The opera he mentions in the carriage is Don Giovanni.
I'm not too worried by interwar Berlin being anachronistic. If I were to worry about anachronisms in the film, I'd be here all day ;) And after all, it's only 30 years off.
I suspect that looking for "non-British music that ties into queer history" is a bit of a tangent from what Zimmer was doing. From his interviews, it seems he was looking for music that expressed otherness and virtuosity. The queer part of the "otherness" doesn't seem to be something he was going for overtly/explicitly, so looking for gay composers wasn't high on his priority list.
I do wonder if anyone's done a round-up of music mentioned in the stories and considered it in this light? I know that Mendelssohn's Lieder are mentioned (ahem, even Rex Stout seems to think that's kind of gay)... what else?
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Date: 2010-04-28 06:07 pm (UTC)I'm not too worried by interwar Berlin being anachronistic. If I were to worry about anachronisms in the film, I'd be here all day ;) And after all, it's only 30 years off.
I suspect that looking for "non-British music that ties into queer history" is a bit of a tangent from what Zimmer was doing. From his interviews, it seems he was looking for music that expressed otherness and virtuosity. The queer part of the "otherness" doesn't seem to be something he was going for overtly/explicitly, so looking for gay composers wasn't high on his priority list.
I do wonder if anyone's done a round-up of music mentioned in the stories and considered it in this light? I know that Mendelssohn's Lieder are mentioned (ahem, even Rex Stout seems to think that's kind of gay)... what else?