DARK SHADOWS FORUMS
General Discussions => Current Talk Archive => Current Talk '24 I => Current Talk '14 I => Topic started by: Cousin_Barnabas on March 11, 2014, 03:43:02 AM
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I just watched the second episode, and I was wondering if the piece Elizabeth began to play on the piano in the final scene was an actual musical composition or just a bit of an improvisation. If it's a composition, can anyone identify it? Any help would be greatly appreciated. It definitely intrigues me.
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Rather than the actual answer, how about a clue. Think Barry Manilow's 1975 hit "Could It Be Magic." [snow_smiley]
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MB, you are amazing! Chopin's Prelude in C Minor! Simply wonderful. I have been wondering about this for a long time. Thanks for the mysterious answer.
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LOL. I think Carolyn plays some Chopin at one point in a 1966 or 1967 episode but the details are eluding what's left of my memory.
I've wondered if Liz's playing of Chopin is a kind of remnant of Art Wallace's earlier teleplay THE HOUSE, in which if I remember correctly the Liz character is a village piano teacher--it's been said that Art Wallace's original DS treatment owed something to THE HOUSE, but I've never seen a copy of the teleplay (either the script or a video recording).
G.
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MB is correct! And it's Melanie, not Carolyn, who a long time from now will play part of Chopin's Ballade no. 4 in F minor.
I've always enjoyed all the music and portraits on the show.
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Thanks, Dark Lady. If I remember correctly there's a wonderful long closeup of Grayson as a concerned Aunt Julia while the music plays... I love looking at Grayson by Chopin...
G.
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And that answers my other question. Thanks, DarkLady!
I obviously need to listen to more Chopin!
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I think Chopin's Nocturnes have very much a brooding, DS-suggestive atmosphere. One of the Nocturnes shows up in the classic film DRACULA'S DAUGHTER (1936) so the associations between this music and understated Gothic horror goes back a ways.
G.
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One can never listen to too much Chopin! If you can still find them, Arthur Rubenstein's recordings were second to none (and still are, IMHO).