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