Use in Popular Culture
The Overture's love theme has been used in many TV shows and movies such as Columbo, Kim Possible, The Jazz Singer (1927), Wayne's World, Animaniacs, Freakazoid, Pinky and the Brain, Road Rovers, Taz-Mania, Tiny Toons, Scrubs, Seeing Double, The Ren and Stimpy Show, South Park, Clueless, A Christmas Story, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Moonraker, SpongeBob SquarePants, Pushing Daisies, Sesame Street, El Chavo, The Sims, The Three Musketeers, etc.
Along with another Tchaikovsky piece, Dance of the Reed Flutes from the ballet The Nutcracker, the Romeo and Juliet love theme was sampled at the same time to the song "Love, so Lovely" for the direct-to-video Disney film Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers.
Excerpts from the score were used in the 2005 ballet Anna Karenina, choreographed by Boris Eifman.
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Romeo and Juliet Overture
You can download the clip or download a player to play the clip in your browser. Performed by the Skidmore College Orchestra, courtesy of Musopen Read more about this topic: Romeo And Juliet (Tchaikovsky) Famous quotes containing the words popular and/or culture:“Like other secret lovers, many speak mockingly about popular culture to conceal their passion for it.” “Anthropologists have found that around the world whatever is considered “men’s work” is almost universally given higher status than “women’s work.” If in one culture it is men who build houses and women who make baskets, then that culture will see house-building as more important. In another culture, perhaps right next door, the reverse may be true, and basket- weaving will have higher social status than house-building.” |