In 1978, I scored the music for a film promoting the School of American Craftsmen and School of Art and Design at the world renowned Rochester Institute of Technology. My challenge was to create “tone poems” as an emotional connection to each department within the schools. The first 5 tracks were recorded and mixed in 4-hours, thanks to six very talented musicians from the Eastman School of Music. For the final 4 tracks, I fired up my 4-track reel-to-reel deck and entered the world of the “one-man-band” for the first time. That process is much easier today with computers and MIDI, but in 1978 I was way ahead of the curve! The folks at RIT were so happy with the project that they asked me to produce the music score on an LP album to be distributed to prospective students nationwide. Once mastered and pressed, that was the last I heard about the project until 30 years later, when the last sealed copies of the LP were sold on eBay for more money than I recall being paid in 1978 to produce the entire project! Since then, music from the film has been licensed internationally and heard worldwide, leading me to produce this “Collector Limited Edition.” I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed working (and playing) on it.
