"Eroica" conducted by Claudio Cabelli
A. Brain
or for that matter this conductor? I've never heard it, only
seen it once or twice, very briefly.
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Gregorius
Isn't that the recording of the Eroica on Norman Bates's phonograph in
PSYCHO? I'd always assumed it was pseudonymous (particularly since it
was an LP on what looked like a windup phonograph), but it'd be fun to
know if it wasn't.
A. Brain
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Isn't that the recording of the Eroica on Norman Bates's phonograph in
PSYCHO? I'd always assumed it was pseudonymous (particularly since it
was an LP on what looked like a windup phonograph), but it'd be fun to
know if it wasn't.
Bingo. It was a trick question, after I caught
most of the movie on TCM tonight.
Gregorius
> "Gregorius" <jns-guch...@comcast.net> wrote in message
LOL, I'd caught the last 20 minutes of PSYCHO while waiting for
SCREAMING MIMI to come on. My cinematic tastes are deplorably broad
(not a reference to Anita Ekberg) :)
William Sommerwerck
> for SCREAMING MIMI to come on. My cinematic tastes are
> deplorably broad (not a reference to Anita Ekberg) :)
Do you consider Anita Ekberg a deplorable broad?
A. Brain
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Somehow my TIVO erased "Mimi" before I got around
to watching.
In "A Face in the Crowd", Andy Griffith's new and
decidedly nubile bride (don't know who played her)
twirls a baton on stage to the Scherzo of Beethoven's
7th.
This movie, about a folksy demagogue who makes it
big in advertising and almost in politics, does not quite
work as powerfully as it should, but Griffith is terrific in
it.
A. Brain
who lives with his son who has a wife and new baby
until they decide that he is just too much of a pest
and something of a public embarassment.
There's one scene where he is listening to Tchaikovsky's
6th symphony on headphones having what seems like
an endless cord until they snap off.
It's Tchaikovsky that is miscast here. No question that
even in the early '70s, a character like this would be
listening to Bruckner.
Steve de Mena
> In "Kotch" Walter Matthau plays a cranky
Cranky - that pretty much describes all his movie characters, no?
Steve
Richard Schultz
: In "A Face in the Crowd", Andy Griffith's new and
: decidedly nubile bride (don't know who played her)
: twirls a baton on stage to the Scherzo of Beethoven's 7th.
I think that my all-time favorite use of classical music as incidental music
in the movies is Woody Allen's use of Schubert's String Quartet #15 (NOT the
"Death and the Maiden" quartet) in _Crimes and Misdemeanors_. (I use the term
"incidental" music to differentiate it from the use of music in movies like
_Unfaithfully Yours_ in which the music is being played, or "played," by
one or more of the characters in the movie.)
And that's despite the extra bonus points that Kubrick got for using
music composed by Ligeti (in _2001_ and in _Eyes Wide Shut_).
There's also a trilogy of films with the collective title _Wohin und
Zurueck_ (AFAICT, only one of them is available on DVD -- from some
company in Austria) in which the generally depressing mood of the
films is perfectly reflected by the use of the slow movement of the
Schubert cello quintet (aka "music to commit suicide by").
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Department of Chemistry, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel
Opinions expressed are mine alone, and not those of Bar-Ilan University
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"To interpret music is to ignore information."
-- Callender et al., _Science_ vol. 320, p. 346 (2008)
TareeDawg
Bach enters the mind more readily somehow.
Ray (Dawg) Hall, Taree