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Old 10-07-2011, 05:59 AM   #19 (permalink)
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I love the music for "Dance of the The Knights" from Prokofiev's ballet, Romeo and Juliet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romeo_a...iet_(Prokofiev). I first heard the song in some car commercial and didn't realize until recently that it is part of a ballet:

Prokofiev - "Dance of the Knights" (or Montagues and Capulets) from his ballet, Romeo and Juliet
I like the music's somber, destructive power contrasting with the delicate, romantic, hopeful interludes. An especially nice moment in the ballet (shown below) is when Romeo and Juliet come face to face (at 5:20) and the somber, martial theme re-emerges, foreshadowing the devastation that is to come in their lives:
In my recent explorations of classical music, this has been one of the songs I've gotten into the most. I had never seen the accompanying dance before. Is it wrong that up until this moment the song always conjured up very vivid images of Darth Vader for me?
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