Rhapsodies

Today’s music is Funeral March of a Marionette by Charles Gounod best known as the theme music for Alfred Hitchcock Presents.

It’s interesting how our perceptions of music changes with context from individual to individual. Having first ever seen Alfred Hitchcock presents in reruns on A&E in my thirties this music never really had the scary Halloween connotations for me. In fact the first time I ever heard it was an audio version of Rudyard Kipling‘s Just So Stories.

Therefore when everyone else thinks of dark thrillers when they hear this music, I picture Sterling Holloway reading the Elephant’s Child.

http://youtu.be/5eIk5DWUx_E