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  • ID the opera of this earworm tune?

    From Charles Packer@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jun 6 01:53:32 2020
    Would like to track down a tune heard in childhood when our house
    was filled with the sounds of the Met broadcasts on Saturdays and
    replays of the tapes during the week. I believe it was from
    Puccini or Verdi, but I've read the Wikipedia plot summaries of
    likely suspects to no avail.

    A street scene, festive. A marching band is heard in the distance.
    It plays that sprightly tune, each time louder as it approaches.
    The tune lends itself to repetition because its last phrase segues
    easily into the beginning. At each ending there is cheering and
    clapping. Then, in the (aural) foreground the soprano sees
    someone or something that is evidently bad news. What follows is,
    you know, operatic.

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  • From michael_dasilva@hotmail.com@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jun 29 16:33:22 2020
    Pagliacci? From 8:00
    https://youtu.be/kaBnYOF384M

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  • From katharinajulie@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jun 29 22:34:01 2020
    Traviata 4th act

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  • From B Bee@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jun 30 07:19:27 2020
    It sounds like you're describing Act 4, sc.sc.2. of Gounod's Faust. Band is heard in the distance, soldiers come onstage, Siebel and Marthe exchange bad news that Marguerites brother has come home. Then the Soldiers Chorus itself.

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  • From Charles Packer@21:1/5 to B Bee on Mon Jul 6 07:38:57 2020
    On Tue, 30 Jun 2020 07:19:27 -0700, B Bee wrote:

    It sounds like you're describing Act 4, sc.sc.2. of Gounod's Faust. Band
    is heard in the distance, soldiers come onstage, Siebel and Marthe
    exchange bad news that Marguerites brother has come home. Then the
    Soldiers Chorus itself.

    I found it -- it's La Boheme, end of Act 2. But the context, of
    course, is comic, not tragic, so I had misremembered that.
    And in the four different Youtube videos I watched, the scene is
    over in a minute or so, not the drawn out sequence I had remembered.
    Thanks for everybody's help.

    As for the Gounod, I noticed that the middle part of the chorus
    sounds like a Sousa march I remembered from long ago. Now I've got
    to get busy and locate that march...

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