Pamela McElwain-Brown ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>Interesting point; the first few notes definitely qualify.  The WC theme
>seems more to me like ersatz Rachy; yet as a child I was enchanted, and
>even now, though I acknowledge the entire piece is over-written and showy
>and that's probably why it has not endured in terms of public interest,
>it still holds a special magic.:-)

I still find myself welcoming it whenever it is played on the radio.  It
is indeed showy- and yet it has a feeling of menace and danger about it
as well, appropriate to a WW2 movie.  The title of the movie, either in
England or the USA, was "Suicide Squadron", I seem to recall.  Can anybody
confirm or debunk that claim?

Bernard Chasan