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« on: 12:57:37, 14-05-2008 » |
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Elsewhere a poster reminds us that Vaughan Williams' Sea Songs March was the signature tune of the Billy Bunter stories on BBC TV in the 50s and early 60s.
What other pieces do people remember mainly for their use on TV or radio?
I still think of Grieg's Symphonic Dance no 2 as the Railway Children tune, after its use in the TV serialisations of the E Nesbit novel in 1957 and 1968.
And of course the Intermezzo from the Karelia Suite by Sibelius is the This Week music.
Others?
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« Reply #1 on: 14:56:31, 14-05-2008 » |
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I remember loving the theme from the Book Tower on ITV, although I wasn't much of an ITV bird at the time, so when I found out years later that it was from Rach's Variations on a theme of Paganini, I snapped it up.
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Click me -> About meor me -> my handmade storeNo, I'm not a complete idiot. I'm only a halfwit. In fact I'm actually a catfish. |
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« Reply #2 on: 15:14:26, 14-05-2008 » |
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"I was, for several months, mutely in love with a coloratura soprano, who seemed to me to have wafted straight from Paradise to the stage of the Odessa Opera-House"
- Leon Trotsky, "My Life"
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« Reply #3 on: 16:47:37, 14-05-2008 » |
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VW 6th Symphony: the "big tune" from the first movement in a long-running Second World War saga called something like "A Family at War", probably in the 1960s or 70s.
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Antheil
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« Reply #4 on: 16:59:34, 14-05-2008 » |
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VW 6th Symphony: the "big tune" from the first movement in a long-running Second World War saga called something like "A Family at War", probably in the 1960s or 70s.
I have a boxed set of RVW RLO conducted by Vernon Handley, do not often play it, putting on the 6th now. Oh my goodness, there is something of Dukas' the Sorcerer's Apprentice about it!! |
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Reality, sa molesworth 2, is so sordid it makes me shudder
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Descombes
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« Reply #5 on: 17:13:44, 14-05-2008 » |
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Wait a while longer. Towards the end of the movement harp chords will introduce a big, romantic melody on the strings! I seem to remember that slightly different sections were used for the beginning and end of the programme. At the end, just when everything seems conventionally tonal, some disturbing discords add a jarring element. All very suitable for a war-time drama!
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Don Basilio
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« Reply #6 on: 17:15:06, 14-05-2008 » |
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The Archers theme - Barwick Green, recorded for Hyperion by the indefatigable Ronald Corp in his English Light Music series.
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To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven.
A time to weep, and a time to laugh: a time to mourn, and a time to dance
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« Reply #7 on: 17:31:05, 14-05-2008 » |
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A couple from Eric Coates:
Sleepy Lagoon - Desert Island Discs
Whitehall March - Down Your Way - I think this was Coates!
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« Reply #8 on: 17:37:39, 14-05-2008 » |
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The Forsyth Saga theme was Eric Coates, but I believe it may have been specifically composed.
"And I will be with again next week. Until then, I wish you well, and now a very good night to you all." And the BBC Light Orchestra or similar would swoop into the (London)Derry Air to mark the end of another Your Hundred Best Tunes, with dear old Alan Keith.
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To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven.
A time to weep, and a time to laugh: a time to mourn, and a time to dance
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Antheil
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« Reply #9 on: 17:53:49, 14-05-2008 » |
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Sorry, bad taste. I have erased it
Shame, it was great fun!!
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Reality, sa molesworth 2, is so sordid it makes me shudder
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perfect wagnerite
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« Reply #10 on: 19:52:26, 14-05-2008 » |
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Sibelius At the Castle Gate, from The Sky at Night
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At every one of these [classical] concerts in England you will find rows of weary people who are there, not because they really like classical music, but because they think they ought to like it. (Shaw, Don Juan in Hell)
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« Reply #11 on: 19:53:40, 14-05-2008 » |
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Sibelius At the Castle Gate, from The Sky at Night
PW, which work is that from? I had no idea it was Sibelius! |
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Green. Always green.
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perfect wagnerite
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« Reply #12 on: 19:59:05, 14-05-2008 » |
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Sibelius At the Castle Gate, from The Sky at Night
PW, which work is that from? I had no idea it was Sibelius! It's from the incidental music to Pelleas et Melisande. |
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At every one of these [classical] concerts in England you will find rows of weary people who are there, not because they really like classical music, but because they think they ought to like it. (Shaw, Don Juan in Hell)
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John W
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« Reply #13 on: 20:44:19, 14-05-2008 » |
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I simply adore the theme from the film Schindler's List. It's by John Williams and it's called, er, Theme from Schindler's List  |
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Descombes
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« Reply #14 on: 21:33:19, 14-05-2008 » |
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I simply adore the theme from the film Schindler's List. It's by John Williams and it's called, er, Theme from Schindler's List I had originally thought that the question was restricted to existing music which was later used for TV/film/radio purposes. However, if specially composed music is allowed, Geoffrey Burgon's music for "Brideshead Revisited" was a classic. |
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