I love the overture itself, it takes some of the best portions of the score and combines it into one of the greatest overtures ever written for the silver screen. This sets the mood so well. Well done to Max Steiner.
Imagine yourself in early 1940, at a "typical small town movie theater". You've just settled in your seat to see the film- no "coming attractions", newsreels, cartoons or "selected short subjects" before THIS film. The house lights dim, the curtain parts, and this appears on the screen. Not having seen this before, you're impressed with the "Overture". Wait until the opening title.....
I first saw Gone With The Wind at the age of 12, in a theater, on the big screen, the character of Scarlet was supposedly based on an ancestor of mine,Martha "Mittie" Irvine of Roswell, grandmother of my cousin, Teddy Roosevelt.
My God. What a beautiful story. I usually have little or no love for romance, but this was really a jewel, this story. It really opened my mind to the Confederates, and even my heart possibly. All the things that could've happened. This was one of the only movies which broke my heard, and barely anything mended it. And onto that, it has the only overture which I was never tempted to skip.
Mancher Komponist, der zur Übergenüge in Konzertsälen und Opernhäusern zu hören ist, könnte sich glücklich schätzen, musikalische Einfälle wie Steiner gehabt zu haben.
This is very affecting music because it was recorded 80 years ago before the world erupted in the flames of war!! I always find it poignant for that reason. And the portamento of the violins shows that they were still using this technique in the late 1930s. (Portamento: a slide from one note to another, especially in singing or playing the violin.)
@fromthesidelines You have just gone back in time and have used your futuristic mind reading technology on somebody who is seeing this a second time out of the 12 times they've seen it in the theater and perfectly predicted their thoughts to a T.
