Digital Booklet - The Borgias.pdf - Trevor Morris - Rodzina Borgiów [Soundtrack](2011) - madziorek05

Music From The

Showtime Original Series

A NOTE FROM THE COMPOSER

I met Neil Jordan at a hotel in SoHo New York City about a year ago. He was in the

US for only a short time promoting his current film, before heading back to Ireland and

Eastern Europe to start shooting THE BORGIAS . We had a tea together in the ever hip

lobby of the hotel, and chatted about his new show, and bantered about the difference

in ethos between television and film. Sometime thereafter Neil chose me to be his

composer, a moment I am grateful for.

We met again on the show’s set in Eastern Europe, they were shooting episode 3 at

the time. I brought with me a portable composing rig, basically whatever I could fit in

a shoulder bag, and set up in an office beside the editing bay. Tony Lawson, Neil’s

longtime picture editor, was next door cutting the double opening show, and so the

collaboration began.

I always find this part of the process ironic, in the dichotomy between how others

view my process and how I view my process. To me, getting started, getting the initial

ideas is the hardest part of what I do, dare I say agonizing at times. I was asked to

“pop over” to the set in Budapest for a week and just, you know … write a few things.

I have gotten used to this notion as my career progresses, but it still doesn’t change

the fact that those first cues are the hardest. Even more so with a project as stylish,

deep, dark, murky, intelligent, and interwoven as THE BORGIAS . Nonetheless, I dug in

and the collaboration with myself, Neil and Tony was underway, and really continued to the very

end of Season 1, even as I write these liner notes.

The story of this original crime family has been with Neil for a long time. He has really lived with

these characters day in and day out, and knows them all intimately. I dare say Mario Puzo doesn’t

know the Borgia Family half as well as Neil does. So it became evident that my job, musically, was

to just keep up with Neil. And is the case with factual historical material, there is music “of the

time” that needs to be seamlessly incorporated into the musical fabric as well. All part of the

musical challenge that is THE BORGIAS .

I have come to know the Borgia family quite well myself, in addition to all the other characters

and players in THE BORGIAS . Scoring the “quiet power” of Rodrigo Borgia (Pope Alexander VI)

is a very “Godfather”-like exercise in a way, one I am enjoying.

I went to Rome for the first time last summer, my last bit of time off before I started my

composing process for the show. It was a timely trip that really hit home with me, the power of

St. Peter’s and the deep history of that city. The historical significance of all that is holy, and, in

turn, the corruption that power draws and brings with it, is evident in Neil’s portrayal of this

amazing period in time. I tried to recreate that journey musically here for you on this CD, I hope

it echoes back for you to the rich tapestry of THE BORGIAS .

— Trevor Morris

SHOWTIME Presents in association with TAKE 5 PRODUCTIONS and OCTAGON FILMS JEREMY IRONS “THE BORGIAS”

FRANÇOIS ARNAUD HOLLIDAY GRAINGER JOANNE WHALLEY LOTTE VERBEEK DAVID OAKES

SEAN HARRIS SIMON McBURNEY AIDAN ALEXANDER And COLM FEORE

Costume Designer GABRIELLA PESCUCCI Music by TREVOR MORRIS

Edited by WENDY HALLAM MARTIN, C.C.E. LISA GROOTENBOER Production Designer FRANÇOIS SÉGUIN

Director of Photography PAUL SAROSSY B.S.C., C.S.C Created by NEIL JORDAN

Executive Producers NEIL JORDAN JACK RAPKE DARRYL FRANK JOHN WEBER SHEILA HOCKIN JAMES FLYNN

Music Composed by

TREVOR MORRIS

Score Produced by Trevor Morris

Executive Producer: Robert Townson

Score Recorded & Mixed at

Trevor Morris Music

Music Editor: Yuri Gorbachow

Featured Violin: Michael Levine

Electric Violin: Craig Eastman

Featured Vocalist: Laurie Ann Haus

Technical Score Producers:

Steven Richard Davis , Phil McGowan

Mastered by Patricia Sullivan Fourstar

Trevor would like to thank Neil Jordan,

James Flynn, Sheila Hockin, Bill Goddard,

John Weber and the team at Take-5,

David Nevins and all at Showtime, Csheryl Tiano,

Maria Machado and Sam Schwartz.

My beautiful family, Zoe, Josie and Jackson Morris.

Finally, my deepest thanks go out

to the musicians who played on my music,

and infused this modern score with

an ancient nuance and their musical subtleties.

Your contribution to my music is invaluable,

and never goes unnoticed. Thank you very much.

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