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Sorry, I didn't mean to jump the gun - your James is clearly more in line with the other two!
For new readers - your 'O' is post no. 899.
You were quite right about the ‘behind the times’ reference btw
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.
.. and Herbert Stothart, born in Milwaukee, did the music for "Pride and Prejudice" (1940) which starred Laurence Olivier & Greer Garson.
To recap:
Brooklyn-born Carl Davis wrote the theme to The World At War.
Milwaukee-born Herbert Stothard wrote the score for the 1940 version of Pride and Prejudice
Oldham-born William Walton scored Shakespeare films starring Olivier (and his 'Battle In The Air' was all that remained of the music he composed for Battle of Britain)
It looks as though AD has triumphed again, although cloughie brought the Bard on board.
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