I think the music in that video is actually Die Moldau, but it DOES sound very similar to Simon and Garfunkel's Bright Eyes, which is the intro to Watership Down. I used to watch the tv series with my mom and my sister when it aired here :)
(For anyone who lacks a point of reference, the video clip is here.)
It actually doesn’t remind me of “Bright Eyes,” but of one of the other instrumental interludes from Watership Down instead. Your assessment of the music is totally different from the people who said they think it’s Tchaikovsky. Also, I never knew they made a television series of Watership Down after the film came out! I’m talking quite solidly about the 1978 film, which was on VHS by the time I was a toddler. I seriously don’t think my mom knew what she was getting into when she let me pick that and The Last Unicorn as my first two video rentals at the age of 3. Weirdly, I don’t remember those giving me nightmares. I got to the point that those were the only films I wanted to watch up till I was about six, and they’re still two of my favorites (as are the novels on which they’re based).
I’m going to sit down and listen to all three possible sources this weekend, because now I’m really freaking curious where that clip actually comes from! This is something I normally would’ve researched by now, but I’ve been swamped. And I admit the guessing-game is amusing. Someone in the sea of notes on that post probably has a definite answer by now.
beysdameron said: Ok so I took a classical music semester in college and while it sounds very much like Smetana’s Moldau, this is the bit in the main famous Swan Lake theme JUST BEFORE the loud stuff comes in. I obviously can’t sing it in the response but you’ll know it the second you hear it.
