Uploaded by onlymenow55 on Feb 5, 2011
Performed on November 18th, 2010 at the Stony Brook University Staller Center as part of a program entitled "A Concert of Winds and Water".
Almost everyone is familiar with the musical march whistled by the British prisoners of war in the 1957 dramatic film The Bridge on the River Kwai. Written in 1914, Colonel Bogey is probably the most popular—and profitable—march ever composed. The director of the Royal Marines in Plymouth, England, F.J.Ricketts wrote the piece under the pseudonym Kenneth Alford (service men were not supposed to have professions outside of the military). Legend has it that the tune was inspired by a military golfing colleague who always whistled a two-note minor third phrase instead of shouting "fore". "Bogey" is a golfing term meaning one over par, and British golfers sometimes play matches "against Colonel Bogey". The tune was a big hit, selling a million copies of sheet music, and recorded many times, often with humorous and satirical verses. A World War II version featured anti-Hitler verses, making it an appropriate morale-boosting tune for the prisoners in the movie.
Pirates of the Caribbean Klaus Badelt (b.1967)
Walt Disney's theme park ride was the inspiration for this record breaking fantasy-adventure movie, produced in 2003. The musical score was provided by Klaus Badelt, a young German composer who had moved to Los Angeles in 1998. His movie music to date includes The Prince of Egypt; X-Men; Gladiator; Mission Impossible 2; and Pearl Harbor. After composing the music for the closing ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics in 2008, Badelt was commissioned by the Chinese government to write an opera about the first Emperor of China, Qin Shi Huangdi. The brief life of Emperor Qin, whose high lights include the building of the Great Wall, the burning of Confucian writings and a royal burial with his terra cotta soldiers, meets all the criteria for a grand opera. It is scheduled for production this winter.
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