Klarinet Archive - Posting 000534.txt from 1995/10

From: "Steven M. Gorelick" <SMG@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: Bad movies about music
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 1995 15:14:59 -0400

Movies:

I hope I don't bring on the scorn of the purists, but --
authentic or not -- "Amadeus" was a joy! I just wish they had used
K. 622!

The Glenn Miller Story also -- flaws and all -- was a lot of fun.

Here's a question:

What are people's favorite movie and/or movie score in which our
beloved instrument was prominently featured?

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- 0800 (PST) From: OLIVER SEELY <oliver@-----.EDU>
Subject: Re: Bad movies about music
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Bruce Hudson raises a point to which I want to contribute as
well. When I was an adolescent the move "Windjammer" came out,
the story of a Norwegian boy who sails to Boston with a group
of boys somehow destined to become officers in the Norwegian
Navy (the details escape me). The kid is a better than
middling pianist and upon arrival at Boston harbor,
Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops are waiting to accompany
him on the Grieg concerto (on the dock, as I recall).

As a kid I was enraptured by it, but as I look back I think
of it sadly as something of a pot boiler. We ought I think
to be tolerant of those films aimed at the younger set.

I'm certainly not going to knock ANY attempt by the media to
promote serious music, so although neither "Music Lovers"
(Tchaikovsky) nor "Eternally Beloved" (Beethoven) quite
worked for me in a cinematographic sense, I LOVED the music
and floated over the sometimes ragged plot development.

Oliver

   
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