Flags of Our Fathers (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is the film score to the 2006 film Flags of Our Fathers directed, produced and scored by Clint Eastwood. The album was released under the Milan Records label on October 17, 2006, which featured Eastwood's score and source music from 18th and 19th century.
Clint Eastwood composed the film score to Flags of Our Fathers, in his third film as a composer after Mystic River (2003) and Million Dollar Baby (2004).[1][2] The score was recorded at the Eastwood Scoring Stage in Warner Bros. Studios Burbank.[2]Lennie Niehaus, who previously worked as composer on Eastwood's films, conducted and orchestrated the score.[3]
Marine Corps Combat Recordings, Iwo Jima, March 1945) (bonus
17:58
Total length:
77:31
Reception
James Leonard of AllMusic called that "Eastwood's score is spare, severe, and almost unbearably intense" describing it "first-rate movie music from start to finish.[5] Jim Santella of All About Jazz wrote "An extraordinary story requires though-provoking music to match, and here it is."[6] In contrast, Christian Clemmensen of Filmtracks wrote "Fans could only hope that if Eastwood continued to tackle large-scale cinematic dramas, he would eventually understand that every individual has his limits, and he is potentially (if not probably) damaging his own films by insisting upon scoring them himself."[7]
Mike Brennan of Soundtrack.Net wrote "It is a shame that a film depicting such a heroic event in World War II has such an uninspiring score".[8]Todd McCarthy of Variety called it a "spare, effective musical score."[9] Kaya Savas of MovieWeb wrote "Clint Eastwood provides another simple score for the film, and while it works for some of his movies it usually doesn't. I was not fond of the score for Mystic River, but I loved Million Dollar Baby's score. This film needed a different sound, and Eastwood's simple keys on the piano only works well near the end of the film. While the action sequences have no music I do think that a more experienced composer could have done wonders for the film."[10]
Executive producer – Clint Eastwood, Rob Lorenz, Emmanuel Chamboredon, Ian Hierons
Orchestra
Orchestrator and conductor – Lennie Niehaus
Orchestra leader – Lennie Niehaus
Orchestra contractor – Joyce Ryan
Concertmaster – Bruce Dukov
Instruments
Bass – Chris Kollgaard, Chuck Berghofer, Drew Dembowski, Ed Meares, Kenny Wild, Mike Valerio, Oscar Hidalgo
Cello – Armen Ksajikian, Chris Ermacoff, Dane Little, Erika Duke Kirkpatrick, Larry Corbett, Matt Cooker, Roger Lebow, Rowena Hammill, Tim Landauer, Trevor Handy, Vanessa Freebairn Smith
Clarinet – Gary Herbig, Joel Peskin, Larry Hughes, Phillip O'Connor
Electronic valve instrument – Judd Miller
Euphonium – Bill Reichenbach, Steve Holtman
Guitar – Bruce Forman, Dennis Budimir
Horn – Brad Warnaar, Brian O'Connor, David Duke, Joe Meyer, John Reynolds, Justin Hageman, Phillip Yao, Rick Todd
Keyboards – Mike Lang
Percussion – Alan Estes, Dan Greco, Don Williams, Emil Radocchia, Kim Edmundson
Saxophone – Dan Higgins, Gene Cipriano, Jack Nimitz, Lanny Morgan
Trombone – Andy Martin, Bill Watrous, Charlie Loper
Trumpet – Jack Sheldon, Rick Baptist, Ron Stout, Warren Luening
Tuba – Tommy Johnson, Norman Pearson
Viola – Andrew Duckles, Carrie Holzman, Dan Neufeld, Danny Seidenberg, Darrin McCann, Janet Lakatos, Karie Prescott, Kazi Pitelka, Matt Funes, Pamela Goldsmith, Kato Roland, Sam Formicola, Shawn Mann, Vicki Miskolczy
Violin – Amy Hershberger, Barbra Porter, Charles Bisharat, Claudia Parducci, Darius Campo, David Ewart, Debra Price, Gil Romero, Haim Shtrum, Horia Moroaica, Jackie Brand, Jennifer Levin, Katia Popov, Marc Sazer, Margaret Wooten, Mike Markman, Natalie Leggett, Olivia Tsui, Pat Johnson, Raphael Rishik, Razdan Kuyumjian, Robin Olson, Tiffany Yi Hu
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