Did you know that All by Myself by Eric Carmen & Cline Dion was based on Rachmaninov's

[elleng]

Piano Concerto No.2? Grab the opportunity to watch this splendid performance with Yuja Wang, Lorenzo Viotti and Münchner Philharmoniker! 🎹✨ https://cutt.ly/mGVlbAk

!!!

[hlthe2b]

1. Yup... A wonderful interweaving of a beautiful classical piece.

[elleng]

2. Great that you knew it!

How's THIS:

[hlthe2b]

3. Never heard that Brubeck was inspired by Mozart or any classical, but I love his music.

Had I had a piano that would light up like that when practicing classical pieces, though, I'd likely have stuck with it! LOL

[elleng]

4. Me too!

My brother didn't NEED lights! (and he's still got the piano Dad bought for us 70? years ago!!!)

[elias7]

5. His song, "Never gonna fall in love again" - also borrowed from Rachmaninov

I love Sting and Mary Blige doing “whenever I say your name” which was taken from one of Bach’s harpsichord pieces

[elleng]

6. Nice!

[rsdsharp]

7. Older, but there is this:

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[elleng]

8. Thanks!

[usonian]

9. More popular songs based on classical themes (no spoilers!)

Here are two sites with lots of them.

Classical Music In Popular Songs: You Know More Classical Music Than You Think
https://www.vpr.org/programs/2016-02-01/classical-music-in-popular-songs-you-know-more-classical-music-than-you-think

17 pop songs you didn’t know were directly inspired by classical music
https://www.classicfm.com/discover-music/pop-songs-sample-based-on-classical-music/


Oh my! Why didn't I think of that one?

So, here's a treat, and one obscure one.
Treat: Bizet's music exactly, in a movie set in the 20th century (by Otto Preminger) and starring Harry Belafonte and Dorothy Dandridge in "Carmen Jones". Love the names. Escamillo the bull fighter is Husky Miller, the prize figher. So are the others.

Wikipedia says:

The majority of the actors performing the songs in the film Carmen Jones were dubbed. Even singer Harry Belafonte was dubbed (by LeVern Hutcherson), and Dorothy Dandridge was dubbed by Marilyn Horne (long before Horne became a well-known opera singer).

And this one is obscure.
The aria "Quello Che Tacete" in Puccini's La Fanciulla Del West (I love it, especially "Whiskey per tutti!" )
has to be the predecessor to "Music of the Night". Check it out. I couldn't find a performance off the top.


ENJOY!!

[elleng]

10. THANKS!

and there's

[usonian]

12. Love that. Borodin hit it out of the park!

I limited my "search" to popular music (except for Carmen Jones) because classical music in movies is endless. I grew up listening to Boston Pops concerts with Arthur Fiedler, and the last third of each concert was all "popular" and movie music.

Leonard Bernstein was composing crossover classical/popular/Broadway music after Gershwin.

BTW. Eddie Duchin's theme song, from Chopin.

Great thread. Brings back memories.

[elleng]

13. REALLY, Borodin DID,

so did Vincent Minelli!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kismet_(1955_film)

Played in it, in high school.

[eppur_se_muova]

14. Borodin won a posthumous Tony Award for that, in 1954.

He's the only organic chemist to do so, AFAIK.

[elleng]

15. Great!

Lots of composers, and POETS, had other jobs.

[hlthe2b]

11. Some of those are quite a stretch--they'd surely win the hypothetical copyright suit if that could

have been a "thing."

The Pachelbel Canon in D-- you want to hear music directly inspired by that? Listen to the soundtrack from "Somewhere in Time," not Maroon 5.

And John Denver's "Annie's Song?" Yes, there is a bit that might have been inspired, but it is a pretty minimal bit from Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5. Really minimal, but I do hear it in the second movement with the horns.

I'll have to listen to some of the others.

Eric Carmen acknowledges incorporating. I really can't imagine John Denver knowingly did. The others? Possibly.