Original Soundtrack on CD!
The complete score is available on CD from Film Score Monthly-$19.95-to order-www,screenarchives.com-Thanks-Adam-:)
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I met Elmer Berstein at an appearance he made in Santa Monica a couple of years ago and brought a couple of record albums with me for him to sign. As he was signing I told him the one score I wished I could have brought with me was "The World of Henry Orient". He replied that there never was an an album of this score. I knew that and that's why I mentioned it. The CD of this wonderful score came out shortly after he died. I wish he were around to sign my copy of it, he was the best!
shareIn a letter Mr. Bernstein wrote on September 9, 1999 (9-9-99), he told me: "When you write as many scores as I have, it becomes difficult to remember them all, but actually «The World of Henry Orient» is also one of my personal favorites". In this and in a second letter he regreted that his score for «Kings of the Sun» was not available. It was posthumously released in 2006.
Here you can read both letters:
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Edgar, Your letters were very interesting. Thank you for sharing. What surprised me was that he lived in the same zip code that I do, in a neighborhood near where I work. His house was more humble than I would have expected of a big time Hollywood composer. Maybe there were some divorces which got in the way. I don't know anything about his personal life.
"It costs extra to carve 'Schmuck' on a tombstone, but you would definitely be worth it."
He apparently had more than one home. This could also be the address of an office. I don't know. He had only one divorce behind him, according to IMDb.
Wikipedia says:
"Bernstein made his home in Hope Ranch in Santa Barbara, California, in the 1990s. Bernstein died of cancer in his sleep at his Ojai, California, home on August 18, 2004".