The one with all the coronets. TV uses it to convey ‘stuffy, uppercrust British people’.
I can’t remember offhand. But a similar piece of coronet-full Baroque music was used for William Buckley’s TV show, and that one was a movement from one of Bach’s “Brandenburg Concertos”.
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And while we’re at it, my favorite classical music/TV intro is “March of the Nobles” by Rimsky-Korsakov, which was used by the public television political roundtable show Inside Washington.
Remember back in the '60s the Nightly News used to close with the second movement of Beethoven’s Ninth? Even as a kid I thought that music kicked some upper-crust ass. (Of course my dad listened to a lot of classical music; I may have been predisposed to like it.)
It’s funny how I always associated it with the British titled class and royalty but it’s actually a French composition. I wonder if the French have a problem with that.
Because the French really care about what I think.
It’s one of my favorite “fanfares”, right up there with the Fanfare for the Common Man, the Olympic Fanfare by John Williams, and the opening fanfare from Also Sprach Zarathustra. Damn, if I could think of about 15 more, I could burn a whole CD of great fanfares.
That was the opening theme, too.
Watch “Countdown with Keith Obermann” any night to see how he pays tribute to it. 