How I wish I'd never heard..........

[Petrushka]

I mercifully forget the words of a song that was set to the main theme of the first movement of the Tchaikovsky Pathetique. I accidentally caught it on R2 very many years ago and it took a very long time indeed (years rather than months) before the association disappeared. Just thinking of it now fills me with a nameless dread.

[cloughie]

I mercifully forget the words of a song that was set to the main theme of the first movement of the Tchaikovsky Pathetique. I accidentally caught it on R2 very many years ago and it took a very long time indeed (years rather than months) before the association disappeared. Just thinking of it now fills me with a nameless dread.

Some of these stolen classical tunes are tastefully done and I can almost accept them but 'Starry Night' is not one of them nor is the bastardised version of 'Debussy's Reverie' of a similar vintage.

[salymap]

Listening to Liszt's 'Paraphrase on Verdi's Rigoletto' earlier I recalled this being sung by a chicken. Wasn't it [she?] called Clara Cluck?? Is it an early Walt Disney memory?

[mercia]

Clara Cluck??

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpD4KyA8fS0

Clara starts clucking approx. 3 minutes in, soon joined by Donald. the final chord is a treat
what a good memory you have saly

[salymap]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpD4KyA8fS0

Clara starts clucking approx. 3 minutes in, soon joined by Donald. the final note is a treat
what a good memory you have saly

Thanks mercia. I have never seen it before, just heard it on the radio. That should wake up the neighbours.

[Nick Armstrong]

Clara Cluck

There's a lot of them about....

[salymap]

There's a lot of them about....

Of both sexes Caliban

[Warwick]

This piece always brings a tear to my eye. Pavarotti Last Performance "Nessun Dorma" @ Torino 2006

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0Sx5lbVlQA&feature=related

[Serial_Apologist]

This piece always brings a tear to my eye. Pavarotti Last Performance "Nessun Dorma" @ Torino 2006

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0Sx5...eature=related

Because you wish you'd never heard it?

[cloughie]

Heard Sibelius King Christian II Nocturne on Breakfast this morning - I have now got in my head the 60s group Rocking Berries' hit 'He's in Town'.

[3rd Viennese School]

I like these works, but joining in on the reminds you of a song:

the finale of Beethoven 7 appears in my head from time to time with its reference to Handel's Messiah.

Shostakovich Symphony no.2- we'll meet again

Tippett Symphony no.2 mvt 1- we're in the money!

[gradus]

Heldenleben final section, The Hero at peace (or summat) there is a rising slow passage in strings that always reminds me of the final part of the theme of the Eroica's last movt, perhaps deliberate on RS's part, more likely my imagination.
There is also a passage in Schumann 4 that sounds (to me) like it was the inspiration for the distinctive rhythm of the trio of the second movt of Tchaik's 3rd orchestral suite

[gradus]

Oops, posted previous message to wrong thread.

[vinteuil]

Was "posh" or "class" or something not once defined as being able to hear "William Tell" without thinking of the Lone Ranger?

.... watching Gentlemen Prefer Blondes today reminded me of the Bob Hope line - ' "culture" is the ability to describe Jane Russell without moving your hands.'

[Nick Armstrong]

.... watching Gentlemen Prefer Blondes today reminded me of the Bob Hope line - ' "culture" is the ability to describe Jane Russell without moving your hands.'

Brilliant