Sweetpea
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Posted: Nov. 11 2007, 22:59 |
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Music of the Spheres, to me, is clearly Oldfield through and through, but that doesn't stop me from delighting in passages that briefly bring to mind other classical composers.
"Aurora": Mendelssohn - for some reason this makes me think of "Midsummer Night's Dream". Maybe because I imagine it as a sort of 'Anthem of the Fairies'?
"The Other Side": Borodin - there's a bit of Eastern exoticism, here, I think.
"Musica Universalis": Dvorak - specifically in regard to his American inspired pieces. It sounds somewhat native/aboriginal to me.
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"I'm no physicist, but technically couldn't Mike both be with the horse and be flying through space at the same time? (On account of the earth's orbit around the Sun and all that). So it seems he never had to make the choice after all. I bet he's kicking himself now." - clotty
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], but much of MotS sounds to me very like Jenkins/Adiemus. There are certainly various references to Smetana, Siibelius and Holst throughout, but those guys have been present in Mike's music since... ahem... 1973. 