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Submit Your ReviewThe Great Debaters pairs composers James Newton Howard and Peter Golub, in effect bringing together mainstream, big-budget Hollywood and its independent, low-budget sibling from the wrong side of the tracks. As one might expect, it's far from a seamless marriage: Howard's sweeping, epic melodies and Golub's homespun, acoustic folksiness make for an awkward fit, and never quite capture the film's period Southern locale. Howard ultimately fares better than Golub, if only because the inspirational, true-life narrative is right in the composer's wheelhouse -- cues like "Letter from Harvard" and "James' Speech" effortlessly achieve the kind of heroic, larger-than-life scale that remain his signature. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Music Guide
The Great Debaters (Original Score)
12/18/2007
All Music Guide Review
The Great Debaters (Original Score) Track Listing
Credits of The Great Debaters (Original Score)
- Robert Townson
- Executive Producer
- Geoff Foster
- Score Reader
- G. Marq Roswell
- Music Supervisor
- Todd Kasow
- Music Editor
- John Parricelli
- Guitar
- Maya Beiser
- Cello
- Peter Golub
- Producer
- Gavin Greenaway
- Conductor
- Barbara McDermott
- Assistant Music Editor
- Chris Cozens
- Auricle Programming
- Rosemary Warren Green
- Orchestra Leader
- Dave Holden
- Technical Score Advisor
- Chris P. Bacon
- Technical Score Advisor
- Julia Newmann
- Score Assistance
- Pamela J. Sollie
- Score Coordinator
- Hugh Burns
- Guitar
- Richard E. Grant
- Auricle Programming
- Isobel Griffiths
- Orchestra Contractor
- Joel Iwataki
- Score Mixer
- James Newton Howard
- Producer
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