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A very deep trawl through odd corners of the memory brings up a Sunday tea-time series called The Flaxton Boys, whose theme tune was taken from Prokofiev's Classical Symphony.
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« Reply #91 on: 15:44:58, 20-05-2008 » |
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A few more have reappeared from the depths: Monitor in its Huw Wheldon days used a bit from Dag Wiren's Serenade. In a later incarnation it used the opening of Glinka's Ruslan and Ludmila overture. And Face to Face had that bit from Berlioz Les Francs Juges overture. I'm sure something somewhere used a chunk from Grieg's Holberg Suite but I'm blowed if I can remember what it was. [Later: Oooooh dear. Look what I've found nostalgia wallowers: http://www.whirligig-tv.co.uk/radio/siteindex/index.htm Bang goes the rest of the afternoon.] |
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« Reply #92 on: 16:04:11, 20-05-2008 » |
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Oooo, I've just remembered when I first heard 'March to the Scaffold' Berlioz. It was used, I think, for a Beeb production of The Three Musketeers shown early Sunday evening in the (maybe) late 60s/early70s?). Maybe  I'm doubting myself as I type this. |
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« Reply #93 on: 16:08:08, 20-05-2008 » |
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And have we had that maudlin arrangement of the Irish Tune from County Derry (a.k.a. Oh Danny Boy) which introduced Your Hundred Best Tunes? It was almost enough to put me off Grainger for life until I discovered that it's all but an aberration, and that most of his output is just wonderfully whacky and life-affirming.
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« Reply #94 on: 16:12:24, 20-05-2008 » |
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I mentioned Your 100 Best Toons earlier.
Thinking of Berlioz, there was a Sunday teatime classic serial which used the exciting bit from the overture to Le Corsair. You know, Doo de-doo, de doo diddy doo doo.
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« Reply #95 on: 16:14:40, 20-05-2008 » |
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Oooo, I've just remembered when I first heard 'March to the Scaffold' Berlioz. It was used, I think, for a Beeb production of The Three Musketeers shown early Sunday evening in the (maybe) late 60s/early70s?). Maybe I'm doubting myself as I type this. Me too, Mort. Mid 1960s, I reckon. Brian Blessed as Brian Blessed Porthos and Richard Pasco as an evil Cardinal Richelieu. |
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« Reply #97 on: 16:29:51, 20-05-2008 » |
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There was a programme in the early 70's, at a guess, called Sutherland's Law, in which Iain Cuthbertson played a procurator fiscal, whose theme was MacCunn's Land of the Mountain and the Flood (although what I really remember was that the opening titles contained a shot of the A82 near Glencoe, which we used to drive along on the way to see the Northern branch of the family)
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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 #98 on: 16:32:24, 20-05-2008 » |
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Damn your eyes, George Garnett. Damn them to hell!   |
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« Reply #99 on: 17:16:56, 20-05-2008 » |
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Brian Blessed as Brian Blessed WHAAAAAAT?!!???! |
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« Reply #100 on: 17:47:09, 20-05-2008 » |
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WHAAAAAAT?!!???!
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« Reply #101 on: 17:48:34, 20-05-2008 » |
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My money is on foo-cheek, with the emphasis on the foo.
Tommo
Quite right, but to be even more pedantic, it is a short 'oo' sound, just as in 'good'. |
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« Reply #102 on: 17:50:02, 20-05-2008 » |
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My money is on foo-cheek, with the emphasis on the foo.
Tommo
Quite right, but to be even more pedantic, it is a short 'oo' sound, just as in 'good'. Nothing wrong with a bit of pedantry, I'm quite partial to it myself. Thanks! |
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« Reply #103 on: 18:05:23, 20-05-2008 » |
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And the Chopin fest reminds me, has anyone mentioned Just A Minute and the Minute Waltz?
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« Reply #104 on: 18:09:23, 20-05-2008 » |
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Damn your eyes, George Garnett. Damn them to hell! Unfortunately the BBC shut down their Cult TV Website a couple of years ago and are not updating it. However, it is still there and the Clangers are one of my favourites. Only short clips but I think the Election one is quite pertinent at the moment. Lots more to explore on the site as well. Channel 4 had the whole series on some time ago. http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/classic/clangers/ |
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Reality, sa molesworth 2, is so sordid it makes me shudder
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