This one’s keeping me up at night! Under the main titles to “Being There,” Chance wakes up and turns the TV set on to a symphony orchestra playing the opening movement of a very famous classical piece. Everyone knows this music; it’s been featured in other movies and I know I know it, but cannot come up with it. It’s not mentioned in the closing credits; there’s no soundtrack for the movie, and exhaustive web searches and queries of classical music lovers among family and friends have yielded nothing. Title and composer anyone?
Always worth searching newsgroups as well as the web - according to Google Groups it’s Schubert’s Unfinished Symphony.
Thank you Usram; you’re right. If you are a fan of this movie, you know that everything Chance watches on TV has a connection to his character or the plot. Using Schubert’s 8th (The Unfinished) Symphony makes sense because Chance is an “unfinished” person. Thanks again.
It’s Schubert’s 8th symphony.
Did he finish it since the original answer?
Odd - Schubert isn’t mentioned here: Being There (1979) - Soundtracks - IMDb
I feel like a time traveler who has gone back 18 years to 2003 to deliver technology from the future in 2021. I used something you won’t see for 5 years in a thing called the “App Store” it’s a technology that uses… well never mind the details. It’s a technology that identifies music and it confirmed it is “schubert 8th unfinished symphony”
Anyways not much point in me telling you anything else about the future. You won’t believe anything I say after I tell you about the 2016 election, but trust me Bush actually wins in 04 if you could stop that it would be great
Anyhoo I just heard The Great Kazoo say “Hello Dumb Dumb” time for me to say goodbye and NOT NOW KAZOOOOOOOOoooooooooo(poof)
It’s now 2021, and that damn symphony is still unfinished (at least by Schubert).
It’s been finished by various other people though.
All together now:
This is the symphony -
The symphony that Schubert never