I was watching Dr. Zhivago last night. There’s a really cool theme (no, not lara’s theme) that plays during the scene where Yuri, Tonya, the boy and the father take the carriage from the train station in Yuriatin to the house (eventually the cottage) in the country. I think I heard the band Renaissance play it which leads me to think it might be from Sheherazade by Rimsky-Korsakov or something from another Russian composer. I know Maurice Jarre did the score but I think the melody is an old one. Does anyone know what I’m talking about?
I found a clip of the melody http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000033J9/qid=1018218104/sr=8-7/ref=sr_8_71_7/002-0460714-6232819
It’s #24 Tonya and Yuri arrive at Varykino.
Where is this theme originally from? Thanks!
Oh, my FAVORITE movie! I just LOVE Omar Sharif!
Hang on, I have the soundtrack…
(BTW, if you listen to the overture at the beginning, you CAN hear “God Save the Tsar”…)
All I can hear is from the beginning Overture. The liner notes don’t seem to have anything on whether or not it comes from old Russian folk melodies (a big possibility), however, I don’t think it’s from Sheherazade-another favorite of mine…
Oh wait, here-it says here in the part written by Jarre himself, they didn’t use any type of Russian folk music, and the only traditional piece is the Russian Orthodox hymns used in the beginning at the grave of Yuri’s mother.
Sorry!
Perhaps it just sounds a lot like it…