Don Caron: Discography

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This CD contains the original score for the 1999 MGM release, The Basket. A full orchestra and choir score performed by The Hungarian Symphony, and the Spokane Chorale with soloists Jonathan Westfield, Ann Fennessy, and Jim Swoboda.




The film, directed by Rich Cowan, is an elaborate tapestry of plot threads set in the farming community of Waterville, Washington, at the height of World War II. 13-year-old Helmut Brink (Robert Karl Burke), and his elder sister Brigitta (Amber Willenborg) are German immigrants, taken from an internment camp to live with the kindly Pastor Simms (Tony Lincoln). Their arrival generates a great deal of anti-German feeling in the town, not least in land-owner Nicholas Emery (Jock MacDonald), whose eldest son Ben has returned from active duty in Europe minus his right leg. The Brink's only friend seems to be the town's new schoolteacher Martin Conlon (Peter Coyote), who brings with him from Boston a vinyl copy of "Der Korb", a German-language opera allegorising the nature of war, which he plays to his charges as a kind of morality play. As well as the opera, Conlon also brings with him a new sport - basketball - which brings the town's children closer together, and teaches them the value of teamwork. However, as the story of the opera becomes the talk of the town, and the popularity of the new game spreads, the spectre of bigotry raises its ugly head, threatening the lives of the Brink children, and the community as a whole.

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TRACK LIST
1. The Basket (3:12)
2. Pastor Simms' Trip (1:51)
3. On the Playground (1:20)
4. The Stranger (1:43)
5. Laundry Toss (1:36)
6. The Pendant (2:17)
7. Two Stones (1:31)
8. Thousand Tiny Pieces (1:19)
9. Quietest Dreams (1:46)
10. The Hanging (1:26)
11. Stealing the Ball (2:27)
12. Stealing the Basket (1:12)
13. The Gift (1:26)
14. Pledge of Allegiance (1:26)
15. Duchess' Lament (3:23)
16. Fire (3:41)
17. Town Meeting (3:01)
18. Preparations (1:13)
19. Killing the Ball (0:49)
20. The Barbarians (2:48)
21. Bessie's Dream (1:08
22. Charlie Cohn (2:43)
23. To Cause the Death (2:15)
24. The Game Part I (3:59)
25. Send Us Back (2:14)
26. The Game Part II (4:28)
27. Brigitta's Dance (1:30)
28. Together We Shall Fly