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If someone did there anything, most likely Chris Palmer


There are three versions of the 'Caesar Now Be Still' march. Where did the Silva/Varese concert version come from? Did Rozsa feel the need to revise it yet again, or was this (or the Herrmann) a Palmer adaptation?

'Which spawns another good question: if film scores are to be accepted as concert suite material for performance, is it actually healthy for composers to keep revising the pieces again and again? True, this happens to some extent in concert pieces too, but is the sacrosanct 'integrity' of a piece diluted should a composer insist on continually reworking?

There are three 'Caesar' finales, about half a dozen Ben-Hur finales, three 'Julius Caesar' Overtures (admittedly two by Palmer), at least four Parades of the Charioteers, four Spellbound Concertos etc.. It might add to the feel in conductors' minds surely that nothing is definitive and that these things are just mere extensions of the original scores. Should there be definitive versions of each?