SUMMARY: RUNNING TIME: 1:39 Min.
In 1985, composer/conductor Bill Conti and The London Symphony Orchestra released an instrumental album consisting of highlights from 1983’s The Right Stuff and 1985’s initial North and South TV mini-series. This short track is a thematically light backdrop for some North and South sequences set in pre-Civil War South Carolina.
Note: As of 2008, a limited-edition CD set of Conti highlights from North and South Books One & Two was released.
REVIEW:
Considering its short length, one can’t really knock composer-conductor Bill Conti’s unremarkable work on “Southern Life.” At least, he briefly incorporates slow-brewing discontent towards the public spectacle of pre-war Southern culture. This instrumental isn’t a primary North and South theme, but it quietly conveys the opulent Deep South world inhabited by some of the saga’s pivotal characters.
BRIAN’S ODD MOON RATING: 5 Stars
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