Anyone out there very familiar with Gone with the Wind soundtrack

[raccoon]

And classical music?

Reason is, there’s a classical work that sounds real similar to Scarlett and Ashley’s theme. Wish I could link to something but I tried before and couldn’t find it.
I’ve hear the classical work on NPR.

[El Supremo]

1. I don't know but it is similar to Tristan und Isolde

Hollywood composers were famous for stealing themes from the classics. Bernard Herrmann copied all sorts from Wagner.

[regnaD kciN]

3. Most early soundtrack composers were European emigrants...

...who had been classical composers before coming here, and borrowed liberally from the tradition in which they'd been trained. Dimitri Tiomkin (nowadays, most famous for "High Noon" ), upon winning the Academy Award in 1954 for "The High and the Mighty," delivered one of the most famous acceptance speeches in movie history (reproduced here in its entirety in his characteristically-broken English):

"Lady and gentlemen, because I working in this town for twenty-five years, I like to make some kind of appreciation to very important factor what make me successful to lots of my colleagues in this town. I’d like to thank Johannes Brahms, Johann Strauss, Richard Strauss, Beethoven, Mozart, George Gershwin, Jerome Kern, Wagner, Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov. Thank you."

[teenagebambam]

2. Sounds a little like

the 4th movement of Tchaikovsky's Pathetique Symphony

[keithbvadu2]

4. How many classical scores were we introduced to by Bugs Bunny?

How many classical scores were we introduced to by Bugs Bunny?

[3Hotdogs]

6. Peer Gynt in Warner Bros. cartoon

I don't recall which cartoon

[fierywoman]

5. Yeah the GWTW has the T&I leitmotif interval. Once you know it you hear it all over the place.

As for Bugs Bunny -- bless his soul for what he did for classical music!

[raccoon]

7. Thanks for your input. Remember Elmer Fudd singing,

“Where is that confounded wabbit ?”

Bugs responded: “What would you want wid a wabbit?
Can’t you see that I’m much sweeter? I’m your little senorita.”


Yeah those cartoon did introduce lots of people to some classical music.