Steven Schwartz wrote:

>Ray Bayles:
>
>>The main use of Liszt's Les Preludes was for various background situations
>>for the radio version of the Lone Ranger.  ...
>
>It was also usually the "chapter-end" music (the Wagnerian "entrance of the
>Gods into Valhalla" part) of the serial "Flash Gordon," with Larry "Buster"
>Crabbe.

And, so far, nobody seems to have mentioned that it was also used as
inspirational background music in the Japanese film *Tampopo* about one
man's search for the perfect noodle restaurant.

Walter Meyer