Joel Hill writes:

>On a related topic, in the book Bid Time Return, which was turned into the
>movie Somewhere in Time, the protagonists' favorite piece of music was the
>Mahler 10th as I recall.
>
>In the movie, it was changed to Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme by
>Paganini, and the 18th variation was used on the soundtrack. ...

The use of this music creates something of a paradox, since the tune is
introduced by a music box in the very early 1900s, yet the music wasn't
composed until 1934.  My wife loves the single variation featured in the
movie; when presented with the entire work, she wonders why the rest of
it isn't as "beautiful".

Mark
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