Which Mozart piece in Hitchcock's "Vertigo"?
G. Brown
Bradley Philip Lehman wrote:
>
> Recently I saw the rerelease of Hitchcock's film "Vertigo," and also
> bought the Bernard Herrmann soundtrack. In the scene where Stewart's
> character is in the hospital and his friend is trying to cheer him up
> with a Mozart record, the piece sounds somewhat familiar to me, but I
> can't place exactly which Mozart work it is. Anyone happen to know the
> title and K number?
>
> It's not in the soundtrack album, and I looked through "Vertigo" and
> film-database websites for about an hour yesterday, still not finding any
> leads on this. Anyone? Thanks in advance.
>
> Somewhat related question: how about the large choral work that is played
> in the Royal Albert Hall near the end of the 1934 "The Man Who Knew Too
> Much?" It sounds superficially like Walton in style.
>
> Brad Lehman, b...@umich.edu
>
> --
> Bradley Lehman ~ Harrisonburg VA, USA ~ 38.44N+78.87W
> b...@umich.edu ~ http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bpl/
you,ve piqued my curiosity on Vertigo...may have to go out and rent it..
..another Hitchcock question-in THE 39 STEPS....is the music that is
the theme for the vaudeville performer who answers ALL questions the
polka from Gaite Parisienne?
Frank Lynch
G. Brown wrote:
>
> you,ve piqued my curiosity on Vertigo...may have to go out and rent it..
> ..another Hitchcock question-in THE 39 STEPS....is the music that is
> the theme for the vaudeville performer who answers ALL questions the
> polka from Gaite Parisienne?
Have you forgotten the vaudeville performer's name?
MR MEMORY, of course!
Frank
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G. Brown
Frank Lynch wrote:
>
> G. Brown wrote:
> >
> > you,ve piqued my curiosity on Vertigo...may have to go out and rent it..
> > ..another Hitchcock question-in THE 39 STEPS....is the music that is
> > the theme for the vaudeville performer who answers ALL questions the
> > polka from Gaite Parisienne?
>
> Have you forgotten the vaudeville performer's name?
> MR MEMORY, of course!
>
> Frank
John Grabowski
G. Brown wrote:
>
> Bradley Philip Lehman wrote:
> >
> > Recently I saw the rerelease of Hitchcock's film "Vertigo," and also
> > bought the Bernard Herrmann soundtrack. In the scene where Stewart's
> > character is in the hospital and his friend is trying to cheer him up
> > with a Mozart record, the piece sounds somewhat familiar to me, but I
> > can't place exactly which Mozart work it is. Anyone happen to know the
> > title and K number?
> >
> > It's not in the soundtrack album, and I looked through "Vertigo" and
> > film-database websites for about an hour yesterday, still not finding any
> > leads on this. Anyone? Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Somewhat related question: how about the large choral work that is played
> > in the Royal Albert Hall near the end of the 1934 "The Man Who Knew Too
> > Much?" It sounds superficially like Walton in style.
> >
> > Brad Lehman, b...@umich.edu
> >
> > --
> > Bradley Lehman ~ Harrisonburg VA, USA ~ 38.44N+78.87W
> > b...@umich.edu ~ http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bpl/
> ..another Hitchcock question-in THE 39 STEPS....is the music that is
> the theme for the vaudeville performer who answers ALL questions the
> polka from Gaite Parisienne?
Don't know about 39 Steps, but the music in Vertigo is the slow movement
of the Symphony No. 34 in C, K. 338.
John
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Michael A. Abelson
Bradley Philip Lehman wrote:
>
> Recently I saw the rerelease of Hitchcock's film "Vertigo," and also
> bought the Bernard Herrmann soundtrack. In the scene where Stewart's
> character is in the hospital and his friend is trying to cheer him up
> with a Mozart record, the piece sounds somewhat familiar to me, but I
> can't place exactly which Mozart work it is. Anyone happen to know the
> title and K number?
>
> It's not in the soundtrack album, and I looked through "Vertigo" and
> film-database websites for about an hour yesterday, still not finding any
> leads on this. Anyone? Thanks in advance.
