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[music-interpretation-review]

Movie Music Tournament Round 1

Composers have a huge responsibility when they're hired to write music for movies. They need to set the right tone for not only the scene itself, but for the whole arc of the movie's storyline. Submitters sent in their favorite choices for movie music that set the tone in this way, and now you get to vote for the best one!

Which track is better?

The Incredibles: Life's Incredible Again

Fiddler on the Roof: Finale

Voting ended onApr 28

The Incredibles is a 2004 Disney/Pixar joint production film, featuring the story of the changing times during a period where society turns against the superheroes that live among them, causing heroes Bob & Helen Parr to be forced to hide their status as "supers" and instruct their young children to do their best not to appear to be exceptional. However, when a face from their past reappears with devious machinations, everything changes.

The score for this movie was written by Michael Giacchino.

Fiddler on the Roof is a 1971 filmed version of the 1964 stage musical by the same name, which itself is based on Tevye and His Daughters by Sholem Aleichem. The storyline centers on Tevye, a poor Jewish milkman in early 20th-century Imperial Russia who is faced with the challenge of marrying off his five daughters amidst the growing tension in his shtetl.

With music originally by Jerry Bock, the score was adapted to film by John Williams.

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MR. WONDERFUL ORIGINAL 1954 CAST RECORDING. DECCA RECORDS.

[doyouknowthismusical]

Do you know Fiddler on the Roof (1964) ?

Yes, I’ve been in it

Yes, I’ve seen it

Yes, I’ve listened to it

No, but I’ve heard of it

No, never heard of it

Voting ended onNov 19, 2023

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Favorite musical theater composer who didn't/doesn't do lyrics?

Alan Menken

Robert Lopez

Jeanine Tesori

Richard Rodgers

Harvey Schmidt

George Gershwin

Kurt Weill

Jerome Kern

Jerry Bock

John Kander

Leonard Bernstein

Cy Coleman

Voting ended onOct 15, 2023

Leave anyone else you love in the tags! This list is specifically for composers who are not composer-lyricists!

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A post to mark the death of Chaim Topol. Known for his portrayal of Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof, he player the role on stage for over 50 years and also in the 1971 film. Here from the film is “If I Were a Rich Man”. _________________________ If I Were a Rich Man Songwriter: Sheldon Harnick and Jerry Bock

If I were a rich man Ya ba dibba dibba dibba dibba dibba dibba dum All day long, I'd biddy biddy bum If I were a wealthy man I wouldn't have to work hard Ya ba dibba dibba dibba dibba dibba dibba dum If I were a biddy biddy rich yidle-diddle-didle-didle man

I'd build a big, tall house with rooms by the dozen Right in the middle of the town A fine tin roof with real wooden floors below There would be one long staircase just going up And one even longer coming down And one more leading nowhere, just for show

I'd fill my yard with chicks and turkeys and geese and ducks For the town to see and hear Squawking just as noisily as they can And each loud of the"gee", be it "gow", be it "geh", be it "guh" Would land like a trumpet on the ear As if to say, "Here lives a wealthy man"

If I were a rich man Ya ba dibba dibba dibba dibba dibba dibba dum All day long, I'd biddy biddy bum If I were a wealthy man I wouldn't have to work hard Ya ba dibba dibba dibba dibba dibba dibba dum If I were a biddy biddy rich yidle-diddle-didle-didle man

I see my wife, my Goldie, looking like a rich man's wife With a proper double-chin Supervising meals to her heart's delight I see her putting on airs and strutting like a peacock Oy, what a happy mood she's in Screaming at the servants, day and night

The most important men in town would come to fawn on me! They would ask me to advise them like a Solomon the Wise "If you please, Reb Tevye..." "Pardon me, Reb Tevye..." Posing problems that would cross a rabbi's eyes! And it won't make one bit of difference if I answer right or wrong When you're rich, they think you really know!

If I were rich, I'd have the time that I lack to sit in the synagogue and pray And maybe have a seat by the Eastern wall And I'd discuss the holy books with the learned men, several hours every day And that would be the sweetest thing of all

If I were a rich man Ya ba dibba dibba dibba dibba dibba dibba dum All day long, I'd biddy biddy bum If I were a wealthy man I wouldn't have to work hard Ya ba dibba dibba dibba dibba dibba dibba dum

Lord, who made the lion and the lamb You decreed I should be what I am Would it spoil some vast eternal plan If I were a wealthy man?

[unwelcome-ephestion]

Lots of actors wanted the role of Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof - Frank Sinatra, Walter Matthau, Danny Kaye - but the pressure was on for director Norman Jewison to hire Zero Mostel for the film, the actor who had originated the role in the Broadway production. Jewison felt that Mostel's fame and personality would overwhelm the character and so gave the role to the comparatively unknown Topol, who had played the role onstage in Israel and London, learning the role phonetically before he was fluent in English.

There's no doubt that Topol gives a note perfect performance in this film. What is perhaps surprising is that he is only in his 30s here! Lots of work went on his physicality, but also on his make up and hair. Legend has it that hair and make up used to pluck grey hairs from Norman Jewison's beard and add them to Topol's eyebrows!