Lilies Of The Field: An Original Soundtrack Recording [Soundtrack]

Jerry Goldsmith | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 21, 1997)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Label: Epic Records
• ASIN: B000001ZCW
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #320,952 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Main Title

2. Homer Returns

3. The Roof

4. Homer Awakes/Breakfast

5. Feed The Slaves/Drive To Mass

6. Amen/Sunday Morning/Amen - Jerry Goldsmith/Jester Hairston

7. The Contractor

8. Out Of Bricks

9. No Hammer/Return Of The Prodigal

10. Lots of Bricks/Aid Given/Aid Rejected

11. Amn - Jerry Goldsmith/Jester Hairston

12. End Title/End Cast

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Goldsmith Mixes Gospel and Americana, June 20, 2001

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gobirds2 (New England) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Lilies Of The Field: An Original Soundtrack Recording (Audio CD)

This is a highly underrated and great score from Jerry Goldsmith. Mainly remembered for the song `Amen' Jerry Goldsmith's folksy score however contains inspired landmark music in the greatest tradition of Southwestern Americana. It is really one of his best scores. It would seem that both he and Elmer Bernstein were running parallel courses in their musical idioms during this period of their careers. This score is a precursor to Goldsmith's magnificent score for the 1966 remake of STAGECOACH.

2 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Gentle and Sincere Score for a small Film, June 21, 2000

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René van Os (Beek & Donk Netherlands) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Lilies Of The Field: An Original Soundtrack Recording (Audio CD)

Lilies of the Field was a small film, aimed at general audiences. It was made in the early sixties and made Sidney Poitier a definite star. Jerry Goldsmith's music score, one of his first LP releases at the time, features a series of gentle themes in a bucholic setting very reminiscent of his later work for STAGECOACH, THE FLIM FLAM MAN and THE WALTONS. Using a small orchestra (the size was about the same as the general size of an orchestra during his Twilight Zone episodes), Goldsmith managed to imbue his themes with a very rural, almost country-ish sense. The orchestra consisted of some strings, brass, a harmonica and some woodwinds but nothing of sophistication. Thematically Goldsmith played around liberally with jaunty, fun themes, full of joy and happiness. How this seemed to fit in the film was as miraculous as the fact that Mr. Poitier got an Oscar nomination. The film dealt with a bunch of Polish nuns who wanted to have a local church built and Poitier stumbles in on them as a soldier on the run, who is finally conned by the nuns to build that church. Mr. Poitier delivered a good performance but other than the fact that he was probably the first black man with a big part since Hattie McDaniel, there was nothing extraordinary about his performance. The music starts off with the same feeling but then something more happens: Goldsmith managed to create a modest atmosphere of the outdoors, of being happy with what little you have. His thematic material centered around one cue that was also vocalized by Jester Hairston in a memorable AMEN church song. All in all, a fine and sincere score, certainly not to be compared with Jerry's later big scores but certainly a stepping stone, that made it possible for him to move on. Even now, nearly fourty years later, it is still fun to listen to.