Academic request: Alan Silvestri articles. Please help!!!

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Hi,

I'm a university student in England and occasional poster to this forum. I'm writing my film master's dissertation on the Back to the Future trilogy and would like to get some info on Alan Silvestri, who composed the music for the films. I have hunted high and low and have now learned that I am unable to purchase back issues of most of these magazines listed below.

If anyone has any of these lurking in their attic, I would be most grateful of a scanned article (or as many as you have!). I will of course pay you for your trouble or perhaps we can work out some sort of swap.

It's really important that I get these articles, purely from an academic reserach standpoint.

Please e-mail me at chasrowe2@hotmail.com if you can help in any way. Time is of the essence and I would be extremely thankful. Many thanks in advance.

Soundtrack

Vol.XIV nr.53 (Mar 1995); p.14-15

1995

No. 53

Neckebroeck, Kjell

'Alan Silvestri's Lego set'.

Soundtrack

Vol.VIII nr.31 (Sept 1989); p.26-27

1989

No. 31

Larson, Randall D.

'Music for Who framed Roger Rabbit'.

Fall 2000 - #75 - Vol. 19 - page 33-42

"What Lies Beneath: The Supernatural Thrills of Alan Silvestri"

Interview and Photography by Rudy Koppl

Summer 2000 - #74 - Vol. 19 - page 39

"Mission: Impossible - Composer Alan Silvestri Disavowed"

By Ford A. Thaxton and Randall D. Larson

Short story (only half a page and no interview) about why and how Alan got replaced by Danny Elfman on M:I

Spring 2000 - #73 - Vol. 19 - page 4 and 5

"Alan Silvestri: From Stuart Little to Reindeer Games"

Interview by Ford A. Thaxton

December 1997 - #64 - Vol. 16 - page 28 and 29

"Blown Away - Score Analysis"

By Kjell Neckebroeck

Very positive in depth analysis of Blown Away

September 1997 - #63 - Vol. 16 - page 18-21

"Making Contact with Alan Silvestri" - page 18 and 19

Interview by Randall D. Larson

Interview with Alan about Contact

"A Conversation with Alan Silvestri" - page 20 and 21

By Tony Buchsbaum

Interview with Alan about Zemeckis and Contact

Page 20 also contains a (positive) review of the Contact soundtrack CD

March 1991 - #37 - Vol. 10 - page 4-9

"An Interview with Alan Silvestri - from Romances to Predators"

Interview by Randall D. Larson

Very interesting, long interview about his youth, early days and practically all his films until Predator

December 1989 - #32 - Vol. 8 - page 14

"Alan Silvestri 'Mac and Me'"

Interview by Randall D. Larson

Short interview about Mac and Me and about electronic music.

September 1989 - #31 - Vol. 8 - page 26 and 27

"Music for Who framed Roger Rabbit"

Interview by Randall D. Larson

Interview purely about Who framed Roger Rabbit

March 1988 - #25 - Vol. 7 - page 5-7

"Film music seminar part 3"

Interview by Richard Kraft

Very interesting interview with Alan about his early days until Back to the Future

Film Score MonthlyApril/May 2001 - #4 - Vol. 6 - page 14 and 15

"Summer Startups - The Mummy Returns"

By Jeff Bond

Interview with Alan about the thematical and scheduling aspects of The Mummy Returns (online exerpt)

March / April 1995 - #55 / 56 - Vol. 1 - page 22

"Alan Silvestri scoring The Quick and the Dead"

Interview by Daniel Schweiger

Short, but interesting interview mainly about The Quick and the Dead but also about several other things

October 1994 - #50 - Vol. 1 - page 12-15

"The Alan Silvestri Interview"

By Andy Dursin

Interesting, long interview (by phone!) mainly about Forrest Gump, but also about a lot of other things

Music from the MoviesFall 2001 - #31 / 32

Alan Silvestri on The Mummy Returns

Spring 1995 - #8 - page 30 and 31

"Alan Silvestri - Judge Dredd"

Interview and photos by Paul Place

Report from author of his attendance at the recording sessions of Judge Dredd in England

The SCORE (magazine from The Society of Composers & Lyricists)

Fall 1995 - #3 - Vol. X - page 10, 11, 12 and 16

"An Interview With Alan Silvestri"

By Marc Parmet

Movie Music (magazine from The Goldsmith Society)

Winter 1990 - #1 - page 53 and 54

"Alan Silvestri Profile"

By Michael Jenner

An Alan Silvestri profile in the form of a short biography

"James Campbell: Silvestri's Right-Hand Man"

By John Williams

Short interview with Alan's former orchestrator, including a photo of Campbell (very rare stuff, because not much is known about him)

[Guest]

Why not just try to go to the source and get in touch with Silvestri himself? My friend from college got a hold of Bruce Broughton for a senior lecture (albeit, the mutual connection to the Salvation Army helped too), but I say if my friend got a hold of Broughton, you can do Silvestri, my friend.

One thing I learned when I was doing a news article for my media writing class is, "Ask and ye shall receive." People are more than willing to help with major college projects. Granted, when I tried to get a hold of Mel Gibson for my news story, I failed miserably, but hey...how popular is Silvestri compared to Gibson? His scores are rejected and accredited to JW. You really think they'd turn you down? Not likely (unless it's a music school where James Campbell teaches and the associate director of the school won't divulge contact info out respect to the faculty--which is similar to why I didn't talk to Gibson).

However, this free encouragement is about all I can help you with. About the only direction I could point you in is Ford Thaxton's. Last I knew (which was a few years ago), his screenname on AIM was Fordat1. Other than that, I don't really know anyone.

[Lurker 5]

Yes, you can e-mail Ford Thaxton at fordat1@aol.com. I don't know if that will help you or not, but it's worth a try. It's well known that Ford prefers e-mail.

Also, I know that Film Score Monthly has many back issues for sale. Check out their web site at Film Score Monthly.com.

Neil

[Jim Ware 526]

I would suggest getting in touch with the Gorfaine-Schwartz agency, who represent Alan Silvestri (and many other composers, including John Williams).

Try www.gsamusic.com

or writing to them at:

The Gorfaine/Schwartz Agency, Inc.

13245 Riverside Drive, Suite 450

Sherman Oaks, CA 91423