Before everything kicked off on Saturday morning they did a bit of a warmup, and we got two pieces of John Williams - the 1984 Olympics theme, and some stuff from Return of the Jedi. And then off it went.
Eight of my votes got up:
86 - Babe (yet they still only played the Saint-Saëns bits, not his original stuff)
77 - Harry Potter
76 - Jurassic Park
67 - Indiana Jones
64 - The Man From Snowy River
26 - Saint-Saëns Symphony #3 (Organ Symphony)
9 - Messiah / Hallelujah Chorus
1 - Beethoven's 9th. I picked this is as the winner even before it started.
My two votes that didn't:
ET - disappointing because this is magical music. They did play this though as the first "runner up" literally straight after everything finished so that was pretty cool.
Superman - I probably should have gone with something else like Finlandia instead, but there you go.
Actually, annoyingly, they didn't have Titanic by James Horner even as an option to vote for, if they had maybe Superman would have gone to that.
Other stuff that I thought was cool:
95 - Beethoven's 5th (bit more angry than feel good but whatevs)
92 - The Sound of Music (I didn't even think to vote musicals)
61 - Pomp and Circumstance
60 - Gladiator
57 - Bolero
54 - Fanfare for the Common Man
46 - Zorba the Greek
45 - Finlandia
43 - 1812 Overture
39 - Peer Gynt the Hall of the Mountain King
35 - Beethoven's 7th
28 - It's a Big Ad
22 - Star Wars
18 - The Nutcracker
13 - Zadok the Priest
5 - Rhapsody in Blue
2 - The Planets
Other runner up stuff I thought was cool:
William Tell Overture
The Princess Bride
A good fun weekend of all the feels :)
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