THE JAMES BURKE MUSIC COLLECTION (music found in Mr. Burke's television programs) page 1 - page 2 - page 3 - page 4 The following is an e-mail provided by Kage Baker on January 12, 2005, regarding music she has identified in the Connections 1 series: - - - Last night I watched the whole Connections 1 set over again, for the first time since I originally saw it in 1979. I've heard a great deal of classical music since that time, and can identify some of the excerpts used in the series, though I can't place them for exact scenes without watching the whole thing over again. Which I will certainly do... but for now I can tell you: There is a sequence with a mounted knight in full armor galloping full tilt toward Swiss pikemen-- that's definitely a piece called The Entry of the French, by Zoltan Kodaly, from his comic opera Hary Janos. There is a sequence on the Industrial Revolution showing factories belching coal-soot over an English country village, with an orange filter effect used on the sky. The music here is from Ralph Vaughan Williams' Job: A Masque for Dancing. I also heard bits from Benjamin Britton's Four Sea Interludes, from Peter Grimes, as well as more Vaughan Williams, in particular his Sinfonia Antarctica (an eerie-sounding bit with a soprano soloist singing without words, which closes one episode and open the next one). And a lot is used from Sir William Walton's score for Olivier's film of Henry V. Interesting to see the guy who later played Zaphod Beeblebrox in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy doing the St. Crispin's Day speech! Hope this adds to your store of information. Very best, Kage Baker