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*** This Lord Of the Ring's inspired classical concert suite was conceived for and originally submitted to the show-runners for consideration for Amazon Prime's Lord Of The Rings TV Series. *** Months ago in mid 2019, I recorded and submitted this demo suite of themes and score music to friends & colleagues of mine who are the showrunners for Amazon's Lord Of The Rings series to be considered to be their composer for the show. I knew the political stakes were high for the "composer hire" a show of this budget and stature and I am very grateful and blessed for the opportunity that my music was able to be submitted and listened to by the showrunners. While I now know that I will not be the composer on the show, and I debated myself over the last few months about whether I make the music I wrote for them public, I ultimately decided that I was proud enough and honored to have worked with the amazing AFM Local 47 musicians in Los Angeles on this demo, I felt it should be out there in the world and not lost to the world. The team I assembled to produce this demo package was the best of the best in Hollywood. Many thanks to Noah Gladstone, Adam Michalak and the team at Hollywood Scoring, my dear colleague Lisa K. Fowle (not on facebook) for her wonderful mix, my orchestrator and teammate Ryan Humphrey. Landon Donoho for the wonderful imagery and video edit. And of course all the amazing Local 47 players in the orchestra, including concert master Mark Robertson, soloists Phil O'Connor, Dylan Skye Hart, Rob Schaer, Chris Bleth and LA Master Chorale soprano vocalist Karen Hogle Brown. Instead of releasing it as a retrospective to my work in 2019, I felt it should instead be released on January 1, 2020, symbolic of the beginning of a new chapter and outlook going forward this year in hopes that I can manifest something out of this score demo suite. Ultimately now...I own and control all of the music, themes, arrangements and orchestrations performed in this video and if the right project comes along...(oh say....maybe an other-worldly epic fantasy adventure with dragons and swords)...it could be theirs for their show. I am calling the music suite: "I Think I'm Quite ready For Another Adventure." Please enjoy!
"I Think I'm Quite Ready For Another Adventure" classical concert suite
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I Think I'm Quite Ready For Another Adventure
Biography

2021 Hollywood Media in Music Award winner, composer and conductor Brian Ralston has spent the past 22 years creating compelling, heart-pounding, uplifting, and beautifully melodic tracks that delight and inspire audiences. His creative gifts lend themselves to an extremely rich and beautiful sound that can not only be seen, but felt throughout his works.

A graduate of the USC Scoring for Motion Pictures & Television program from the University of Southern California in 2002, his studies and musical background sparked an extraordinary desire to enhance the heart of a film’s narrative with the language of music.

Ralston is best known for his work on the film score for “Crooked Arrows” (20th Century Fox), the first mainstream Hollywood movie about lacrosse, starring Brandon Routh (“Superman Returns”) and Gil Birmingham (“Wind River”, “Hell or High Water”), directed by Steve Rash (“Buddy Holly Story”, “Can‘t Buy Me Love”). The score reflects richly thematic melodies set against the thrill of victory and the pains of defeat in the action-packed sports drama, which has won him much praise within the film community. Of Brian‘s Crooked Arrows score, Daniel Schweiger of Film Music Magazine says, "It‘s this kind of constantly surprising depth and sense of sports adventure that will hopefully let "Crooked Arrows" fly Ralston straight, and deservedly into the big leagues with his terrific score that‘s seemingly shot out of from nowhere."

More recently, Ralston worked on the intimate western inspired score to the dramatic love story “Being Rose”, starring Cybill Shepherd, James Brolin, and Pam Grier which hit theaters nationwide January 2019. A soundtrack on the Notefornote Music label is available. Brian has also recently scored the Chris Chan Lee directed Sci-Fi drama “Silent River” which premiered at the LA Asian Pacific Film Festival in October 2021 and was released theatrically in October 2022. And Brian's 1989 indie love film about connection titled "About Him & Her" starring Callan McAuliffe and Cristina Spruell was released theatrically in the Los Angeles market December 3, 2021 and is available now on Amazon Prime.

Ralston lives with his wife, Heather and daughter, and makes time to give back to future generations of composers by serving as an instructor of "The Business Of Film Music" course for the UCLA Film Scoring program.