Trinity and Beyond Motion Picture Soundtrack CD

Track Listings
1. Monument Site / 100 Tons of TNT    
2. Newsreel    
3. Fat Man and Little Boy    
4. Hiroshima / Nagasaki Requiem    
5. Operation Crossroads    
6. Armada Annihilation    
7. Deus Vult    
8. Nautical Graveyard    
9. Operation Sandstone    
10. Improved Stockpile Bomb    
11. Russia Gets the Bomb    
12. Operation Ranger-Able    
13. Operation Greenhouse    
14. Boosting with Tritium    
15. The George Device    
16. The Atomic Cannon    
17. Castle Bravo    
18. Operation Wigwam    
19. Cherokee Deliverable H-Bomb    
20. The Hood Device    
See all 26 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews
Fernando Gimenez, Filmtracks, April 28, 2003
Stromberg's score is a beauty. Very dark and reminiscent of Herrmann. A gem of a score everyone should own.

Album Description
Twenty Six cuts of music representing almost an hour of full orchestration was composed for "Trinity and Beyond (the Atomic Bomb Movie)." Composed and conducted by William Stromberg and performed by the Moscow Symphony Orchestra.

This great CD contains the only full orchestral music influenced by the Atomic Bomb.

Trinity and Beyond Motion Picture Soundtrack CD, Music, William T. Stromberg, Moscow Symphony Orchestra
Trinity and Beyond Motion Picture Soundtrack CD
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • A Rousing Score!
  • Classical Thunder move over!!!
  • This is still in print???
  • A Stunner!
  • One to remember - lest we forget
 Trinity and Beyond Motion Picture Soundtrack CD

Manufacturer: VCE
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00018YGUQ
Release Date: 1997-08-05

Tracks:

  1. Monument Site / 100 Tons of TNT
  2. Newsreel
  3. Fat Man and Little Boy
  4. Hiroshima / Nagasaki Requiem
  5. Operation Crossroads
  6. Armada Annihilation
  7. Deus Vult
  8. Nautical Graveyard
  9. Operation Sandstone
  10. Improved Stockpile Bomb
  11. Russia Gets the Bomb
  12. Operation Ranger-Able
  13. Operation Greenhouse
  14. Boosting with Tritium
  15. The George Device
  16. The Atomic Cannon
  17. Castle Bravo
  18. Operation Wigwam
  19. Cherokee Deliverable H-Bomb
  20. The Hood Device
  21. Operation Hardtack / Teak and Orange
  22. Russian Monster Bomb
  23. Operation Dominic
  24. Christmas Island Tests
  25. Thor Missiles
  26. China Gets the Bomb

Album Description

Twenty Six cuts of music representing almost an hour of full orchestration was composed for "Trinity and Beyond (the Atomic Bomb Movie)." Composed and conducted by William Stromberg and performed by the Moscow Symphony Orchestra.

This great CD contains the only full orchestral music influenced by the Atomic Bomb.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars A Rousing Score!.......2007-04-06

I watched this movie the other night on HDTV.

The visuals were stunning and the score was magnificant.

It reminded me of the old Victory at Sea series (NBC 1952-53) which featured music composed by Richard Rogers and performed by the RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra.

I was hoping the Trinity soundtrack was available on CD, and, fortunately, it is...

5 out of 5 stars Classical Thunder move over!!!.......2007-02-07

I am by no means a classical music expert, but this music tells as much of the story of the evolution of the atomic bomb as the movie does. Whoever teamed up William Stromberg and the makers of this movie hit it out of the park. I highly recommend the movie too, it's not preachy and covers the history like a true documentary with very intense footage. Narrated by my hero, William Shatner. I was fortunate enough to see it in HD and WOW! The music only makes it better, Classical Thunder move over!!!

5 out of 5 stars This is still in print???.......2006-04-01

I'd have never guessed.

I first saw "Trinity and Beyond" on TLC back in 1997 (between sixth and seventh grade.) I fell in love with it immediately, thanks in no small part to William Stromberg's moving, passionate score. But more on that later:

::THE MOVIE::
During that particular period in my life, I was very much intrigued by atomic and hydrogen bombs, but this film pushed my intrest into an obsession. I brought it to school and treated my friends to a screening years before the chemistry teacher would make it an annual event. I researched on these weapons and nuclear physics and was quickly becoming an expert on the subject. (I would stop friends in the hallway and drop factoids one moment and quiz them the next, and if anybody genuinely wanted to know, I'd talk their ears off until they gave up in the face of my feriority.) I actually wanted to build one of those Goddamned devices; my parents were called when someone went in my backpack and found instructions, as well as eavesdropping on my search for lithium-6 distributors.

