Valentine's Day, Sunday, February 14, 2010 at 10:20 am

different. But my guess is that the noble HORNS playing the Mahler idea (as in the StarTrek theme) were the selling point to you.You can get all kinds of music from other composers that would start with this threenotebeginning and then come up with something else. For example, remember thefamous Flying Theme of the old SUPERMAN series?? It too is a three-note motif at thestart, and repeated again, and then develops into a much larger and quicker structure--buthighly memorable. But INITIALLY it is not unlike Mahler's idea here. For all we know,subconsciously, Courage was actually influenced by that Flying Theme than by this hardto-findor buried section of a Mahler movement!The start of the First symphony by Mahler is a longer and more enduring similarity orsentiment or infield ballpark--but still not a close match. You get some close matches,however, with some of Herrmann's ideas with other composers such as Debussy,Rachmaninoff, Wagner, and others that I have discussed before in this Forum and in myblogs.Portions of that "A tempo" and "Subito Allegro" remind me by association of some ofTiomkin's music, specifically Fall of the Roman Empire, but no specific citing but rathera very similar ambiance.OK. Enough of Mahler and Star Trek (since they really have nothing to do with myupdated site and current blog!).**********************Talking Herrmann: MP3 of Cue XXXI 'Night Digger' Updated FSR SiteReply by: Bill Wrobel ()______________________________________________________________________J.J.:All of your entries are fine, and I especially liked the "Monorail" selection.However, time and effort is limited (especially if it is free time & effort, finding room todo the Labor Of Love projects). I think the best application of such time & effort for theHerrmann Centennial is to be placed on World Premiere performances--music byHerrmann either never heard before (or rarely) and never recorded (cd, dvd, etc.). Thereis a lot of material to select from, and several of my suggestions are:CBS television scores.-This would include at least several atmospheric and suspense cues from House on KStreet, including the cues, "Murder" (a pyramid dynamic building & then deconstructingtype of music),"The Pencil" (brass and vibes), "Stone's House," and maybe "Fade-In" and"Finale" (although you can hear them in some old CBS series episodes).107