Just like the prologue to JFK by Williams

I also agree wiht pietari about Thin Red Line, especially Stone In my Heart

NP - Stargate (Arnold)

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Originally posted by JClark:
Marian: What did you make of the Sinfonia antarctica? I prefer the "Pastoral" myself; I also enjoy Bruckner's Te Deum quite well.

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Well, it's good at least. Unfortunatley, I got so many CDs recently that I didn't have the time to fully "explore" Antartica. I liked it, but if I listen to it again now, I'll probably like it even better. So, I can't really give a qualified statement yet. Timmer, that's also the reason why I didn't e-mail you to say what I think about it. I think I said that I'm going to do so, and I still want to.

Oh, and as for Bruckner, I'll just repeat that he's my absolute all-time favourite non-film composer.

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Originally posted by Lancelot:
I think "haunting" comes down to two or three notes which hit the ear just right...the way a passage shifts to minor when you think it's going to major, or the presence of a particular instrument that carries a melody, that sometimes is almost hidden within the sweep of the whole passage.

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That's not what I consider "haunting", but if it were, the best example that comes to my mind is the short major passage in the minor "Take her Back Again" on Much Ado About Nothing. One of my favourite moments of film scoring (as is the whole score).

Corigliano's Revolution, main theme.
To me, the essence of what "haunting" in music means.

maybe I'll post an mp3. maybe not. who knows?

Work on this often profoundly calm music began in the midst of war and in France, where Vaughan Williams served as an ambulance driver. On summer evenings in 1916 he would often drive to the top of a certain hill near Ecoivres to enjoy the Corot-like landscape in the sunset. There his third symphony began to take shape, mainly in contemplation though with some external promptings. Sometimes he heard a bugler practising below, occasionally hitting the seventh instead of the octave, and this became the basis of the second movement's trumpet solo. Perhaps, too, the wordless soprano solo which begins and ends the finale was suggested by a girl singing in the fields.

Marian,
If you haven't heard this piece.....well, you know what I'm saying!

Anyone else here heard this?,I love it!

go out and find John Adams' Violin Concerto. Some may call that haunting; the second movement expecially.