Alphabet associations - I

[Nick Armstrong]

Just to confirm that I am looking for the name of a classical piece of music common to all three films.

Ah... just returned and belatedly saw the above. So not "Goldsmith"...

[BetweenTheStaves]

It's gone deathly quiet.

[Tapiola]

I am baffled by this one. World cinema is about my limits I'm afraid and am hopelessly out of touch with Hollywood films. I think the only Harrison Ford films I have seen are Star Wars 4-6. And I have only seen Sigourney Weaver in Alien.

[BetweenTheStaves]

Well, there you go! Alien is one of the films. G featured in another seminal film that I would hazard a guess everyone has seen or certainly heard of but if I'd given hints to that film then it would have been too easy. I have to confess surprise to see that G featured in the other three films I'm referring to in the clue. Now you have one of the films, it should be plain-sailing.

[vinteuil]

well, Caliban has already told us that Jerry Goldsmith composed the music for 'Alien' ... so presumably it ain't that?

[Nick Armstrong]

Well, there you go! Alien is one of the films. G featured in another seminal film that I would hazard a guess everyone has seen or certainly heard of but if I'd given hints to that film then it would have been too easy. I have to confess surprise to see that G featured in the other three films I'm referring to in the clue. Now you have one of the films, it should be plain-sailing.

I know Hanson's 2nd was used illegally in the closing credit sequence of Alien but this is 'G' not 'H'

[Nick Armstrong]

I know Hanson's 2nd was used illegally in the closing credit sequence of Alien but this is 'G' not 'H'

...nor 'R' (I think Hanson 2 is called The Romantic?)

[BetweenTheStaves]

Just picked up on this thread and the film is Aliens (plural) and not Alien (singular)..mea culpa..mea maxima culpa. The reference to Goldsmith made me check up.

As penance, I will force myself to listen to ClassicFM for a day.

[Anna]

It's possibly the adagio from the Gayan Ballet Suite by Khachaturian and the other films could be Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger.

[BetweenTheStaves]

It's possibly the adagio from the Gayan Ballet Suite by Khachaturian and the other films could be Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger.

Well done, Anna. It is indeed Gayaneh....which, of course, featured in 2001. Over to you for H.

[Tapiola]

Well done Anna. I was getting nowhere with this until I got a moment of inspiration and looked up track listings on Amazon - but just too late!

Almost o'clock again.

[Anna]

Well done Anna. I was getting nowhere with this until I got a moment of inspiration and looked up track listings on Amazon - but just too late!

Almost o'clock again.

I'll join you in one of those Tapiola!! To be honest I have never heard of that ballet suite, I only got the answer by reading an article about James Horner and his scoring of the film Aliens and it was in fact only briefly sampled in the films, so I think it was a rather obscure puzzle to get! I'll have to think of an H and get back to you shortly.

[rubbernecker]

I know Hanson's 2nd was used illegally in the closing credit sequence of Alien

It is one of the great cinematic moments, when Ripley has finally rid herself of the beast by toasting it in the afterburner, and you hear the lush and earth-welcoming strains of Hanson 2. But tell me, o great one, how come it was used illegally?

[Tapiola]

I'll join you in one of those Tapiola!! To be honest I have never heard of that ballet suite, I only got the answer by reading an article about James Horner and his scoring of the film Aliens and it was in fact only briefly sampled in the films, so I think it was a rather obscure puzzle to get! I'll have to think of an H and get back to you shortly.

H for hoppy Hefe-Weisse. Cheers. Oops, that is another thread.

[Anna]

This, I am afraid, is going to be a straightfoward one, brain not working due to freezing cold weather!

Which of H’s works shares a title with a famous painting, is known for brotherly love and revolutionaries and has a connection with Auden.