The unfortunate reality of the William Tell Overture is that it's just seen as "the cowboy song". It truly is an incredible piece, this version especially
Rossini had four parts (movements) without a break. This has always been my favorite classical piece despite my complete admiration for Beethoven. I guess Clayton Moore had more pull when I was 7.
While in the Navy I was stationed onboard the USS RANGER (CV-61) several times, this song was used as their "break-away" music, it still gives me chills hearing it. Standing on the flight deck with this blasting over the 5-MC and the ship making a fast break portside, you had to be there.
TFW you're listening to this when driving along the interstate and you wonder why everyone is driving so slow and you look down at the speedometer and realize you're doing 110 MPH.
I don't think I've ever embarrassed myself with fine music, but lemme tell ya: there've been at least two occasions where I forgot how high I left one or another volume control, followed by the Star Wars theme BURSTING to life and scaring the hell outta me. A jump, an adrenal boost, the whole nine yards.
First time I saw the movie I was out of the room getting some water. I hustled my ass back into the room when I heard that trumpet sounding the opening notes.
As was I. I especially loved the trombones descending accelerando near the end. Remember, it's a movie, based on a fantasy story that never happened. To expect historical accuracy is oxymoronic.
I was thirteen when my Grandfather took me to see this movie the night it premiered; I was in a bad way as a teenager, bad attitude, bad vocabulary, getting in fights out East, so they sent me to spend the summer with Grandpa and Great Grandma. I never told my grandfather straight out that, this movie (that summer) truly changed my life as a boy in a way I can’t really explain, but, something kinda switched in me for the better afterwards. I straightened out more and am a successful adult.
Eh, I liked the fresh approach to it honestly. I still love the TV show but as a TV show. Try making that into a film it would bore a lot of the target audience to tears.
I was put off seeing this movie by the critics. But now have seen it I think it is brilliant and I enjoyed so much. And this music, which we as kids never took seriously, I now realize is fantastic! Love it!
Bit of good advice, do not be put off of movies by others opinions go to a movie despite prior opinions and make your own conclusion. I love by this rule and I have come to like or even love films that critics say are terrible but actually aren't. Don't follow the pack lead the pack
I love the bit where the Lone Ranger attempts to interact with the other Native Americans by acting like Tonto in front of them, and they just look at him like he's completely insane.
you know what acting is right? those people research for each role they play. he's not in "Red face" he's in the ROLE of a native american whom he had to RESEARCH the part to play it properly.
I wonder how much fun it is for film composers to rearrange classical pieces like this in their own style and to fit what ever film they're working on. I also wonder if they sometimes do it while they're at home out of boredom or when they have a sort of writer's block.
Sommer57 plagerism? in the US nobody can claim copyright 50 years after the creators death. they and all others have the right to use the sheet music as theyvsee fit.
@@103035icle wrong, Disney has continued to push money into the pockets of politicians to keep all disney properties theirs when they should've been in public domain for decades now.
@@103035icle plagiarism has nothing to do with being legal. It is putting your label on the idea of someone else. Now did Zimmer say he composed it from scratch? He certainly wasnt that dumb... ?
@@anderrose487 Then he was a Siberian Aboriginie as there were no "native" Homo-species in the western hemisphere. I mean, if you are going to insist on technicalities.
I don't care what anybody says, I liked this movie. yeah, it was a little campy. but otherwise it was true to the origin of the Lone Ranger storyline. And I really liked the Overture remix. Thanks for the post
The overall movie was pretty mediocre but the moment this piece of music starts and the whole action set-piece that follows really go some way to redeeming it. If the entire movie had the energy and sense of fun of that one sequence it could've been great.
I LOVED this. I still work out to it. No, it isn't straight through Rossini's "William Tell". It is crafted to fit the story of the Lone Ranger like a glove. And yes it works. Magnificently.
When I listen to this song, I imagine myself riding a horse in a British Dragoon Company chasing rebels fleeing in the Revolutionary War in an open field. I have a very overactive imagine.
Harry potter " Hi Ho Firbolt away" Ron Waesley " never do that again Harry " Harry " O sorry Ron" Hermione " Boys" in a Dot Warner voice. Ginny " come let save the day".
I loved the movie!!!!!!! I think most people thought it should have been more serious, like the TV series. But, really, with Captain Jack Sparrow in it?????? Depp may have been a little over the top, but, that is Depp!!!!!! I thought the movie was great!!!!!
The ultimate chase music god this is beyond legendary I absolutely love it hans zimmer is a genius for being able to remix this so damn well and massive credit to the original composer for making one of the best classical pieces ever
used to watch the original series in the mid seventies when I was 5. I was around ten when I realized This music wasn't written specifically for The Lone Ranger.
