Just thought some of you may wish to hear that marvellous piece of music played out as Peter Brothers flew ML407.
I also defy anyone not to get emotional just hearing the music.
The piece is entitled: “The Humming Chorus” from Puccini’s opera Madame Butterfly.
Track 15 on the following link will give you a snippet of the 3.05min piece.
http://www.iclassics.com/iclassics/album.jsp?selectionId=10921
Contact me via PM if 59secs is not enough for you.
By: DazDaMan - 6th February 2004 at 15:47
They do?? :confused:
By: BlueRobin - 6th February 2004 at 15:45
By sheer co-incidence Flying Lady and Spitfire Ace, which both feature ML407 and were made 20 years apart, use Mercury from Holst’s Planet Suite.
(thanks again Dezzy)
By: philo - 5th February 2004 at 13:47
Clearly some music education required on this forum, whilst its a nice piece its not Puccinis best effort and whats more whilst its an emmotional piece it was probably not the best choice for the occasion.In the opera Madame Butterfly gets jilted by her American naval officer lover and this tune is hummed by her maids on realising that she will not be reunited with her dream. No so in Pete Brothers tale, he was reunited with his lover. As has been said elsewhere this was one of the most emmotional moments on TV ever. My wife called me a ” silly old thing” and said ” fancy getting all upset about someone flying an aeroplane”. It took me a while to explain, I still don’t think she understands.
As someone else said the older you get the more emmotional you become, however in my case I can remember shedding a tear whilst salluting the memorial during rememberance day parades whilst doing TA duty and getting a rollocking for it.
When my 6 year old daughter laid the poppy wreath on behalf on her Brownies at the service for the first time 2 years ago, well I was besides myself.
There is nothing wrong with it, we must remember them.
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February 4, 2004 at 5:19 pm