What is the music in background of Ads??

[Doogie]

Hey what is that music in the background of RandF's ploitical ads?? It sounds like the music from Platoon...I am not sure though

CYA!!!!!!! "When the wind no longer calls to you, perhaps it is time to remember your name"-Elegos A'Kla
"get your balls out!!!"

[Chet]

Samuel Barber's "Adagio for Strings". Its a very beautiful piece. He's dead now (like a lot of great composers). Unfortunately, most people only know him from this piece of music.

"But life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth" - Schopenhauer

This message was edited by Chet on 11-6-01 @ 7:19 PM

[Doogie]

Was it ever used in a movie?? Would the IMDB have that type of listing??

CYA!!!!!!! "When the wind no longer calls to you, perhaps it is time to remember your name"-Elegos A'Kla
"get your balls out!!!"

[Chet]

Yeah, it was used in Platoon, the helicopter scene, the guy left behind.

"But life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth" - Schopenhauer

[IkeaBoy]

It was also in The Elephant Man but it most well known as the theme of Platoon

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[TooCute]

It's funny, because mostly everything that Barber wrote sounds like "movie music". I'm surprised that not more of it has been used in movies/tv shows, at least that I've noticed.

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[Chet]

Yeah, he was prolific, but not as much as lets say, John Williams, to have a lot of material for movies. He was a longtime companion/lover with another composer Gian Carlo Menotti (that means he was a pole smoker). If I had my pick of movie composers, it would have to be between Eric Wolfgang Korngold and Bernard Herrmann, they really knew how to write for film, and they helped make the movies so much more dramatic. Look at any Hitchcock Movie and take away the music that Herrmann wrote.

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This message was edited by Chet on 11-6-01 @ 8:51 PM