"opening aria of Papageno, from ""The Magic Flute"" (1791) by Mozart. When Bugs professes his hatred of the peace and quiet, demanding someone to get him out of this place, the tune is the ""Ride of the Valkyries"". Neil Lerner attempts to decipher Carl Stalling's intentions in quoting Wagner at the end of the battle scenes. He suggests that it is connected to the role of the Valkyries, taking fallen warriors to Valhalla. In this case, the use is ironic as Stalling would not view the deceased Japanese soldiers as fallen heroes who deserve an afterlife paradise. As Bugs signals"
"was composed in 1854 as part of the composition of the entire opera, which was fully orchestrated by the end of the first quarter of 1856. In the ""Walküre"" opera, the ""Ride"", which takes around eight minutes, begins in the prelude to the third act, building up successive layers of accompaniment until the curtain rises to reveal a mountain peak where four of the eight Valkyrie sisters of Brünnhilde have gathered in preparation for the transportation of fallen heroes to Valhalla. As they are joined by the other four, the familiar tune is carried by the orchestra, while, above it,"
"The Ride (David Allan Coe song) ""The Ride"" is a song written by Gary Gentry and J.B. Detterline Jr., and recorded by American country singer-songwriter David Allan Coe. It was released in February 1983 as the lead single from the album, ""Castles in the Sand"". The song spent 19 weeks on the ""Billboard"" country singles charts, reaching a peak of number four and peaked at number two on the Canadian ""RPM"" Country Tracks chart. Writer Gary Gentry told ""Billboard"" magazine, ""there's a mysterious magic connected with this song that spells cold chills, leading me to believe that it was meant"
"in his bunker at Berlin. It was destroyed (along with the autograph scores of Die Feen, Das Liebesverbot and Rienzi, and the fair copy of Die Walküre) shortly before the fall of Berlin in May 1945 (though a number of conspiracy theories continue to claim otherwise). As we have seen, Wagner sketched out the theme for the Ride of the Valkyries on 23 July 1851; other than this, the earliest musical sketches for ""Die Walküre"" date from the summer of 1852. But it was not until 28 June 1854 that Wagner began to transform these into a complete draft of"
"Die Walküre ' (The Valkyrie""""'), WWV 86B is the second of the four music dramas that constitute Richard Wagner's ""Der Ring des Nibelungen,"" (English: ""The Ring of the Nibelung""). It was performed, as a single opera, at the National Theatre Munich on 26 June 1870, and received its first performance as part of the ""Ring"" cycle at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus on 14 August 1876. As the ""Ring"" cycle was conceived by Wagner in reverse order of performance, ""Die Walküre"" was the penultimate of the four texts to be written, although Wagner composed the music in the proper sequence. The text"
"which several series of Moorcock's novels are set, Elric is one of the many incarnations of the Eternal Champion, an immortal being doomed to reincarnate in many heroes and to fight forever. The destiny of the incarnation called Elric is to be the herald of the final battle between Chaos and Law for the Earth. “The Ride of the Valkyries” is a tribute to Richard Wagner and to his operas inspired by northern mythology. The song features the theme of the opera “Die Walküre” from the “Der Ring des Nibelungen”. ""For Evermore"" alludes to Queen's songs ""Nevermore"" and ""Seven Seas"
"Nightride and Sunrise Nightride and Sunrise, also Night Ride and Sunrise () is a tone poem composed by Jean Sibelius in 1908. Sibelius gave different accounts of the inspiration for this music. One, told to Karl Ekman, was his first visit to the Colosseum in Rome in 1901. Another account, given in his later years to his secretary Santeri Levas, was a sledge ride from Helsinki to Kerava ""at some time around the turn of the century"", during which he saw a striking sunrise. Sibelius scored it for piccolo, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, bass clarinet, 2 bassoons, contrabassoon,"
"Willie Nelson,<br>Guy Clark and Billy Joe Shaver, David Allan Coe,<br>And you even got my son."" The Ride (David Allan Coe song) ""The Ride"" is a song written by Gary Gentry and J.B. Detterline Jr., and recorded by American country singer-songwriter David Allan Coe. It was released in February 1983 as the lead single from the album, ""Castles in the Sand"". The song spent 19 weeks on the ""Billboard"" country singles charts, reaching a peak of number four and peaked at number two on the Canadian ""RPM"" Country Tracks chart. Writer Gary Gentry told ""Billboard"" magazine, ""there's a mysterious magic connected"
"The Valkyries The Valkyries (; ) is a 1992 novel by Paulo Coelho. The book is written as a third-person narrative describing how Paulo and his wife embark on a 40 day journey through the Mojave Desert. There they meet the valkyries, a group of warrior women who travel the desert on motorcycles. At the beginning of the story, ""J"", Coelho's master in RAM, shows him a copy of the poem by Wilde that says ""we destroy what we love"" and this theme is central to the story. Paulo: The author as himself. Chris: Paulo’s Wife. Mr. J: Paulo’s Master."
