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Classical Music

usonian

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12. Love that. Borodin hit it out of the park!

Reply to elleng (Reply #10)

Sun May 8, 2022, 05:55 PM

May 2022

I limited my "search" to popular music (except for Carmen Jones) because classical music in movies is endless. I grew up listening to Boston Pops concerts with Arthur Fiedler, and the last third of each concert was all "popular" and movie music.

Leonard Bernstein was composing crossover classical/popular/Broadway music after Gershwin.

BTW. Eddie Duchin's theme song, from Chopin.

Great thread. Brings back memories.

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Did you know that All by Myself by Eric Carmen & Cline Dion was based on Rachmaninov's [View all] elleng May 2022 OP

Yup... A wonderful interweaving of a beautiful classical piece. hlthe2b May 2022 #1

Great that you knew it! elleng May 2022 #2

Never heard that Brubeck was inspired by Mozart or any classical, but I love his music. hlthe2b May 2022 #3

Me too! elleng May 2022 #4

His song, "Never gonna fall in love again" - also borrowed from Rachmaninov elias7 May 2022 #5

Nice! elleng May 2022 #6

Older, but there is this: rsdsharp May 2022 #7

Thanks! elleng May 2022 #8

More popular songs based on classical themes (no spoilers!) usonian May 2022 #9

THANKS! elleng May 2022 #10

Love that. Borodin hit it out of the park! usonian May 2022 #12

REALLY, Borodin DID, elleng May 2022 #13

Borodin won a posthumous Tony Award for that, in 1954. eppur_se_muova May 2022 #14

Great! elleng May 2022 #15

Some of those are quite a stretch--they'd surely win the hypothetical copyright suit if that could hlthe2b May 2022 #11