The Cider House Rules - Rachel Portman (Main Title)

“How we love to love things for other people; how we love to have other people love things through our eyes.”

WARRIORS OF DESTINY: Track One

Song: Main Title
Artist: Rachel Portman
Album: The Cider House Rules (Original Score)
Quote: John Irving/The Cider House Rules

Welcome to WARRIORS OF DESTINY! This is one of the oldest Mixes on the Channel, made way back in 2003. The only other Mix that pre-dates it is STRIDER, which I'll be upgrading in the (hopefully) near future. Back in those days I only made Mixes on CDs for myself, usually as a way to help work through whatever it was I had going on in my life at the time. Because I had no inkling that I would ever share this Mix with a wider audience, I changed many of the song titles to reflect how the music made me think and feel at the time. Of course I don't do this anymore, but this particular Mix had a LOT of title changes. I'll go through what they were in the descriptions just to give a little insight into what was going on in my head when I made it.

So what is it all about? Oh, I don't know. Well actually I do...but I'm more interested in what YOU think it's all about. We'll explore that as we go through the music. This first song, the opening credits for The Cider House Rules, is a beautiful composition by Rachel Portman that sets the tone for the rest of the Mix. I originally had changed the name of the song to "Follow Your Heart" which seemed to me at the time to be more fitting than "Main Title". Rachel Portman is a fantastic composer known for her subtle and moving scores, my personal favorite being the soundtrack to The Joy Luck Club. There will be another track from The Cider House Rules later on in the Mix so we'll talk more about her then.

Ok then, I hope you'll follow along as I put this old Mix up again. It's a Hybrid Mix, meaning it blends movie scores with actual lyrical songs. There's some great stuff on here from Sting and Cory Hart and other older artists like that so I hope you'll stay tuned! Later!