If you think about it, atomic and hydrogen bombs can be seen as the ultimate form of masturbation that man has yet devised. Period. I don't think I have to emphasise my point any further (Stanley Kubrick has already done that, handily) but suffice it to say that it was one of my age group's favorite pastimes. I was all too awed by the raw cosmic power and brutality of these weapons, almost to the point of wanting to participate in these most sophomoric experiments in mass destruction. I have since matured in my views, and the movie has a bit as well (the DVD has some extra footage and public service films that add more of a feeling of tragedy and or pathos to a picture that mostly consists of watching things go "BOOM" for two hours. Can you blame me?)

::THE SCORE::
What can I say? "TandB" has one of the most beautiful and powerful scores I've ever heard from a movie, let alone a documentary. I had to order mine directly from VCE, and it took literally months for it to arrive, but damn if that wasn't one of the best days of my life. After hastily breaching the shrinkwrap and fondling the jewel case with all five senses to make myself sure of its existence, I popped in the CD, slipped on my headphones, and set sail for the heart of the Dark Sun--- and my cockamamie Discman couldn't get past the TOC, so I threatened to smack it with a hammer (while I actually turned off the shock protection) and it finally capitulated and played my shiny new disc.

I was surprised and disconcerted by the inclusion of leftover parts of the score (the tracks "Russia Gets the Bomb" and the original version of "Operation Ranger-Able"-- which in the film was the latter half of "Operation Hardtack, Teak, and Orange.") Those tracks eventually grew on me, and I both admire their strength and recognize why the director might have left them out of the film--- they call a bit too much attention to themselves. A welcome surprise was the full version of the track "Thor Missiles." This, I read, is Peter Kuran's favorite cue, and it's one of the more somber cues on the album, but be forewarned... it'll make you turn up the volume before it finally blows your speakers. I especially enjoy the last three cues, "Thor Missiles" included, "Christmas Island Tests," possibly the most beautiful track on the album, but way too short, and "China Gets The Bomb," the finale and recapitulation of the sinister, bombastic "Hiroshima/Nagasaki Requiem" Theme (which you may have heard in the trailers for X2.) 'Tis a great album, this. I've never heard of William Stromberg or John Morgan, or Lennie Moore or Edgardo Simone before TandB, and I wonder why, because these guys and the titanic MSO could go toe-to-toe with anyone in Hollywood. I'm baffled.

4 out of 5 stars A Stunner! .......2005-12-17

This is a concert masquerading as a film score. And what a concert! I have never seen the 1996 documentary film TRINITY AND BEYOND (and have no intention of ever doing so), but I'll wager this score boosted the appeal (or palatability) of the film many, many fold. The CD contains edge-to-edge dazzling, dynamic, and dramatic (and, possibly, dangerous!) aural delights, track after track. It presents combinations of original compositions with a distinct overarching flavor from some of the unparalleled music composed for films during the 30's, 40's, and early 50's. The latter is far from surprising. William Stromberg is the composer and conductor who is also credited along with John Morgan as being part of the team who orchestrated the score. Messrs. Stromberg and Morgan are the foremost classic-film restoration, reconstruction, and arrangement magicians of our time. They are the masters. Moreover, Mr. Stromberg is hands down the finest conductor of classic-film scores, and one of the top three or four film-music conductors on the planet. (All of this is probably an underestimate!) There is no CD-music booklet--a MAJOR disappointment. Instead you'll find a glossy cross-marketing insert that primarily hypes this and other documentaries made by the same director, the director himself, and the director's company. Reads like part of a press kit (which it probably was). This is the first of two related CDs. The other is ATOMIC JOURNEYS / NUKES IN SPACE, VCECD 02, 2004. Both highly recommended!

William Flanigan, Ph.D.

5 out of 5 stars One to remember - lest we forget.......2005-09-23

I must admit, I've listened to a lot of music and a lot of soundtracks but few have come close to matching the the specticle displayed on the screen so perfectly. Stromberg's score created a very powerfull sense of menace and doom. It really brought out a sense of poignancy and the music coupled with the terrible images of atomic bombs and people dieing in the fallout of Hiroshima had me almost in tears. Films and music like this don't get enough recognition so this it one review the score thouroughly deserves!

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