Theme music.

[vandermolen]

Bit of a long shot but anyone recognise the music from about two minutes in to the end of the Pathe News feature about the death of Donald Campbell (an event I remember).

It may well be music written for the feature but it also sounds to me like the music of an American composer like Willliam Schuman:

http://streaming.britishpathe.com/hls-vod/flash/00000000/00055000/00055776.mp4.m3u8

[pjme]

Good morning,

I wasn't able to open the link. Could it be this YT film?

https://youtu.be/4xemKc2In5Y

I do not recognise the music..

Peter

[vandermolen]

Good morning,

I wasn't able to open the link. Could it be this YT film?

https://youtu.be/4xemKc2In5Y

I do not recognise the music..

Peter

Well, thank you very much Peter for listening to it anyway. Yes, You Tube clip.

[The new erato]

Copland? The mention of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men reminds me that Agee's novel inspired Copland to write his opera The Tender Land.

[vandermolen]

Copland? The mention of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men reminds me that Agee's novel inspired Copland to write his opera The Tender Land.

Thanks so much for listening to it. It does indeed sound like Copland but I'm pretty familiar with Copland's work and don't recognise it. I'm sure it's American though.

[some guy]

I would say that it does not sound the tiniest bit like either Schuman or Copland, who don't sound anything alike, either.

It does sound like generic documentary music, churned out by the yard by people hired by the studios to do just that.

[vandermolen]

I would say that it does not sound the tiniest bit like either Schuman or Copland, who don't sound anything alike, either.

It does sound like generic documentary music, churned out by the yard by people hired by the studios to do just that.

Ok thanks, although I thought that it sounded a cut above that.