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champagne music program


I've recently viewed this as part of one of those inexpensive Mill Creek collections and although not entirely interested in the cinematic element, I was captivated by the music program accompanying this silent feature. I wonder does anyone have the ablilty to list all the composers and pieces that are featured on this film?

I'm not sure if all are the same, but on the version I saw I heard Dvorak's Humoresque, Sibelius's Finlandia (a heavy as fXck piece of music for this rather light film eh?), Ravel's Bolero, and an Elgar March.

Can anyone list the program?
thnks

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On my disc, the acompaniment was solo piano in 1920s style, which fit the story perfectly. Also the print was incredibly good quality, as if filmed yesterday.

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Wow. I was hoping to find where a smidgen of music in this movie might have its origins and your post pointed me to it immediately (Dvorak's "Humoresque")! Amazing!

It's the scene where the father tells her about the money being gone, immediately after her head stops spinning, where she brightens up and says, "Oh you're only joking," and gives a sly little laugh. I watched that scene over and over again until I recognized where I heard that refrain before. It was "Heavy Horses" by Jethro Tull. It's not exactly the same, but strikingly similar. You can hear what I'm talking about here at 1:10, right when the verse starts:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ojt4aAw2PQ

I wonder if they did this intentionally as a sort of homage to Dvorak. Seems too similar to be accidental.

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I, too, have the Mill Creek version, which apparently has a different soundtrack from the original version. You can see the original, along with the superior film quality that pauline49 refers to at:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLVmaBQ8Gdo

Makes you realize how inferior the Mill Creek version is. I do like the music better in the Mill Creek version, though.

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