15 Jul
2025
15 Jul
'25
11:55 a.m.
Fons Adriaensen <fons(a)linuxaudio.org> writes:
On Tue, Jul 15, 2025 at 08:38:51AM +0100, Will Godfrey
wrote:
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
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'.