A brand-new Intrada reissue of two 1962 film scores composed and conducted by Elmer Bernstein on a single CD I've ripped to FLAC.
The differing subject matter of the two films results in two markedly different scores.
To Kill A Mockingbird is on the whole one I'd characterize as contemplative (though a couple of ostinato-punctuated tracks remind me of Bernstein's 1960 go at
The Magnificent Seven).
Walk on the Wild Side is largely jazzy slinky, reflecting its New Orleans bordello-tragic setting and reminiscent, though not derivative, of the composer's score for 1955's
The Man with the Golden Arm.
Reportedly sourced from the original first-generation stereo masters.