The work as a whole is a piece of gorgeous Americana, a wonderfully stirring and noble score. Quiz Show and Romeo is Bleeding . The highlights of the album, though, come right at the end - the final two pieces are among the very best heard in a 2000 film. Men of Honour is a stirring score that never goes even vaguely overblown or saccharine - a rare achievement. It is to be highly recommended - Isham's roots as a jazz trumpeter may for some reason have clouded some people's feelings about his abilities as a composer, but he knows how to write for an orchestra far better than most of his peers, and despite a few misfires along the way, has developed a catalogue of scores filled with very high quality.
Men of Honour is another notch on the bed post.