"tunes include: ""The British Grenadiers""; ""Marching Through Georgia""; ""The Girl I Left Behind""; ""Arkansas Traveler""; ""Massa's in the Cold Ground""; ""The Battle Cry of Freedom""; ""Yankee Doodle""; ""Columbia, Gem of the Ocean""; ""Hail, Columbia""; ""Tramp! Tramp! Tramp!""; ""The Star-Spangled Banner""; and Richard Wagner's ""The Ride of the Valkyries"". First drafts were written primarily in the summer of 1908, reworked in 1911 and then again in 1913, extending the atmospheric depiction of mists and running water far longer than the original first two measures. The scoring was completed in 1914. It was arranged as a song in 1921 to lines excerpted"
"Wagner made another abortive attempt to compose music for his gradually emerging operatic cycle. Only a handful of sketches survive for ""Der junge Siegfried"" (""The Young Siegfried"", as ""Siegfried"" was originally called). Some of these were later drawn upon when Wagner came to compose ""Siegfried"" proper in 1856. A few other sketches survive from these early years. On 23 July 1851 Wagner wrote down on a loose sheet of paper what was to become the best-known leitmotif in the entire cycle: the theme from the ""Ride of the Valkyries"" (""Walkürenritt""). Other early sketches for Die Walküre were made in the"
"Valleys of Neptune (song) ""Valleys of Neptune"" is a song by American rock musician Jimi Hendrix, featured on his 2010 posthumous studio album ""Valleys of Neptune"". Written and produced by Hendrix, the song was originally recorded between 1969 and 1970. Hendrix began work on the musical composition for ""Valleys of Neptune"", under the title of ""Gypsy Blood"", in February 1969, with the first recordings taking place at Olympic Sound Studios in London on February 22 & 26, 1969 – three takes on guitar and piano and one take on guitar, respectively. Hendrix wrote the lyrics for the song under the"
"Oscar Potoker Oscar Potoker (born Vinnytsia April 26, 1880, death 26 Jun 1935 - Los Angeles, age 55) was a musician and film composer. In Russia, Potoker composed chamber works based on Jewish folk music. Potoker immigrated from Russia to Paris, France, where he lived, and then from Cherbourg to the US, March 5, 1924, aboard the Berengaria. Potoker composed movie scores from 1929–1935, among them ""Blonde Venus"" (1932) with Marlene Dietrich, ""The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu"" (1929), ""The Vagabond King"" (1930), ""Trailing the Killer"" (1932), and ""Hei Tiki"" (1935). He also trained piano students in theory and harmony. Potoker"
"Songs of Travel Songs of Travel is a song cycle of nine songs originally written for baritone voice composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams, with poems drawn from the Robert Louis Stevenson collection ""Songs of Travel and Other Verses"". A complete performance of the entire cycle lasts between 20 and 24 minutes. They were originally written for voice and piano. Vaughan Williams orchestrated the first, third, and eighth songs, and his assistant Roy Douglas later orchestrated the remaining songs using the same instrumentation. The orchestral version has often been recorded, but not always with Douglas acknowledged as its co-orchestrator. Notable performers"
"Alfred Newman (composer) Alfred Newman (March 17, 1901 – February 17, 1970) was an American composer, arranger, and conductor of film music. From his start as a music prodigy, he came to be regarded as a respected figure in the history of film music. He won nine Academy Awards and was nominated forty-three times. In a career spanning more than four decades, Newman composed the scores for over 200 motion pictures. Some of his most famous scores include ""Wuthering Heights"", ""The Hunchback of Notre Dame"", ""The Mark of Zorro"", ""How Green Was My Valley"", ""The Song of Bernadette"", ""Captain from"
"Gene: A guide in the Mojave desert. Valkyries: The main subject of the book. A group of warrior women. Valhalla: The leader of the valkyries. The Valkyries The Valkyries (; ) is a 1992 novel by Paulo Coelho. The book is written as a third-person narrative describing how Paulo and his wife embark on a 40 day journey through the Mojave Desert. There they meet the valkyries, a group of warrior women who travel the desert on motorcycles. At the beginning of the story, ""J"", Coelho's master in RAM, shows him a copy of the poem by Wilde that says"
"Memories And You!"" and ""Celebrate The Magic"" in Walt Disney World Magic Kingdom and ""Celebrate! Tokyo Disneyland"" in Tokyo Disneyland. John Debney John Cardon Debney (born August 18, 1956) is an American film composer and conductor. He received an Academy Award nomination for his score for Mel Gibson's ""The Passion of the Christ"" (2004). He also composed the score for ""Cutthroat Island"" (1995), which has been celebrated by music critics as a notable example of swashbuckling film music. The son of Disney Studios producer Louis Debney (""Zorro"", ""The Mickey Mouse Club""), John was born and raised in Glendale, California, nearby"
