"There are countless horrible things happening all over the world and horrible people prospering, but we must never allow them to disturb our equanimity or deflect us from our sacred duty to sabotage and annoy them whenever possible." -Auberon Waugh
The melody at 2:24 is something I've heard off and on my whole life (mostly in cartoons), but I don't recollect ever knowing that it came from this piece.
In my youth I was too busy with symphonies and looked down on 'light classical' like this. But lately I've been hearing these tunes on the radio and figuring out where they're from, like you.
BTW, over here the local BBC clone (called ABC) began at 6am last week with a formal voice announcing the Queen's death and days of somber music 'for remembrance and reflection... classical music to reflect and remember Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and her legacy.' https://www.abc.net.au/classic
We are really in mourning here officially. It's historic. The royal head of state has no influence over policy, so instead is a kind of mystical ideal. We older folks were raised singing God Save the Queen, which may help explain the mood.
The theme music to the television program Alfred Hitchcock Presentswas always bound up in my mind exclusively with that tv series, and after many years I finally stumbled across the information that it's Charles Gounod's "Funeral March of a Marionette".
In my youth I was too busy with symphonies and looked down on 'light classical' like this. But lately I've been hearing these tunes on the radio and figuring out where they're from, like you.
ReplyDeleteBTW, over here the local BBC clone (called ABC) began at 6am last week with a formal voice announcing the Queen's death and days of somber music 'for remembrance and reflection... classical music to reflect and remember Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and her legacy.'
https://www.abc.net.au/classic
We are really in mourning here officially. It's historic. The royal head of state has no influence over policy, so instead is a kind of mystical ideal. We older folks were raised singing God Save the Queen, which may help explain the mood.
The theme music to the television program Alfred Hitchcock Presentswas always bound up in my mind exclusively with that tv series, and after many years I finally stumbled across the information that it's Charles Gounod's "Funeral March of a Marionette".
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