OBCR of FOLLIES remixed and remastered! — Page 8

let me join in and thank you BK all your hard work in bringing us the TERRIFIC sounding remaster...i have been enjoying mine this whole week...it sounds so new and fresh, and brings me back to when i saw this on Broadway in the Summer of 1971...

the SONDHEIMMANIAC

It's evolving as we speak - but no one's going to be licensing this mix for some time.

Not technical here so am amazed that even I can hear the difference. Particularly noticeable (to me) in Waiting Around for the Girls Upstairs, Who's That Woman and You're Gonna Love Tomorrow where I immediately heard it was the guy from The Baker's Wife recording - I knew intellectually that he (Kurt Peterson) was in there somewhere but I actually recognised his voice this time.

And when it came to Losing My Mind I had to stop what else I was doing and devote my whole attention to Ms Collin's performance - it was absolutely commanding.

thanks bk for this stunning re-issue. you still remain my favorite of all of laurie partridge's boyfriends!

Best 12: You are correct about the math, although the two other dealers who got copies don't pay the 20 bucks - thankfully that wasn't many copies. No, this isn't about profit - I'm always happy when something like this happens because it all goes back in to getting more projects. The remixes are always much more expensive, especially because I'm a perfectionist and won't stop until I'm completely sure we've done the absolute best we can. Happily, I have a wonderful remixing engineer, John Adams, who makes that part of the process easy - he knows exactly what I like in terms of overall sound, so once I've heard his initial versions then we just sit together for a few days and I nitpick the mixes until I think they're as good as they're going to get. It's all detail work and I love doing it because I love music and orchestrations and singers. At the end of the day, I just have to hope everyone likes the result because I'm so specific about what I think cast albums should sound like :)

Thanks for letting us in on the details! And giving credit where credit is due.

All I know is in the end you give us a very high quality product.

When I shell out the $$$ as a consumer, that's all I really ask for.

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Amen to all the laudatory comments above!

bk, I'm in no position to tell you your business. But I know there are universities in the Northeast and elsewhere that devote space and money to compiling old sheet music and play scripts.

It seems to me your work is just as authentically curatorial as digging through Cole Porter's trunk. I would love to see you and your engineer supported by a college library so your work would be properly compensated.

Haven't been this excited waiting for the postman in a while. Ah, the joys of living on the opposite side of the planet.

I just got mine too :), we both live in Australia I think...

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I was actually thinking about ordering it the other day, but realized they were sold out and worry that my reasons for dawdling might not meet bk's approval.

I really do! I'll email you now, baby.

Updated On: 8/6/12 at 07:38 PM

After hearing this remix, I would definitely place this with the other Lieberson and Shepard OBCRs of Sondheim shows. As I said, it's still abridged, but it just sounds so freakin' good! And that cast? You can't get any better than them! Many, many bravos, again!