Midnight Media Cafe - Gassenhauer
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Gassenhauer - Carl Orff
from the soundtrack to the film Badlands (1973)
Most people know Carl Orff solely from his orchestral piece O Fortuna from Carmina Burana, but he wrote many lovely, gentle pieces that are light years from the heavy bombast of that well-known work. This one here is probably his second best-known work, from the Terence Malick film Badlands, starring a very young Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek. The character of this music stands in stark contrast to the subject matter of that film - although the movie begins with directionless youth, summer days, and hesitant love, it ends up in a very different place, and the unflagging cheerfulness of the theme serves to remind the viewer of where the characters started out, thus adding a touching pathos to their end.
For my part, this piece makes me want to dance. It carries hints of any number of folkloric styles, Andean and Central American in particular. To me it feels gentle, flirtatious, cheerful. It makes me think of sunlit spring festivals, smiles, ruffles flowing through air, green branches and rippling streams. A tune about the sweetness of life.
Download the .mp3 from MediaFire here.
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from the soundtrack to the film Badlands (1973)
Most people know Carl Orff solely from his orchestral piece O Fortuna from Carmina Burana, but he wrote many lovely, gentle pieces that are light years from the heavy bombast of that well-known work. This one here is probably his second best-known work, from the Terence Malick film Badlands, starring a very young Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek. The character of this music stands in stark contrast to the subject matter of that film - although the movie begins with directionless youth, summer days, and hesitant love, it ends up in a very different place, and the unflagging cheerfulness of the theme serves to remind the viewer of where the characters started out, thus adding a touching pathos to their end.
For my part, this piece makes me want to dance. It carries hints of any number of folkloric styles, Andean and Central American in particular. To me it feels gentle, flirtatious, cheerful. It makes me think of sunlit spring festivals, smiles, ruffles flowing through air, green branches and rippling streams. A tune about the sweetness of life.
Download the .mp3 from MediaFire here.