I honestly laughed during the entire ending train chase scene because everything was just so ridiculous already and when this music started playing I just lost it. I don't think I've ever laughed so hard or long at something before.
I've seen far worse. This was actually OK. Not great, but OK. The reason for the hate was that the media ripped into the movie due to the production stopping briefly. The people behind the scenes blame the media for looking at that rather than the actual movie content, which seemed very true. If you see the movie now, it's not as bad as most think.
My dad plays camptown races when he does the dishes at 8 in the morning when we're all still sleeping. So once I woke up at 6 and played this. Revenge is a dish best served cold.
+wongie lee OMG... "come away come away with William Tell, come away to a land that he knows so well, what a day what a day when the apple fell, for Tell of Switzerland." and folks, yes it DOES scan... with Rossini.
the real William Tell overture is a little on the boring side? it's putting me to sleep. if i could, i would adapt the Gangnam Style Dance to this tune.
People expected Casablanca or Gone with the Wind. It was NEVER going to be that. The Lone Ranger was never about character development or deep intrigue with multiple subplots. It was always about good versus evil. The guy in the white hat against the guys in the black hats. It is not supposed to be realistic! And the music is something you simply cannot forget.
All you youngsters out there who have never heard of the Lone Ranger ? Play this piece to your parents and without letting them see what it is ask your dad what it reminds him of. I bet within seconds he will say "The Lone Ranger"
Lone Ranger,the only guy who can chase 3 bad men at one time,not break a sweat,keep his clothes pristine clean,nab all of them,and not have any shot wounds! Now that's a Superhero!!!
One cannot improve on the original. Too much changing of the song and this does NOT make me think of The Lone Ranger and is even more annoying that the horrible movie. It bombed at the box office because the film makers of today have NO idea of what made the beloved television shows and films of the past so beloved. Take the A Team, The Beverly Hillbillies, The Dukes of Hazard and so many more that have failed and died. And Jessica Simpson, an actress so bad that she was incapable of reading the cue cards for the movie. " It is a movie that your whole family will enjoy. " 10 words and she couldn't read them right despite numerous tries. Toonces the Cat from Saturday Night Live could have driven the General Lee better than those two inept actors in the movie. They think they can do better with horrible remakes and they usually FAIL. Remember Clinton Spillsbury and his dubbed in voice ? It too failed at the box office, in part because fans stayed away because of the Wrather Corporation's terrible treatment of Clayton Moore. That movie was horrible as well. It will only be when someone who reveres the past and produces a movie honoring the past and not what they THINK the characters should be, will be successful. There is, was and always will be only one true Lone Ranger and Tonto and it is Clayton Moore and Jay Silverheels and not some weird Tonto with a bird perched on his head.
No one gave this Picture the credit it should've been given.The expense of the scenes were amazing.I got a little lost in some of the characters history and was straining to know many details of all the characters.The music was excellent
i am 32 and i used to watch the lone ranger on reruns with my mom the thing that annoyed me about the movie was they did not get a native american to play tonto this music though is really good
***** Johnny Depp did play a loyal,honest,talented American Indian.We all grew up knowing about the famous TONTO weather he was a real American Indian or just made up in a writers mind TONTO would be a great partner I would feel lucky to have next to me.So the movie and the 1950s T V show made it clear that the American Indians were part of the great western era in our great country-AMERICA
Rossini, weirdly, just stopped writing music when he reached a certain point in his life. Just - stopped. That is very strange for an artist. Nothing stopped Beethoven.
+Anton K er...... Sorry, not to be a nuisance, really, but to clarify a thing- he DID stop writing music, yes, to enjoy life to the fullest, so to speak, considering how much he liked to eat and drink, BUT he DID come back for some pieces he himself called (in French, no less), Pechés de la vieillesse - Sins of the Old Age. Seriously, Rossini was a rockstar!
+Anton K He had money.. He had notoriety.... He wrote the story of music..... Why don't stop and relax??.. And thurtly he didn't stop composing.. He stopped composing operas' but not chamber music.. Se the "peches de vieillesse" ......
Rossini stopped because he knew that the more music he produced, the more stale his work would become. Would you rather have a basket of 4 fresh apples or a truckload of rotten shit?
This is not the truth. Rossini was very very very rich and he was really tired of the Operas' world. in fact he wrote a lot of chamber music when he retired to France but he was Bored of the Opera's world. Trust me I'm Italian and I wrote my degree thesis about Rossini!.
I love classical music and the first time I heard this bastardization of Rossini's wonderful overture I was put off. But now, I love this rendition more .
