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Classic Films

question everything

(47,479 posts) Mon Feb 19, 2024, 11:17 PM Feb 19

Just watched The Man who Knew too Much

I am curious of whether the orchestral choral piece playing at Royal Albert Hall - where the action was - is a real piece or was just written for the movie. Not much was played.

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Just watched The Man who Knew too Much (Original Post) question everything Feb 19 OP

Dunno, didn't watch, but found this: elleng Feb 19 #1

Thank you. Yes, these are two different music scores question everything Feb 19 #2

Per Wikipedia, it was written for the 1934 film. Beartracks Feb 20 #3

The music in this film works so well.... BigmanPigman Feb 20 #4

elleng

(130,914 posts)

1. Dunno, didn't watch, but found this:

Reply to question everything (Original post)

Mon Feb 19, 2024, 11:36 PM

Feb 19

Storm Cloud Cantata. (1934). by Arthur Benjamin and D.B. Wyndham-Lewis ; Whatever Will Be, Will Be. (Que Sera, Sera). Music by Jay Livingston ; We'll Love Again.

question everything

(47,479 posts)

2. Thank you. Yes, these are two different music scores

Reply to elleng (Reply #1)

Mon Feb 19, 2024, 11:44 PM

Feb 19

Beartracks

(12,814 posts)

3. Per Wikipedia, it was written for the 1934 film.

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Tue Feb 20, 2024, 12:51 AM

Feb 20

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm_Clouds_Cantata

Arthur Benjamin scored the 1934 version of The Man Who Knew Too Much, including the climactic cantata, but it seems the cantata was also used in the 1956 version (for which Bernard Hermann composed the film score).

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BigmanPigman

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4. The music in this film works so well....

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Tue Feb 20, 2024, 01:50 AM

Feb 20

When Doris Day sings "Que Sera, Sera" and pauses for a slit second when she realizes her son is alive in that mansion I always take a breath with her.

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Skip to 4:30

Orchestra scene...

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