So this year's Classic 100 was "Music You Can't Live Without".
Which was surprisingly tough to narrow down to ten choices! There's so much good stuff. John Williams doesn't help of course, taking up like half of it, leaving me very few other choices. In the end I went with John Williams for Harry Potter, Jurassic Park, Indiana Jones and Star Wars, James Horner's Titanic, Saint Saens' Organ Symphony, the Hallelujah Chorus and Beethoven's 9th.
But what to pick for the last two. More John Williams? Some Hans Zimmer? Beethoven's 5th? Zadok the Priest? Prince of Denmark? Finlandia? The Planets? Pomp and Circumstance? Rhapsody in Blue? Wedding Day at Troldhaugen? (And plenty more I thought of in the days after I voted). I even went down a rabbit hole of Bolero, watching Torvill and Dean's routine at the 1984 Winter Olympics, something I probably haven't actually even seen since 1984!
In the end I put in Beethoven's 5th and Finlandia (the latter at Stu's suggestion).
So yesterday and today it was all on. We did have to go out yesterday morning so missed Pomp and Circumstance and Schindler's List (heard a bit of that in the car). Zadok the Priest was 54, Bolero was 34, the 1812 Overture was 42.
This morning between 7 and 9am they were clearly playing stuff that didn't quite make the top 100 - things like Ave Maria, Jurassic Park, Zorba the Greek, Wedding Day at Troldhaugen.
Then into it all day today. Finlandia was 40, Beethoven's 5th was 39 and Star Wars (just the main titles) was 37. Rhapsody in Blue was 29, then Saint Saens was at 20, unfortuantely we had Stu and Immy over so I couldn't crank it. Jupiter was 12, the Hallelujah Chorus was 6 and Beethoven's 9th was number 2.
So there you go. Six of my things got up, with one in the reserve list. It was certainly distracting too, I really didn't get much done this weekend!
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