I have an embarrassing admission. This weekend while I was watching the television, I saw an interesting commercial with a completely gorgeous song in it. I could have sworn up and down that the song was the theme from Alan Menken’s score for Beauty and the Beast.
Well, I was wrong. It wasn’t Disney but Camille Saint-Saëns’ the Aquarium movement from Carnival of the Animals. Talk about feeling sheepish.
So in addition to this little incident and the Oscar nominations on Tuesday, I was thinking about film scores and classical music, and how the two inform each other.
How many times have you heard music at the movies and couldn’t help but think it was Holst and not Horner who’d written the score? And how frequently have you seen outstanding orchestras and performers lending their talents to film scores?
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Hello Hollywood! Classical music at the movies
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