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What is the music that the Philarmonic Orchestra play at the beginning of Red Dragon?
It’s the “Scherzo After Act I” from Felix Mendelsshon’s A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM. More commonly, I guess the music is connected with Puck, which maybe has some sort of twisted relevance to Hannibal himself. More than likely, however, it’s known as a difficult piece for flutists to perform, and perhaps that’s why it was selected.
I cannot thankyou enough and thankyou also for the additional insight. I dont suppose you know what the piano stuff is he listens to whilst he is having dinner in his cell??? I think it might be the same as he plays whilst he hosts the dinner party at the beginning.
Sorry, I don’t know that one.
Have you watched the end credits? Most of the time they have to credit even the shortest clip of music towards the end of the credits.
Yes I did stay for the end credits and all that was there was three songs performed by a band, so definately not piano music. The Mendlessohn from the beginning wasn’t even listed on the credits, perhaps because it was cut up so much??? It would have been nice to see the Aria from the Goldberg Variations in Red Dragon, Id made a great link between ‘Hannibal’ and ‘Silence of the lambs’.
don’t they only have to credit composers if they’re alive or if their stuff is copyrighted?This is probably the case with the piano music.
If they used a copyrighted recording of a classical work, they will have to list it. If they had someone record the classical work especially for the film, they have the option of listing it or not.
Blah! Shakespeare corrupts everything!
(Bitter former English Major who has a useless degree, who was forced against her will to study that–that man for far too much too long. I’m not scarred at all)….
Dead – I sympathize with your severe dislike of “The Bard.” Let’s just say that I’m NOT a fan, either.
Does anybody know if any of Al Reed’s work has been put into films (not as the actual score, but just as “filler”)? I’m not aware of any, but I haven’t been looking that closely, either…
-E
How did we go from trying to find a particular piece of classical music to bashing Shakespeare? I’m a drama teacher and he’s part of our curriculum. One thing’s for sure, I’m never telling my students about this website until this particular thread is way down on the list…otherwise my job of showing them his excellence (like it or not) gets that much harder.
I love Shakespeare. I consider A Comedy Of Errors on of the best comedies written in any medium (and it certainly is a formula felt to this day). I did a book report on that play when I was in 10th grade and my teacher was speechless. I also turn to the Bard’s work when writting music as an inspiration for libretto.
Nat, a Shakespeare fan
Sorry guys, but I’m sticking with my original comment. However, I”ll add that it is only *my* opinion, so you should take it with a “block of salt,” to quote Ryan. It’s my belief that students are being taught loads of Shakespeare to the detriment of other fine writers (DeLillo, and yes, Nabokov come to mind). Also, I do immensely enjoy Shakespeare plays and films – just not reading the text. I’m definitely more interested in Beat and Russian literature, so I suppose that only validates my “unorthodox curriculum,” at least in my district.
Brian – as mentioned before, I love Shakespeare plays and films. I wasn’t saying that Shakespeare isn’t fine theater, just that I’m not quite sure it should have as much emphasis as it currently does in the English classroom. I don’t think that students should have to struggle over syntax and diction to understand the meaning of a text – at least not *too* much. I’m not advocating “simple” language -not by any means – but I am advocating the use of texts written in 19th century English or later.
I find it funny how many former, and current, English majors dislike Shakespeare…we, along with thespians, are supposed to be the ones so enamored of his work (at least in theory)
-E
Amen, Erika!
I don’t like Shakespeare, namely because I didn’t have a choice in if I wanted to study him or not. I mean, in high school it was crammed down my throat for four years. And, then in college I had to study the exact same plays, with the exact same themes, and the exact same context for another four years.
And, call me crazy (lots of people do), but I think it’s a bit excessive, considering there’s a ton of great writers from different times, cultures, genders, and whatnot.
In short, I feel Shakespeare kills other writers. I mean, I think it’s pretty sad if people tend to think the greatest writing ever has already been wrote. I mean, what’s the point in reading anything new, then?
Plus, I think a ton of students (like myself) end up resenting English classes, when they can be fun. I mean, I’ve got an English degree, but I had to wade through a ton of bull-@!#$ classes to actually get to the ones I enjoyed.
And I wonder how many people ditched English, just because they didn’t wait it out to get to the good stuff….
Anyways, all this originally started because someone mentioned a piece from “A Midnight Summer’s Dream” and whenever I even think I hear Shakespeare, I immediately think “blah!”
And that’s not gonna change. I mean, I can respect what he did for the literary community and such, but that doesn’t mean I have to get a kick out of his work, in and of itself.
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