surprising composer

The score for Peter Brook's *Lord of the Flies* is by ... Raymond

Is this a film? play?

Henry Maurer, Cherry Hill, NJ, USA

An immensely celebrated movie from 1963

I wonder how it affected Leppard. I guess he must have been a bright young thing at the time; perhaps with some theatre scores for student productions under his belt.

If the scoring was done the same way as it is in Hollywood, he was presented with the finally-edited film and had to put music to it. The main theme is a Kyrie sung by the Choir Boys (who quickly degenerate into the Hunters) accompanied by one or two trumpets that might have come from a Medieval mystery play (but just as well might be pastiche), but I don't recall that they are ever seen in close-enough-up that you can tell what music they're singing, so it could easily have been laid in afterward. The most common texture is two flutes; there is also a timpani solo treatment of the tune, and a few passages more fully scored. None of it has a Baroque feeling at all, which is what I most associate Leppard with.