Help from all you music experts, please

[Cheyenne]

My trivia question is about the "Walt Disney World Resort Official Album" copyright 2000.

Song #15 is "Impressions de France." It is a combination of different pieces of music put together into one longer piece. It is the LAST 2 1/2 minutes of the piece that I am interested in where the orchestra is joined by what sounds like a pipe organ in a large cathedral. Does anyone know what piece of music this comes from? I'd like to find it in its original form.

The cd jacket says choices of composers for the piece are:

Debussy (it isn't that one)/Saint-Saens
/Boieldieu/Ravel/Offenbach/Dukas/Satie/Baker.

If it helps any, this is the music played in the French pavilion of the EPCOT world showcase.

 

[alexander tzara]

It doesn't sound like Eric Satie. He's most well known for his melancholy piano pieces, although he did have some orchestral compositions, so I wouldn't rule it out. But, whether or not you find the music you're looking for, you should try to get your hands on Satie's 'Gnossiennes' and "Gymnopedies' - really beautiful pieces of piano music which you'll probably recognise from films or tv shows (usually when someone dies or goes mad - LOL). You can usually get them both on the same album.

Since we're getting all classical, might I also interest you in 'Harmonium' by modern American composer, John Adam, I wonder? Choral music based around poems by John Donne and Emily Dickinson

 

[Cheyenne]

Thanks for the suggestions. I think the reason I like the music I'm looking for is besides being majestic, it is a pipe organ. I LOVE big pipe organs in cathedrals. Hearing one with an orchestra is even better.

From your description, I think I can pick out the section now that is from Satie. Thanks!

 

[lavender]

 

[alexander tzara]

There's an excellent melancholy organ piece called 'Adagio in G Minor, for Organ and Strings' by Albinoni. Doesn't really help you with your search but you'll probably like it.

 

[Cheyenne]

Cheyenne -

That description doesn't give me much to work with, but alexander tzara is correct, it doesn't sound like Satie. It also doesn't sound much like Saint Seans because you make it sound as if the pipe organ almost comes blaring in on the piece.

I'm not sure, but doesn't Offenbach do amazing work on the organ? I think that might be your best bet.

Thanks. It is more like the orchestra is in the lead with the melody at first with the pipe organ playing back up. Then the organ takes over the melody with the entire orchestra as backup. The ending is loud, with kettle drums, etc. Majestic is the most accurate adjective I can think of. It might even be based on a hymn, but I'm not sure.

I don't think you can get the cd anywhere but in Disney World so it is hard to find people who have heard the piece I'm talking about . I thought I'd try here before I write directly to Disney to see if I can find someone there with the answer.

 

[lavender]

 

[Dillinger]

I agree that its highly unlikely to be Satie. And not Debussy or Ravel either. Also not very likely to be Adrien Boieldieu. Buddy Baker is a contemporary film composer - so also probably not him.

Paul A. Dukas and Camille Saint-Saens (Carnival of the Animals) are not out of the question BUT...

If its Jacques Offenbach then perhaps you're thinking of "Gaite Parisienne"

 

[Cheyenne]

If its Jacques Offenbach then perhaps you're thinking of "Gaite Parisienne"

I've been searching on Offenbach since Lavy made the guess and I've seen that one mentioned several times, just trying to find a clip of it to listen to.

Unfortunately, it only lists composers, not the titles to choose from. That would have narrowed the search a bit!

*off to find Gaite Parisienne*

 

[Cheyenne]

I agree that its highly unlikely to be Satie. And not Debussy or Ravel either. Also not very likely to be Adrien Boieldieu. Buddy Baker is a contemporary film composer - so also probably not him.

Paul A. Dukas and Camille Saint-Saens (Carnival of the Animals) are not out of the question BUT...

If its Jacques Offenbach then perhaps you're thinking of "Gaite Parisienne"

Damn. Gaite Parisienne IS part of the music in the piece, I recognize it. But it ISN'T the part I was looking for. No organ in it at all, just orchestra.

I think the Carnival of the Animals is part of it, too.

Maybe Dukas? I'll try him next.

 

[Cheyenne]

Paul A. Dukas and Camille Saint-Saens (Carnival of the Animals) are not out of the question BUT...

Getting closer! It is Dukas-
http://www.r-vcr.com/~pastmasters/catalog/PM004.htm

Fanfare to precede the ballet "La Peri" is definitely the beginning but it doesn't have the orhestra/organ part to it... I wonder it THAT part is Satie? Off to continue my search for the rest of it...

 

[Cheyenne]

ARRRGGGHH!

Impressions de France
Musical Selections


Concerto for Harp and Orchestra by Francois-Adrien Boieldieu

Claire de Lune (orchestral arrangment) by Claude Debussy

Nocturne No 1 (Nuages) and Nocturne No 3 (Sirenes) by Claude Debussy

Syrinx Solo for Flute by Claude Debussy

Le Peri Fanfare (played twice) by Paul A. Dukas

Gaite Parisienne (played thrice) by Jacques Offenbach

Daphnis et Chloe Suite #2 (Daybreak section) by Maurice Ravel

Aquarium from Carnival of the Animals (played twice) by Camille Saint-Saens

Aquarium from Carnival of the Animals Solo for Flute by Camille Saint-Saens

Finale from Carnival of the Animals by Camille Saint-Saens

Trois Gymnopedies #1 by Erik Satie orchestrated by Debussy

Buddy Baker contributed some original material for Impressions de France. He also arranged the film score and conducted the London Symphony Orchestra in the recording of the score.

http://www.wdwig.com/e_fran2.htm

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Getting closer. It is in there somewhere!

 

[Dillinger]

It might be the Finale from the Carnival of the Animals you're looking for.

 

[Cheyenne]

It might be the Finale from the Carnival of the Animals you're looking for.

Nope, that is included earlier in the piece, but isn't the part I'm looking for. The part I'm looking for has pipe organ music with the orchestra and is much slower in tempo.

*still looking*