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Quartet Records  announces:  THE TWELVE CHAIRS limited edition of 500 copies Quartet Records, in collaboration with JAY Productions, presents the premiere CD release of John Morris’ score for his second collaboration with Mel Brooks, THE TWELVE CHAIRS (1970), starring Ron Moody, Frank Langella, Dom DeLuise and Brooks himself in the role of Tykon. Based on a 1928 Russian-language novel by Soviet satirists Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov, THE TWELVE CHAIRS is a bittersweet comedy about 1920s Soviet Russia, when a fallen aristocrat, a priest and a con artist search for a treasure of jewels hidden inside one of twelve dining chairs, lost during the Revolution. After their success together a few years earlier in THE PRODUCERS, the Brooks-Morris duo reunited here, allowing the composer to work on arrangements of the song composed by Brooks (“Hope For the Best”), based on a popular melody previously adapted by Brahms. Morris provides an emotional score, not without hints of parody, and frenetic passages of comedy a la russe. Morris’ masterful score was orchestrated and conducted by Stephen Sondheim’s longtime collaborator Jonathan Tunick and recorded at CTS Studios in London by John Richards. No album was released in 1970, and only four cues were included in a Warner Bros. Records compilation in 1976 in Australia, along with a selection of themes from THE PRODUCERS and BLAZING SADDLES. The score was first released on vinyl in 1983 by Varese Sarabande for the US and Canada, and TER for the rest of the world. This is its first CD release. Mastered by Chris Malone from the master provided by JAY Productions, the package includes detailed liner notes by film music writer and historian John Takis.	Dragon's Domain  announces:  TABLE FOR FIVE  limited edition Dragon’s Domain Records presents the premiere release of the unused score for TABLE FOR FIVE composed by John Morris for the 1983 drama directed by Robert Lieberman, written by David Seltzer, starring Jon Voight, Richard Crenna, Marie-Christine Barrault, Millie Perkins, Roxana Zal and Maria O’Brien. TABLE FOR FIVE follows a divorced couple at odds over the welfare of their three children. Jon Voight plays J.P. Tanner, a former professional golfer, who is estranged from his children and longs to re-enter their lives. J.P. comes up with the idea of springing a surprise Mediterranean cruise to Egypt on them, in spite of his ex-wife Kathleen’s acquiescing and contrarian instincts. On the cruise, J.P. uses the time to reacquaint himself with his children while also pursuing a romance with Marie (Barrault), a French archaeologist. The plot thickens when news reaches the boat that Kathleen has been killed in a terrible car accident back in New York, leaving J.P. in conflict over the fate of the children with Mitchell (Crenna), Kathleen’s surviving husband. John Morris was the original composer brought on to compose the music for TABLE FOR FIVE. For reasons not publicly known, the majority of his music went unused in the final cut of the film and the filmmakers brought in composer Miles Goodman to provide additional music. Morris’ score is lush and full of kaleidoscopic orchestral color, in contrast with Goodman’s music for the film. Available at Buysoundtrax and more retailers soon.	Latest CD releases                                                                           Latest project Kansas to Kandahar (2006)
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