Bob Chen wrote:

>Jon Johanning writes:
>
>>Or does anyone have any evidence that "Amadeus" and "Immortal Beloved"
>>actually created any new CM devotees?
>
>Count me as one late convert who came to the music through the movies.

While they were not the only influence leading me to classical music
during my childhood and teens, they were a large one.

The first such film may have also been my first foreign movie (French, w/
subtitles) entitled "Schubert Serenade".  There was the romanticized life
of Chopin in "Song to Remember".  There was a silly little film about a
burlesque singer (something I innocently didn't know the significance of)
brought to Interlochen, which got me to Grieg's Piano Concerto.  There
was a Jose Iturbi, Margret O'Brien, Jimmy Durante movie called "Music
for Millions" which introduced me to Debussy's Claire de Lune played on a
harmonica by Larry Adler, and the Hallelujah chorus from the Messiah.  And
there was "Brief Encounter" which introduced me to Rachmaninoff's Second
Piano Concerto.  I could probably think of a few more films I saw at that
time.

Walter Meyer