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Re: Music Used In Films
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Jane Erb <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 27 Dec 2007 12:24:55 -0800
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Deryk Barker points out:

> ... that part of Rachmaninov's First Symphony used to be
>used as the theme music to the BBC's current affairs programme
>Panorama.

I am sure you are aware that the theme music for BBC's Third Programme,
as BBC3 was known when it first went on the air, was the March from Dag
Wiren's Serenade for Strings?  I've always wondered why they chose not
to use music by a native composer.

Jane Erb

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