From 1972.
Here’s how the opening of Richard Strauss’s Also Sprach Zarathustra sounds in its original form, as famously used to launch Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey.”
Classical cover: ‘Also Sprach Zarathustra’
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What’s that tune in ‘Outlaw King’?
We noticed the new trailer (kind of violent) for “Outlaw King” on Netflix uses a famous classical tune as underscoring.
The tune? Albinoni’s Adagio, of course, which probably wasn’t actually composed by Albinoni, but by 20th-century musicologist Remo Giazotto. Here’s how it normally sounds.
The piece has been heard in many films before, including “Gallipoli” in 1981.
Great moments in film music: ‘North by Northwest’
The opening titles, designed by Saul Bass, for Alfred Hitchcock’s “North by Northwest,” music by Bernard Herrmann. That’s Hitch himself, missing the bus at the end.
Great moments in film music: ‘The Hudsucker Proxy’
This is the famous hula hoop sequence in the Coen brothers’ 1994 classic “The Hudsucker Proxy.” Though the film is set in late 1950s corporate America, the music of the Soviet Armenian composer Aram Khachaturian somehow suits it to a T. In this section, the music is taken from Khachaturian’s ballets, climaxing with the famous “Sabre Dance.” The hula hoop sequence is also a perfect illustration of the laws of supply and demand.
Great moments in film music: ‘The Big Store’
For the fun of it, another in an occasional series …
Chico and Harpo Marx play piano four hands in “The Big Store.”
