Also looking back at my poll I also noticed that most of the foreign composers recieved less votes, probably due to the fact that most of the music they composed are for soundtracks of movies released outside the US (although "Ponyo by the Cliff and Sea" and "The Painted Veil" were both released here).
In further exploring the impact of musical soundtracks and pieces chosen to accompany various films, I decided to try playing piece that has been in many movies before ("Lorenzo's Oil", etc) and that our orchestra actually played two years before: Barber's "Adagio". If one has never heard about it before one should definitely listen to it, especially the original orchestral arrangement- so chilling and breathtaking at the climax -its such an interesting piece because of the amount of energy is vested into to building up the tension, releasing, and repeat building up suspense the final towering climax! I've love it if I could play it as well on the piano, but for now I'm still struggling with locating chords >_<"
Last time I also mentioned that one of my favorite film soundtracks is "Oogway ascends" in the movie "Kung fu Panda" (lol who would have thought?) and today, while I was searching for music to add to my playlist (located above the blog posts) I found another piece titled "Sacred pool of tears" that's also part of "Kung fu Panda"'s soundtrack. While I was listening to it I suddenly realized that parts of it was composed of the same melody (rhythm and notes and a different major) as the one played by the eruhu in "Oogway Ascends"- just like how the score of "Up" was created by using the same melody but varying it in different major and minor keys to create a different atmosphere depending on the film scene! :D
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