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Fans may react badly should a remaster or remake fail to do justice to the source material.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
Needless to say, there’s a lot going on in Butler’s busy, occasionally dizzying script, though compressing the approximately 550-page source material was surely no easy task.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026
When he began work on the “Scottish Fantasy” in 1879, a year before leaving Germany for a new post directing the Liverpool Philharmonic Society, two of those folk songs would provide source material.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
Pyrobitumen is an insoluble form of organic carbon that develops when buried crude oil or kerogen -- a source material for natural gas -- is subjected to intense heating deep below the surface.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026
Pulcinella is sparklingly inventive with its source material but it is nevertheless the musical equivalent of placing the Art Deco spire of Manhattan's Chrysler Building on top of Christopher Wren's Greenwich Hospital.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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