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Aaron Rabushka <[log in to unmask]>

>I'd always thought that the filming of Bolero (the one with the LA
>Philharmonic and Mehta) should have started by showing the drummer
>rather than the flautist counting measures.

The actually _is_ a Bolero narrative film (no: _not_ 10) which is told
from the point of the view of the snare-drummer.  I'm pretty certain the
title actually is _Bolero_; & that the film was shot in France (probaly on
35mm if the print i saw was any guide) in the 1980s., it shows the drummer
flirting with a pretty percussionist & generally does everything in his
power to avoid falling down dead bored while playing the piece.

(I think it's probably safe to assume that the person who made this film
_wasn't_ a snare-drummist who had actually had the terror of playing this
piece)

On the downside (& unlike Bozzetto's Evolutionary Fantasy from _Allegro
non Troppo_, which uses the Bolero to chart the devolution of life from a
Coke bottle left behind by a visiting astronaut), the film uses an edited
(roughly 8m) version of the score. Perhaps they could come up with enough
comic business to fill a 15m timeslot....

All the best,

Robert Clements <[log in to unmask]>
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