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Len Fehskens <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 2 Apr 1999 10:20:39 -0500
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Alden Chodash asks:

>Was that Handel's Fireworks Music that I heard and
>if so, isn't that an anachronism?

The entire movie is (quite deliberately) riddled with anachronisms, so this
would be "in character", as it were...

Much of the soundtrack is New Agey watered down Mahlerish washes of strings
(what synthesizer sound designers call a "pad").

len.

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