Passion of the Christ score

The score for the The Passion of the Christ, composed by John Debney, will apparently be available from February 24. There are some excerpts available at one of the Passion of the Christ fan sites:

Passion of the Christ soundtrack excerpts

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So whatever happened to the rumours that Lisa Gerrard was to score the film (Blogged on December 11 2003)? After this was apparently confirmed, it was then announced that John Debney was scoring the film and that Gerrard would be "co-scoring". But now Lisa Gerrard's name seems to have been removed altogether and the news item has been dropped from her web site. So what is the story here? Some interesting light is shed in the forum of Lisa Gerrard's site, in which Lisa's husband Jacek is a participant. He shows some real frustration with this project and states that "We have all worked VERY hard on the Passion", so much so that other projects have had to be sacrificed. He goes on, "I have VERY deep feeling about all this and is better I say nothing . . . . Not to mention that Patrick [co-writer Patrick Cassidy, MG] missed Christmas completely and his mother came to be with him from Eire . . . . we have worked TOOOOOO hard on this project!" He adds that "I just do not think any of LGs and PCs work will be in the final version of the film . . . ." Elsewhere in the forum, Jacek describes the film as a "masterpiece" and Mel Gibson as a "very good person" but the Debney score only as "good but not exceptional". He hints that the decision to go with Debney was not solely Gibson's choice and also that he "ran out of time to include the work that LG did".