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This is a nice little bit. It's a piece I hear so infrequently that it came across as new.

Anyway, speaking of dreams -- as we were in the viola thread -- this piece led me to another on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jFXGUMkM7o

Somebody has created a trailer-like montage of scenes from the film and set it to the Ski Run music (Heindorf version, I think). At first you think it's a mistake: wrong music for the scenes on screen. In fact, it's a terrific idea! You capture the best things about the film (the imagery, the suspense, the music) and leave out the weak elements (plot, characterization). Well done.

Arabians! Well, that got our attention. If some of you wonder why Mary [Peatman] hasn't written much for PMS in recent years, it's because she's put so much energy into her career as a very serious competitive rider of championship Arabians. So of course, this one got her immediate attention. Horse shows do in fact use recorded music all the time, and I have sometimes heard the Parade in that context. (John Williams's Olympic fanfares are more common.) It was a dream of Mary's to do a victory pass sometime to the Ben-Hur music, but though she's had many victories, she never had the opportunity to choose the music.

Incidentally the race horses in B-H are not Arabians at all, but Lippizaners, a heavier breed more suitable to pulling chariots. The gift horse for Messala is an Arabian. As is the Princess's escape horse in THIEF OF BAGDAD. You can tell by the high tail carriage, which is also apparent in the current video.