This has been driving me nuts for about a year and a half.
If you have seen the documentary ‘Century of Warfare’, then you’ve watched (before the credits) that airplane fly in low over the coast and drop what looks like a barrel onto the water, which bounces once… twice… and spinning backwards it lands perfectly behind some kind of beach head bunker. All the while the brass is playing a kind of mocking fanfare. It sounds like majesty getting its full due, yet like something that is nothing to be proud about at all. Kind of like, ‘Congratulations, you’re Satan!’ This brass really got under my skin and I sure would like to know who composed the piece so I can listen to the whole thing.
The piece kind of reminds me of Dvorak’s ‘New World Symphony’- for a short time I thought that was actually it, and now I would bet money it influenced the piece in question. It does seem like a specifically WWII-era piece- I could swear I have heard it in the background of WWII video games, and on the radio at the art store- it isn’t so obscure I don’t think.
A side question here- I have a little MP3 clip recording of what I am talking about. Tell me how to turn that into a web page and I’ll post a link for you to listen to. That will probably help, no? Though honestly I won’t be surprised if even the finest minds of the 'dope can’t answer this one. Thanks anyway.