"the full in ""Die Walküre""; Holman numbers 36 such motifs that are introduced in the work. The well-known ""Valkyrie"" motif, used to introduce Brünnhilde in Act 2, forms the basis of the famous Ride of the Valkyries that opens Act 3. Wagner wrote the concert version of the Ride in 1862, for performance in concerts at Vienna and Leipzig. As with ""Das Rheingold"", many years elapsed between the completion of the ""Die Walküre"" score and its first performance. Seeing little chance of the ""Ring"" project coming to any immediate fruition, and in need of money, in August 1857 Wagner abandoned"
"The ""Annunciation of Death"" motif is the crucial point, where the two narratives (Wotan/Brünnhilde and Siegmund/Sieglinde) come together. Wagner chose the tonality of F♯ minor for this scene, eventually modulating to B minor in preparation for the Valkyries' entry in Act 3. The act opens with the famous sequence known as the ""Ride of the Valkyries"", formed by combining the Valkyries' own belligerent theme with Brünnhilde's war cry from act 2. The Ride has achieved lasting popularity as an orchestral concert piece outside the framework of the ""Ring"" cycle; according to Newman, in the orchestral version and sometimes within the"
"Hyde"", ""The Scarlet Pimpernel"", ""The Civil War"", and ""Bonnie & Clyde"" also received nominations for Outstanding Musical by the Outer Critics Circle. Frank Wildhorn Frank Wildhorn (born November 29, 1958) is an American composer known for both his musicals and popular songs. He is most known for his musical ""Jekyll & Hyde"", which ran four years on Broadway, and for writing the #1 International hit song ""Where Do Broken Hearts Go"" for Whitney Houston. Wildhorn was born in Harlem and spent his childhood in Queens before moving to Hollywood, Florida at age 14. Soon after he taught himself how to"
"Howard Shore Howard Leslie Shore (born October 18, 1946) is a Canadian composer who is notable for his film scores. He has composed the scores for over 80 films, most notably the scores for ""The Lord of the Rings"" and ""The Hobbit"" film trilogies. He won three Academy Awards for his work on the first trilogy, with one being for the original song ""Into the West"", an award he shared with Eurythmics lead vocalist Annie Lennox and writer/producer Fran Walsh, who wrote the lyrics. He is also a consistent collaborator with director David Cronenberg, having scored all but one of"
"singing the Catalan song ""Les Flors de Maig"" (""The Flowers of May""). The whole arch over the front of the stage was sculpted by Dídac Masana and Pablo Gargallo. On the right side is depicted the ride of the valkyries in Wagner's opera ""Die Walküre"" (""The Valkyries""), an opera in which the female choir sings with great musical power. Under the valkyries and among two Doric columns—symbol of classical art—is a bust of Beethoven that many think was placed there in honor of the beautiful choral composition in Beethoven's ""Ninth Symphony"" known as the ""Ode to Joy"". So, the arch"
"The Black Rider The Black Rider: The Casting of the Magic Bullets is a self-billed ""musical fable"" in the avant-garde tradition created through the collaboration of theatre director Robert Wilson, musician Tom Waits, and writer William S. Burroughs. Wilson, in the original production, was largely responsible for the design and direction. Burroughs wrote the book, while Waits wrote the music and most of the lyrics. The project began in about 1988 when Wilson approached Waits. The story is based on a German folktale called ""Der Freischütz"", which had previously been made into an opera by Carl Maria von Weber. It"
"Lior Rosner Lior Rosner is a film, TV and classical music composer, conductor, and theme branding expert who created the theme for The Ellen DeGeneres Show and whose accolades include the International Film Music Critics Association nominee for “They’ll Remember You” an orchestral accompanied choral showpiece for the end titles from the movie Valkyrie. A composition and theory graduate from the Jerusalem Academy of Music And Dance, Rosner moved from Israel to Los Angeles and studied graduate music at UCLA, and conducting with a professor from the USC Thornton School of Music. In addition to his music scoring career, Rosner"
"""Walkürenritt"" (oil painting) by H. Hendrich, ""Walkürenritt"" (painting) by F. Leeke, ""Einherier"" (painting, from around 1900), by K. Dielitz, ""The Ride of the Valkyries"" (painting, from around 1900) by J. C. Dollman, ""Valkyrie"" (statue, 1910) and ""Walhalla-freeze"" (located in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, 1886–87), ""Walkyrien"" (print, 1915) by A. Kolb, and ""Valkyrier"" (drawing, 1925) by E. Hansen. Valkyrie In Norse mythology, a valkyrie (; from Old Norse ""chooser of the slain"") is one of a host of female figures who choose those who may die in battle and those who may live. Selecting among half of those who die"
