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Schilling's work proved to be "a hit in its English-language version" alongside other commercial "successes". Those include Trio's "Da Da Da" and After the Fire's "Der Kommissar" (which was a cover of a release by Falco), with Nena's "99 Luftballons" crossing over the Atlantic Ocean to commercial praise even in an untranslated version. [3]
The English version contains the song "Major Tom (Coming Home)", which reached the top 15 in New Zealand [5] and the US, [6] and the top 50 in the UK. [7]The German version includes the songs "Major Tom (Völlig losgelöst)", which reached number one in Germany, Austria and Switzerland [8] [9] [10] and number two on the Dutch Top 40, [11] [12] as well as "Die Wüste lebt". [13]
Peter Schilling (born Pierre Michael Schilling; 28 January 1956) is a German synthpop musician whose songs often feature science-fiction themes like aliens, astronauts and catastrophes.
This is a list of compositions by composer, orchestrator and conductor Elmer Bernstein.. He composed and arranged scores for over 100 film scores including: Sudden Fear (1952), The Man with the Golden Arm (1955), The Ten Commandments (1956), Sweet Smell of Success (1957), The Magnificent Seven (1960), To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), The Great Escape (1963), Hud (1963), Thoroughly Modern Millie ...
Das Lied von der Erde (The song of the Earth) is an orchestral work for two voices and orchestra written by Gustav Mahler between 1908 and 1909. Described as a symphony when published, it comprises six movements for a large orchestra and two singers as the soloist alternating in the movements.
F. W. Bernstein (born Fritz Weigle; 4 March 1938 – 20 December 2018) was a German poet, cartoonist, satirist, and academic. He worked for the satirical biweekly pardon . After teaching at schools, he was professor of caricature and comics at the Berlin Academy of the Arts from 1984 to 1999.
The Skin of Our Teeth (1964): an aborted work from which Bernstein took material to use in his "Chichester Psalms" Alarums and Flourishes (1980): an aborted work from which Bernstein took material to use in "A Quiet Place" Tucker: an aborted concept for a musical version of the 1988 film "Tucker: The Man and His Dream"
The Song of the Earth is a ballet based on Das Lied von der Erde, a symphonic work written by the Austrian composer Gustav Mahler in 1908–1909. It is scored for two voices and orchestra, and has been used for ballets by several well-known choreographers, including Antony Tudor (1908–1987), Kenneth MacMillan (1929–1992), Heinz Spoerli ...