Totally amazing! I had the great fortune in live in California for a few years and now back in the UK, I am aware how different the Spirit of Place is back there to here. This soundtrack accomplishes something that no other  music or other medium has done for me, touching my soul with this Spirit  that I loved so much and want to touch every now and then, to remind myself  it was real. The spectral (yet very physical) player asks as he disappears  into the Cornfield: 'Is this heaven, or what?' Yes this movie says and  don't forget it! The music is generally quiet with no razamatazz, in fact,  the whole CD seems a meditation on the quietude of the warm, balmy night.  This tone picture is of the heart of America where the Corn grows and the  Spirit of America in this fantasy, fresh, clean and pure bubbles from its  original source. The repeated piano motiv, gentle, leaving almost a  question mark in the silence is answered by the stillness and the heat of  the night. The use of pan pipes as the baseball spirits appear and  disappear in the corn provide an eerie almost Native American taste, almost  whispering to me that this special Spirit, the magic of transformation, if  we could see it, could from this source; thereby answering my concern of  its lack back home here. However, like this music in totality it is subtle  and under played, it is impressionistic, leaving you the benefit of making  your own inferences from its suggestion for it would tell others something  totally different. The orchestration and arrangement throughout is spare,  relying very much on a solo piano although the depiction of the certain  scenes like the Old Ball Players have been given a period flavor with jazzy  and blues overtones. However, the underlying feeling is of magic, of  transformation, of transcendence that goes to the heart of the American  Dream. With our hero in the movie we don't understand what is going on but  we are aware that we are part of something much larger than ourselves and  we just have to sit back and enjoy it, going along for the ride. It depicts  Life as not threatening, but as warm and kind as Doc Moonlight's Memories  of his lifetime of care in his Minnesotan Community show. The message comes  down to something like: You can make it, you will achieve it, this is what  can be done if you just believe in what you do and do what you believe in.  This is what the movie and the music tells me and reminds me of ten years  ago when I stood under those same skies, communing with the Spirit and  listened to the quiet of the warm night and believed....