"Frank Wildhorn Frank Wildhorn (born November 29, 1958) is an American composer known for both his musicals and popular songs. He is most known for his musical ""Jekyll & Hyde"", which ran four years on Broadway, and for writing the #1 International hit song ""Where Do Broken Hearts Go"" for Whitney Houston. Wildhorn was born in Harlem and spent his childhood in Queens before moving to Hollywood, Florida at age 14. Soon after he taught himself how to play the piano, Wildhorn realized he wanted to compose music. During high school, he played in and wrote for various bands, ranging"
"The Elephant Ride ""The Elephant Ride"" is a song by the British new wave band Squeeze. It was written by Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook, and it appeared on their 1982 album ""Sweets from a Stranger"". Glenn Tilbrook said, ""This is one of my favorite songs. It's beautiful and very much influenced by The Beach Boys in its arrangement, if not the tune. I'd been listening to ""Pet Sounds"" an awful lot at the time and this was one of the songs where rather than oppose the mood of the lyric, I tried to reflect it."" Chris Difford said, ""This"
"Bohemian Rhapsody ""Bohemian Rhapsody"" is a song by the British rock band Queen. It was written by Freddie Mercury for the band's 1975 album ""A Night at the Opera"". It is a six-minute suite, consisting of several sections without a chorus: an intro, a ballad segment, an operatic passage, a hard rock part and a reflective coda. The song is a more accessible take on the 1970s progressive rock genre. When it was released as a single, ""Bohemian Rhapsody"" became a commercial success, staying at the top of the UK Singles Chart for nine weeks and selling more than a"
"of the Valkyries"" by Richard Wagner, ""The Swan of Tuonela"" by Jean Sibelius, ""Invitation to the Dance"" by Carl Maria von Weber, the Polka and Fugue from ""Schwanda the Bagpiper"" by Jaromír Weinberger and ""Flight of the Bumblebee"" by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, which was later adapted into the ""Bumble Boogie"" segment in ""Melody Time"" (1948). The film's disappointing initial box office performance and the USA's entry into World War II brought an end to these plans. Deems Taylor prepared introductions for ""The Firebird"" by Stravinsky, ""La Mer"" by Claude Debussy, ""Adventures in a Perambulator"" by John Alden Carpenter, ""Don Quixote"" by"
"3 – and commercial brands: Mercedes Benz, Campari and Hitachi. Rosner lives and works in Los Angeles, California. Lior Rosner Lior Rosner is a film, TV and classical music composer, conductor, and theme branding expert who created the theme for The Ellen DeGeneres Show and whose accolades include the International Film Music Critics Association nominee for “They’ll Remember You” an orchestral accompanied choral showpiece for the end titles from the movie Valkyrie. A composition and theory graduate from the Jerusalem Academy of Music And Dance, Rosner moved from Israel to Los Angeles and studied graduate music at UCLA, and conducting"
"Ivor Atkins Sir Ivor Algernon Atkins (29 November 1869 – 26 November 1953) was the choirmaster and organist at Worcester Cathedral from 1897 to 1950. He is well known for editing Allegri's ""Miserere"" with the famous top-C part for the treble. He is also well known for ""The Three Kings"", an arrangement of a song by Peter Cornelius as a choral work for Epiphany. Born into a Welsh musical family at Llandaff, Atkins graduated with a bachelor of music degree from The Queen's College, Oxford in 1892, and subsequently obtained a Doctorate in Music (Oxford). He was assistant organist of"
"in the single player mode. If the player exceeds the boundaries of the map, a submarine emerges and fires a heat-seeking missile against the player. The game soundtrack consists exclusively of public domain music such as Richard Wagner's ""Ride of the Valkyries"" when using the helicopter (in homage to ""Apocalypse Now""), Flight of the Bumblebee when driving the jeep, Holst's Mars from The Planets when driving the tank or the ""William Tell Overture"" by Gioacchino Rossini when riding with the flag. When driving in the Armored Support Vehicle, Edvard Grieg's ""In the Hall of the Mountain King"" plays. During the"
"synthesis of poetry and music is achieved without any notable sacrifice in musical expression"". The modern view is that, of the ""Ring"" operas, ""Die Walküre"" is both the most approachable and the one that can most successfully be performed in extracts. Die Walküre ' (The Valkyrie""""'), WWV 86B is the second of the four music dramas that constitute Richard Wagner's ""Der Ring des Nibelungen,"" (English: ""The Ring of the Nibelung""). It was performed, as a single opera, at the National Theatre Munich on 26 June 1870, and received its first performance as part of the ""Ring"" cycle at the Bayreuth"