@jlesow Thanks! I've listened to both of them carefully, and what I hear is the theme - Jurassic Park main theme in JP video - and a totally different traditional Russian Christmas Carol theme here - starting at times indicated by you. JP theme is in 4/4 - Russian Christmas Carol is in 3/4. Totally different melody as well. The only similarity I hear is the 2 chord harmonic structure of the melody - which is true for 4 bars for Russian songs and for 2 bars of JP theme - that's all I could find.
@jlesow Yes, I believe, it is a traditional Russian Christmas hymn - "Christ Is Born". Why Jurassic Park??? I love the soundtrack (and very familiar with it) - but don't recognize any theme similar to this one.
@detah1 I don't hear a lot of similarities - maybe, some. This song was composed in mid-90's - long before " When Christmas Comes To Town.". It has couple of traditional Russian Christmas melodies incorporated into the texture of the song, as I hear it - "Song of the Christmas Tree" and traditional Russian Christmas Carol. But the rest is completely original music, though. It does sound great!
This song was also during Christmas on TWC's local forecasts in 1992 and 1993.
faceseyesweirdhumor2 3 months ago
The theme I'm talking about starts at about 1:20 in the Jurassic park video
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and about 4:55 in the Evergreen video. You can slide the time indicators to get to the relevant parts.
jlesow 1 year ago
@jlesow Thanks! I've listened to both of them carefully, and what I hear is the theme - Jurassic Park main theme in JP video - and a totally different traditional Russian Christmas Carol theme here - starting at times indicated by you. JP theme is in 4/4 - Russian Christmas Carol is in 3/4. Totally different melody as well. The only similarity I hear is the 2 chord harmonic structure of the melody - which is true for 4 bars for Russian songs and for 2 bars of JP theme - that's all I could find.
tinhorse58 1 year ago
If you skip to 4:55 you'll hear a familiar theme from Jurassic Park. Is that a Russian folk melody?
jlesow 1 year ago
@jlesow Yes, I believe, it is a traditional Russian Christmas hymn - "Christ Is Born". Why Jurassic Park??? I love the soundtrack (and very familiar with it) - but don't recognize any theme similar to this one.
tinhorse58 1 year ago
I couldn't put my finger on it until just now. Part of your melody is very similar to the Polar Express song, When Christmas Comes To Town.
detah1 1 year ago
@detah1 I don't hear a lot of similarities - maybe, some. This song was composed in mid-90's - long before " When Christmas Comes To Town.". It has couple of traditional Russian Christmas melodies incorporated into the texture of the song, as I hear it - "Song of the Christmas Tree" and traditional Russian Christmas Carol. But the rest is completely original music, though. It does sound great!
tinhorse58 1 year ago
Great stuff.
detah1 1 year ago
just saw him today in milwaukee
SpArKpLuG12994 1 year ago
Beautiful!
AdamsApple1963 2 years ago