Flatow had accomplished her main purpose classical music had become part of my life. I was one of the few pupils that got 100% on the music appreciation test. How many teachers would have done that? She extracted from my depths a love for classical music, which I was not aware of.
THE LONE RANGER THEME SONG HOW TO
She gave me a pair of castanets, and showed me how to use them, and just like that, I became a member of the school orchestra. Flatow and ask if I could get into the school orchestra even though I didn’t play an instrument. One day I got up the courage to approach Mrs. Yes, “The Shadow” had a theme, and so did “Let’s Pretend.” Apparently, I had been surrounded by music, much of which I never really heard until I started to listen - really listen. Was music associated with other radio shows I listened to? I wondered. Little did Giacomo Rossini know that music from his opera, “William Tell” that premiered in 1829 would be the theme music for a radio show some 200 years later. The music brought “The Lone Ranger” to life. In my mind’s eye, there was the masked man, sitting on a white horse on a high hill in the west, and I’m thinking, ”Hi Ho Silver, the Lone Ranger Rides again.” Without the music he would just have been a tall white guy, wearing a mask, sitting on a white horse, on a hill. That moment of hearing turned into one of listening and seeing. What was the Lone Ranger music doing in a music appreciation class? I’ll never forget the day she played ”The William Tell Overture.” The music started out very calm and melodic, and then, the theme to “The Lone Ranger” blasted into my ears. She would tell us about famous composers of the past and play music on a Victrola. Who Was That Masked Man? Clayton Moore as the Lone Ranger atop his trust steed. I would never experience another first like this again. Sitting in an orchestra seat in the Brooklyn Academy of Music was a whole new ballgame. I had heard this music before but in a small room coming from a small box on Mrs. I immediately recognized the first notes of Beethoven’s 5th Symphony.
He made another hand movement and then I heard it: “Da da da dah, da da da daah.” The conductor turned and faced the orchestra, raised his arms, baton in his right hand.
People started to applaud so I joined in. Suddenly a lone figure, the orchestra conductor, appeared in the wings, walked center stage, and faced the audience. Then, they just sat there quietly as if they were waiting for something to happen. Then, I began to hear sounds, the musicians playing notes, testing out their instruments. It was the first time I had ever seen an entrance like this it looked like a moving garden of musical instruments. From the wings, the orchestra members walked slowly onto the stage.