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[senoritafish]

What is the piece of classical music that starts out with a single clarinet, and using the same theme, adds on more and more parts of the orchestra, getting louder and more intense until whole thing is crashing around your ears? I know it was featured fairly prominently in the movie "10" (remember, ages ago with Bo Derek and Dudley Moore). and I'm humming it right now, but I'm drawing a blank.

I only ask because I just heard the most interesting song by Rufus Wainright, from a forthcoming album, that started out with several voices humming in harmony, then a vocal and orchestral and finally strains from the above piece of music thrown in the background. I'll definitely have to look for that when it comes out.

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[thatmikeychick.livejournal.com]

Sounds like you may be talking about Rhapsody in Blue by George Gershwin...

[senoritafish.livejournal.com]

Nope, although that is a great piece of music, and you're right, it does start with a single clarinet and builds. I love Gershwin, and Rhapsody in Blue is one of my favorites.

What I was thinking of, and it came to me just as I was rereading your comment (how long was that damn tune tormenting me?), was Boléro by Maurice Ravel. As powerful, but a different mood. I’ve heard it said that it’s so repetitive, it should be boring, but it never is.

[bakayaro-onna.livejournal.com]

You win the bishie plushie! It is Bolero! And it really is not repetitive if you listen closely and hear how the other instruments slowly get layered onto the theme.

I must admit I did think of Rhapsody in Blue first.