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PostMon Jan 23, 2012 6:06 am

A good friend of mine who's a professor of History asks me:

here's a silly piece of music I like a great deal: Jacques Ibert's _Divertissement_. I use the last movement of it and a photo of the Gare Montparnasse train accident as by intro to the French Third republic. Notionally, the _Divertissement_ started out as the music for a silent French film. I don't suppose you happen to know which?


Does anyone know?

Bob
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Re: Ibert

PostMon Jan 23, 2012 6:22 am

The original music was written for "The Italian Straw Hat"- but for a production of the stage farce, not for Clair's film.
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Re: Ibert

PostMon Jan 23, 2012 7:32 am

Thanks, Eric!

Bob
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