>
> Somewhat related question: how about the large choral work that is played
> in the Royal Albert Hall near the end of the 1934 "The Man Who Knew Too
> Much?" It sounds superficially like Walton in style.
>
by Arthur Benjamin (of Jamaican Rhumba fame). It was played by the LSO
conducted by Bernard Herrman.
Mike Abelson
Jeffrey Wheeler
"Michael A. Abelson", do you know where your towel is? I don't see it
here...
And arranged by Herrmann, as well.
Jeffrey Wheeler
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Radcliffe Bond
It was the 1956 remake of The Man Who Knew
Too Much where Bernard Herrmann conducted the
orchestra in Albert Hall.
Fred the Duck
The same piece was used in both versions of Hitchcock's TMWKTM...
The Stormclouds Cantata by Arthur Benjamin.......the 56 remake had the
score reworked by Herrmann with, I believe, the addition of the organ
part......friends in the UK say they remember seeing LP's of
Benjamin's workwith this piece back in the 60's.
Tom Blackburn
In article <63la0j$2g5$1...@newbabylon.rs.itd.umich.edu>,
b...@moonpatrol.rs.itd.umich.edu (Bradley Philip Lehman) wrote:
> Recently I saw the rerelease of Hitchcock's film "Vertigo," and also
> bought the Bernard Herrmann soundtrack. In the scene where Stewart's
> character is in the hospital and his friend is trying to cheer him up
> with a Mozart record, the piece sounds somewhat familiar to me, but I
> can't place exactly which Mozart work it is. Anyone happen to know the
> title and K number?
>
From memory it was the slow movement of the clarinet concerto, K622.
--
Tom
Paul Penna
In article <63tg2n$k...@lecture.its.rpi.edu>, dre...@rpi.edu (Don Drewecki)
wrote:
> The piece in Vertigo conducted by Bernard Herrmann is called "The Storm
> Clouds", and is by Arthur Benjamin. If you purchase the Milan CD
> (distributed by BMG) you can get this work, conducted by Elmer
> Bernstein, along with music from Herrmann's best-known film scores.
> It's an excellent CD that also has Herrmann talking about film music for
> roughly seven minutes.
I believe you're talking about "The Man Who Knew Too Much" rather than
"Vertigo." The former film is the one in which Herrmann appears conducting
the cymbal-crashing piece (that particular noise being a major plot event).
Paul Penna
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Don Drewecki
I am sorry: The film is "The Man Who Knew Too Much", with Doris Day and
Jimmy Stewart, that has Arthur Benjamin's Storm Clouds cantata.
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Robert Silverman
Michael A. Abelson wrote:
> Bradley Philip Lehman wrote:
> >
> .....Somewhat related question: how about the large choral work that is
> played
> > in the Royal Albert Hall near the end of the 1934 "The Man Who Knew Too
> > Much?" It sounds superficially like Walton in style.
> >
> I have never seen "Vertigo," but the choral piece in TMWKTM was written
> by Arthur Benjamin (of Jamaican Rhumba fame). It was played by the LSO
> conducted by Bernard Herrman.
>
The title is Storm Cloud Cantata. It is featured in both TMWKTM films, but
Herrmann extended it in the second.
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> Bradley Philip Lehman wrote:
> >
> > bought the Bernard Herrmann soundtrack. In the scene where Stewart's
> > character is in the hospital and his friend is trying to cheer him up
> > with a Mozart record, the piece sounds somewhat familiar to me, but I
> > can't place exactly which Mozart work it is. Anyone happen to know the
> > title and K number?
> >
> > film-database websites for about an hour yesterday, still not finding any
> > leads on this. Anyone? Thanks in advance.
> >
> > in the Royal Albert Hall near the end of the 1934 "The Man Who Knew Too
> > Much?" It sounds superficially like Walton in style.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Bradley Lehman ~ Harrisonburg VA, USA ~ 38.44N+78.87W
> > b...@umich.edu ~ http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bpl/
> you,ve piqued my curiosity on Vertigo...may have to go out and rent it..
> ..another Hitchcock question-in THE 39 STEPS....is the music that is
> the theme for the vaudeville performer who answers ALL questions the
> polka from Gaite Parisienne?
"Film Score Analysis Episode 1: Vertigo"
