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Old 04-22-2008, 10:27 AM   #17 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Catch22 View Post
Shostakovich's 5th Symphony (incidentally, the guy who did music for "Clear and Present Danger" stole a good bit from the 3rd movement)
Tchaikovsky's 1st Piano Concerto
Copland's Appalachian Spring
Holst's First Suite in Eb, Second Suite in F (just for good measure)
I remember seeing "Troy" in the theater and telling my wife, "This guy just directly lifted about half of the fourth movement of Shostakovich's 5th." After reading your post, I looked up both films and ... Yup. Same guy (James Horner) wrote both scores.

BTW, nice choices, Catch22.
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