"Light" contemporary music?

[french frank]

After the lovely pentatonic melody a short distance into Vaughan Williams's The Wasps overture was played, a member of the opposing team asked, "Is it from a Western?"

I've always thought the same - it has the real smell of "The Big Country" about it. (Not very appropriate!)

[Serial_Apologist]

I've always thought the same - it has the real smell of "The Big Country" about it. (Not very appropriate!)

I wonder what music might express "the Big Society"? "Rule Britannia"?

[ahinton]

I wonder what music might express "the Big Society"?

Anything sung by Jess(y)e Norman, presumably (given that his book on the subject must surely be the only place in which David Cameron and Arnold Schönberg get a mention on the same page).

Seriously, though, didn't Cole Porter write High Society many years ago?...

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I wonder what music might express "the Big Society"?

I would say "Peer Gynt", but it would be libellous to explain why.

[Chris Newman]

I've always thought the same - it has the real smell of "The Big Country" about it. (Not very appropriate!)

I agree, ff. Yet when I said the same thing on the old boards and people thought I was mad.

[Tristan Klingsor]

I wonder what music might express "the Big Society"? "Rule Britannia"?

The Smiths' "Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now" I should think.