Although the distribution of the every day more and more present and abundant "promo" records continues to be limited, and its opening price uses to be prohibitive, the opportunity seems to be open for a big amount of composers and collectors for which, the ones and the others, may offer and taste scores which, in any other case, will remain forgotten. This is the case of the, on his moment, rejected score by Elmer Bernstein for The Journey of Natty Gann. Premiered in 1985, Jeremy Paul Kagan's film was a peculiar Disney production, a road-movie set on the twenties Big Depression times, and this recovered music from the great Bernstein serve it just right. However, and as it happens with the splendid Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983), the studio decided to change the originally written score, on that case by Georges Delerue; on both times the beneficiary was the, at that time promising, James Horner and though Kagan's film is actually quite forgotten, any posibility to vision it will permit the unavoidable comparison between Bernstein's classic style, ondes martenot included, and Horner's more actual one. A.L.

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