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  • Was a theme from Beethoven 6 used in a UK children's TV or radio show?

    From Geoff Clare@geoff@clare.See-My-Signature.invalid to rec.music.classical on Fri Jul 26 14:36:27 2024
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    The recent mention of Beethoven's 6th reminded me of a distant memory
    I have of hearing it for the first time as a child in 1960's England
    and recognising a theme from it as one I knew from a TV show or
    perhaps a radio show.

    I decided to try and find out which show it was, but much Googling
    has not turned up anything, so I'm wondering if my memory is playing
    tricks on me.

    Long shot, but does anyone here know of an old UK children's TV or
    radio show that used a theme from Beethoven's 6th. I think I was
    about five, so it would have been a show for young children.
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    Geoff Clare <netnews@gclare.org.uk>
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  • From herst@herst@online.nl (Herman) to rec.music.classical on Fri Jul 26 16:17:19 2024
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    It may also have been something that sounds like Beethoven 6, put
    together by the composer of the soundtrack.
    Beethoven F major symphony is in a way 'classical music central', in
    that a lot of other classical era music sounds a bit like it.
    Even one of Haydn's London symphonies has a bit that has the same sound
    and feeling.
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  • From Geoff Clare@geoff@clare.See-My-Signature.invalid to rec.music.classical on Tue Jul 30 14:21:32 2024
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    I wrote:

    The recent mention of Beethoven's 6th reminded me of a distant memory
    I have of hearing it for the first time as a child in 1960's England
    and recognising a theme from it as one I knew from a TV show or
    perhaps a radio show.

    I decided to try and find out which show it was, but much Googling
    has not turned up anything, so I'm wondering if my memory is playing
    tricks on me.

    Herman replied:

    It may also have been something that sounds like Beethoven 6, put
    together by the composer of the soundtrack.

    Yes, I suspect the explanation may be something like that.

    I resorted to asking some chat bots, and Llama 3 suggested that
    the show was "The Woodentops". I found some recordings of that
    show on youtube and listened to its theme, but I'm not sure it's
    similar enough.
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    Geoff Clare <netnews@gclare.org.uk>
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  • From herst@herst@online.nl (Herman) to rec.music.classical on Wed Jul 31 08:43:22 2024
    From Newsgroup: rec.music.classical

    Wow, TV from the Fifties...

    Perhaps BBC wanted something sounding like the Pastoral because of the
    farm setting?
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