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The 1977 film The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training uses a portion of Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture. Also, the movie's theme song, James Rolleston's "Life is Lookin' Good," uses a variation of the music. Canadian progressive rock band Rush adopted the famous brass theme of 1812 Overture in their suite 2112, from their album of the same name ...
The William Tell Overture is the overture to the opera William Tell (original French title Guillaume Tell), composed by Gioachino Rossini. William Tell premiered in 1829 and was the last of Rossini's 39 operas, after which he went into semi-retirement (he continued to compose cantatas, sacred music and secular vocal music).
J. J. Starbuck ("Gone Again") - music by Mike Post, lyrics by Stephen Geyer performed by Ronnie Milsap; The Jack Benny Program (end credit theme, "The J & M Stomp") – Mahlon Merrick; The Jackie Gleason Show ("Melancholy Serenade") – Jackie Gleason; Jackpot, 1974–75 version ("Jet Set") – Mike Vickers (later used for This Week in Baseball)
Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 9780374285937; Sangild, Torben (2015). "Buñuel's Liebestod – Wagner's Tristan in Luis Buñuel's early films: Un Chien Andalou and L'Âge d'Or", in JMM: The Journal of Music and Meaning, vol. 13, 2014/2015, pp. 20–59. Retrieved 16 August 2017.
Several songs used in the film were omitted from the soundtrack. These included the first track to be played in the background of the movie's ending credits, "Street Fighting Man" by The Rolling Stones, Beethoven's 5th Symphony, and "Long Black Train" by Richard Hawley. "Yakety Sax" by Boots Randolph and James Rich are also omitted.
2001: A Space Odyssey is a soundtrack album to the film of the same name, released in 1968.The soundtrack is known for its use of many classical and orchestral pieces, and credited for giving many classical pieces resurgences in popularity, such as Johann Strauss II's 1866 Blue Danube Waltz, Richard Strauss' symphonic poem Also sprach Zarathustra, and György Ligeti's Atmosphères.
In 2012, the UK-based Co-Operative Funeralcare compiled a list of the most popular, classical, contemporary and religious music across 30,000 funerals. Canon in D placed second on the Classical chart, behind Edward Elgar's "Nimrod". [4] The Trans-Siberian Orchestra's 1998 song "Christmas Canon" is a "take" on Pachelbel's Canon. [31]
Allied (Music from the Motion Picture) is the soundtrack to the 2016 film of the same name directed by Robert Zemeckis. The film was scored by Zemeckis' regular collaborator Alan Silvestri in his 16th film together, ever since their collaboration with Romancing the Stone (1984). [ 1 ]