began contributing theatre and music reviews to the print publication The Sondheim Review, and in 2012, he joined the staff of The Digital Bits as a regular contributor writing about film and television on DVD and Blu-ray. Joe currently resides in the suburbs of New York City.

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Comments

  1. Lawrence Schulman says

    March 19, 2015 at 10:21 am

    Thanks for the heads-up, Joe. I cannot think about Herrmann without the score to “The Ghost and Mrs. Muir,” which would be my single desert island movie. What a score! Masterful.

    Reply
    • Joe Marchese says

      March 19, 2015 at 12:39 pm

      I couldn’t agree more!

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