Douglass Pretend, founding father of main film soundtrack label Intrada and producer of greater than 700 albums of film and TV music, died Saturday at a Richmond, Calif., hospital after a protracted sickness. He was 72.
Pretend’s many credit embrace the primary full restoration of Leonard Bernstein’s “On the Waterfront,” a lavish 5-CD launch of Elmer Bernstein’s “The Ten Commandments” and the debut of a number of Henry Mancini scores together with “Breakfast at Tiffany’s,” beforehand solely accessible in abridged pop recordings.
Among the many label’s greatest sellers had been expansions of beforehand incomplete recordings of such classics as John Williams’ “Jaws,” Alan Silvestri’s “Again to the Future” and Jerry Goldsmith’s “Alien.” Pretend additionally supervised the re-recording of a dozen albums of traditional movie music together with Bernard Herrmann’s “The Man Who Knew Too A lot” and Miklos Rozsa’s “Ivanhoe,” “Spellbound” and “Julius Caesar.”
A longtime film-music fan, Pretend launched Intrada Data in 1985 with the primary launch of Basil Poledouris’ music for “Crimson Daybreak.” Goldsmith’s “Poltergeist II” quickly adopted and have become the primary of some 85 Goldsmith releases together with “Patton,” “Chinatown” and “The Wind and the Lion.” Pretend additionally re-recorded such beforehand unavailable Goldsmith scores as “Islands within the Stream” and “Rio Conchos.”
Pretend partnered with different composers for the discharge of dozens of different soundtrack albums, together with Laurence Rosenthal (“Becket,” “The Miracle Employee”), Bruce Broughton (“Tombstone”) and James Horner (“The Woman in Crimson,” “Troy”). He even managed to license soundtracks from the Disney firm (which usually does its personal releases) together with “20,000 Leagues Below the Sea,” “The Black Gap” and “The Avengers.”
Greater than half of Intrada’s output stays unavailable on streaming platforms, which makes their bodily CDs collectible amongst soundtrack aficionados. Nevertheless, the label provides studios with pristine digital copies of what had been typically decaying grasp tapes, which develop into a useful a part of the musical legacy of Hollywood.
Pretend was born Feb. 23, 1952, in Massachusetts, the son of an Air Pressure colonel. He was a trumpet participant in highschool and studied music on the College of Colorado. He wrote and recorded quite a few symphonic band items (and finally scored a movie himself, the unreleased “Holly vs. Hollywood”).
Finally he bought soundtrack LPs at a movie-poster store in San Francisco, which led to his creation of Intrada Data. He averaged the discharge of 40 albums a 12 months on the top of the CD period, and celebrated the thirtieth anniversary of the label in 2015 at L.A.’s Walt Disney Live performance Corridor.
Mentioned Roger Feigelson, VP of enterprise affairs on the label: “We plan to proceed operation of the shop and label effectively into subsequent 12 months, to have a good time Intrada’s fortieth anniversary. We’re excited to share some titles which have been in improvement for a very long time. The enterprise is wholesome, the market is steady — it simply gained’t be as a lot enjoyable with out Doug.”
He’s survived by his spouse Mary Ann, daughters Regina and Veronika, sister Peggy and granddaughter Amelia. A celebration of his life and different tributes will likely be introduced shortly.