Karl Miller responds to Mary Esterheld:

>>> I know that parts of Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 3 ...
>>> and also Rachmaninoff Symphony No. 2 were used as background
>>> music in at least one movie (each work in a different movie -
>>> not in the same one). Can anyone tell me which movies?
>
> The more I thought about this the more I wondered if the Rachmaninoff
> reference was not about the use of the 18th of the Paganini Variations
> as used in "Somewhere in Time?"

If you are going THERE (to that piece of music, I mean), then I can
identify that movie for you...  it was played in the movie "The Story
of Three Loves".

That music was responsible for my cutting Junior High School to sit
through continuous performances of the dreadful movie till I could hear
the melody in my head, identify it in the credits, and finally BUY it
on LP.  I didn't care about the stupid story and bad acting, but the
music knocked me out.  I was thrilled to hear the other variations and
it remains, almost 50 years later, one of my favorite compositions!

Mimi Ezust

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