[LAU] Re: KVR Music Cafe Contest

Fons Adriaensen <[email protected]> writes:

> On Tue, Jul 15, 2025 at 08:38:51AM +0100, Will Godfrey wrote:
>
>> Ride Of The Valkyries (and you don't get much angrier than those!)
>
> Nice work as usual !
>
> But there is no anger in the action or lyrics of Wagner's opera
> at this point. The Valkyries assemble on a mountain top, preparing
> to bring fallen heros to Valhalla. But they have a problem: one of
> them is pregnant and they fear that this may not please Wotan at 
> all. Which turns out to be the case.
>
> 'Excitement' would probably be a better description of what
> the Ride expresses. The popular association with anger and
> agression is probably the result of the way this music was
> used in 'Apocalypse Now'.

1979.  Use in "Blues Brothers" 1980.  Use in "Rescue on Fractulus" 1984.
Certainly had a bit of a renaissance after Coppola used it in
"Apocalypse Now".

-- 
David Kastrup
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