| Wendy Cracked a Walnut: Original Soundtrack Recording | |
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| Soundtrack album by Bruce Smeaton | |
| Released | 1991(1M1CD1007) |
| Recorded | 1990 |
| Genre | Score |
| Language | English |
| Label | 1M1 Records |
| Producer | Philip Powers |
Wendy Cracked a Walnut: Original Soundtrack Recording is the soundtrack album from the 1990 Australian film Wendy Cracked a Walnut .
Wendy Cracked a Walnut is a 1990 Australian comedy film directed by Michael Pattinson and starring Rosanna Arquette and Bruce Spence.
This CD features music by the composer Bruce Smeaton. [1]
Bruce Smeaton is an Australian composer who is well known for a variety of Australian film and television scores in all genres, including features, shorts, television, documentaries and advertisements. His scores include Picnic at Hanging Rock, Seven Little Australians, Roxanne, Iceman, and Circle of Iron. He has won the Australian Film Institute (AFI) Best Original Music Score award for The Cars That Ate Paris (1974), The Great Macarthy (1975), The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978) and Street Hero.
The soundtrack was well received by fans of Bruce Smeaton's music. His ground-breaking synthesized score for Wendy Cracked a Walnut's soundtrack was nominated for an ARIA Award in 1991 for Best Soundtrack / Cast / Show Album. [2]
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Philip Powers is a record producer specialising in scores and classical music. His recordings have been nominated for five ARIA Awards. He has produced 34 CDs for the 1M1 Records label including The Lighthorsemen and The Coolangatta Gold and he has also produced or been executive producer of more than 50 CDs for the Sydney Symphony Orchestra on the Sydney Symphony Live label. A number of these have been with the conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy as well as two CDs with the conductor Gianluigi Gelmetti. Another CD featured Vladimir Ashkenazy as pianist playing rare Rachmaninov works. He was also supervising producer of Sir Charles Mackerras, a double CD featuring famous Czech repertoire and Richard Strauss' Also sprach Zarathustra conducted by Sir Charles Mackerras.
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