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LOG IN Forgot Login? Register General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board Search Terms:  Search Within:  topics posts since 2019 2018 posts 2017 posts 2016 posts 2015 posts 2014 posts 2013 posts 2012 posts 2011 posts 2010 posts 2009 posts 2008 posts 2007 posts 2006 posts 2005 posts 2004 posts 2003 posts 2002 posts 2001 posts 2000 posts users  search tips  You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1      General Discussion: Herrmann and Handel?   Last Post   Posted:   Feb 17, 2014 - 4:47 PM     By:   Mike_H   (Member) I was listening to some Handel the other day and found myself thinking, wait a sec that sounds like a piece from Herrmann's Walking Distance! The piece is L’Allegro, il Penseroso, ed il Moderato- a pastoral ode based on poems by John Milton. The lyrics are: Thus past the day, to bed they creep By whisp’ring winds soon lull’d asleep. I wonder if the music was an intentional quote by Herrmann or just one of those funny coincidences. Walking Distance: "Martin's Summer" (starts at 10:45) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJPSW6Atcak The Handel piece: the section begins at 47:44, with the direct string quote beginning at 49:00. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLWRwHeosHM    Posted:   Feb 17, 2014 - 5:11 PM     By:   Jim Doherty   (Member) At first, while listening from the starting point you mentioned, I thought to myself, "Nope, I don't hear it." I was just about to turn it off, when suddenly, at 48:25, there it was. From 48:25 to about 49:39, the resemblance is more than just passing. Herrmann knew Handel's music, he conducted it at CBS, he quoted from it in FOR THE FALLEN. With all this in mind, I tend to think Herrmann probably slipped this into WALKING DISTANCE on purpose - not as a steal, but as an actual quote. This is pretty cool. Thanks for posting it. (I seem to remember a post similar to this about a Herrmann cue, either here or on the Herrmann site, but I can't remember the classical piece or the film.)    Posted:   Feb 17, 2014 - 5:17 PM     By:   Jim Doherty   (Member) From the Bernard Herrmann website: http://herrmann.uib.no/talking/view.cgi?forum=thGeneral&topic=3222    Posted:   Feb 18, 2014 - 1:10 AM     By:   jontowers   (Member) I was listening to some Handel the other day and found myself thinking, wait a sec that sounds like a piece from Herrmann's Walking Distance! The piece is L’Allegro, il Penseroso, ed il Moderato- a pastoral ode based on poems by John Milton. The lyrics are: Thus past the day, to bed they creep By whisp’ring winds soon lull’d asleep. I wonder if the music was an intentional quote by Herrmann or just one of those funny coincidences. Walking Distance: "Martin's Summer" (starts at 10:45) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJPSW6Atcak The Handel piece: the section begins at 47:44, with the direct string quote beginning at 49:00. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLWRwHeosHM Check out this article from 2009: http://www.americanmusicpreservation.com/WalkingDistanceTwilightZone.htm    Posted:   Jul 24, 2014 - 2:48 AM     By:   Mike_H   (Member) I watched Walking Distance on July 4 as is my custom ("band concerts and three-scoop ice cream sodas!") and remembered this fun little tidbit. A gorgeous moment, especially when the children all leave the carousel and the lights shift to illuminate Martin only. Great theatrical moment.     General Discussion: Herrmann and Handel?    < 1  >   Go to page:  1   First Post    General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1

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