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 Posted:   Oct 20, 2016 - 8:50 AM   
 By:   Sean Nethery   (Member)

This is one of my favorite lovely-melody numbers in all of the scores from the 1950's. I'm not usually as fond of Victor Young as other Golden-Age composers, but the music box piece always brings me up short - in the movie and on its own. And in case you're saying, "oh, no! a music box!" - it's not what you think at all.

Big Show-Music Box (Scaramouche)

 
 Posted:   Oct 21, 2016 - 12:10 AM   
 By:   Philip Colston   (Member)

Ah, yes—one of the loveliest pieces in all of film score history, especially the section beginning at 1:45. I have often thought that it should be expanded into a proper concert piece.

A composer who often came close to the sensibility, and even the Baroque idiom, of The Magic Box was Georges Delerue. Consider the Grand Choral from Truffaut's La Nuit Américaine, 1973:


 
 Posted:   Oct 21, 2016 - 7:09 AM   
 By:   Sean Nethery   (Member)

Absolutely right, Philip. And I was too lazy to identify the key point about when the real magic happens at 1:45, thanks for adding that.

 
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