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1: "Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage"
by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy. Mendelssohn composed two
sea-inspired tone poems/overtures, the first of which is
"Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage." This piece was
inspired by two poems written by Goethe (a famous German
writer and philosopher): Calm Sea (about a becalmed fisherman),
and A Prosperous Voyage (subsequent gently stirring winds
and waves and the jubilant arrival back at the home port).
While Mendelssohn was a teenager, Goethe had received him
at Goethe's home in Weimar, and during that visit, Goethe
had prophesied that Mendelssohn would have a successful
career. [12 min., 23 sec].
Tracks
2-6: "Winston's Theme."
It consists of a slightly jazzy theme in a contemporary
classical music style followed by a set of four variations.
Winston's Theme
[44 sec]
Variation 1 [45
sec}
Variation
2 [1 min, 32 sec]
Variation
3 [1 min, 24 sec]
Variation
4 [2 min, 54 sec]
Track
7: "Claire's Theme."
The character of this music is more lyrical and gentle than
the muscular and angular music found in "Winston's
Theme." [2 min, 28 sec]
Track
8: "Balstrom's Theme."
This music accompanies a scene in which Paul Balstrom reveals
to Winston all of Paul's medical problems. It consists of
very slow moving chords in the string section along with
occasional rolls on a suspended cymbal. [6 min, 16 sec]
Track
9: "Later at Night."
This music was derived from the fourth variation of Winston's
Theme." [1 min, 5 sec]
Track
10: "Valerie's Theme."
This music is similar in function and style to "Balstrom's
Theme," and accompanies Valerie telling Winston and
Claire about her poor health. The orchestration is the same
as Balstrom's Theme, with the addition of a bassoon. [5
min, 24 sec]
Track
11: "The Confrontation."
This music accompanies the scene where Winston and Dr. Hollings
(the chief of Winston's internal medicine training program),
and Dr. Ed Ross (the NIH researcher) interact and eventually
come to verbal blows. The movie sound track for this scene
consisted of eight repetitions of a conflictive theme. Here
on the CD, three of those cycles are included. [4 min, 16
sec]
Track
12: "Winding Down."
This gentle music for violas, cellos, and string basses
is derived from "Claire's Theme." [1 min, 9 sec]
Track
13: "You and Me Together."
This pop style song (danceable beat with lyrics) ends the
movie and continues throughout the credits. Loretta composed
the music, and Warren Metzler, with consultation from Alison
Madsen, wrote the lyrics. The song portrays moving toward
higher and better ground in life. [4 min, 1 sec]
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