GR soundtrack

[Tom Stanton]

At 10:13 PM 7/11/97 -0400, Paul Murphy wrote:
>Henry M writes:
>
>>The music of GR is Jazz, particularly bebop. Remember? ...
>
>Sure, we need some bop in there as well. It's sort of fun compiling a
>soundtrack to a non-existent film, almost as much fun as casting it ... I'd
>go for a combination / collage of lots of different styles and eras,
>including classical and rock -- putting Webern up against Fripp and Bird
>would be interesting ... something like what Fassbinder attempted in the
>final episode of _Berlin Alexanderplatz_, when he ran together oom-pah,
>Cabaret songs, and Kraftwerk to underpin and comment on Biberkopf's plunge
>into madness.

Where are the kazoos? The Spike Jones bits? What about
Big Band stuff for WW2? Crooners (for "It's Too Soon to Know")
and English Music hall bits (Pirate's first song). You only get to 
use R&R in the last 100+ pages. The classical stuff would not,
IMHO, dominate the soundtrack. 'Twould be Eklectik...