Millennium music heard in Black Christmas

[The Old Man]

I finally got around to watching Morgan and Wong's remake of Black Christmas (2006) a couple of nights ago.

During the film there are a lot of music tracks, but I almost shot out of my seat when I heard my favourite beautiful music from Millennium's Midnight of the Century.

Mark Snow used Pyotr (Peter) Ilyich Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker Suite, Op.71: d. Danse arabe. Allegretto (Arabian Dance) in this episode, I find it absolutely beautiful.

It went well in the very gory Black Christmas too. Its also re-mixed into the second track on the m=2000 CD which is stunning too.

You can here it here on Youtube.

https://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=rx8cCLumV10

The ultimate Christmas theme?

[Orodromeus]

For me it will always remind me of 1940's "Fantasia"!... How beautiful!

Arabian Dance starts at 5:15

The Sugar Plum Fairy (1st on that video) was used in an XF episode as well (5X01: Unusual Suspects).

[Guest arthur]

Nutcracker is wonderful.

I plan to watch Black Christmas.The sole reason being Kristen.

Edited December 4, 2008 by arthur

[The Old Man]

She won't disappoint and may even shock! Great to see Kristen on screen again.

Last night I bought and downloaded this track for just 79p from Amazon as a DRM-free MP3. Love it.

[ethsnafu]

Hi guys,

I was chatting to a few folk about this only the other day. I shot out of my seat too. It's the scene which is a flashback to Billy's childhood and it's played right at the moment he approaches the Christmas Tree. Given that the scene is shot in black and white (akin to their use of it in The Curse of Frank Black to denote a flashback scene), has all the identifiable hallmarks of Morgan and Wong's writing and music used in Millennium is playing in the background you forget, just for a moment, that you are not watching our beloved show. If only. Another Millennium Christmas Episode would be the single best Christmas present I can think of.

Eth

[The Old Man]

Oh one can surely dream Eth! I love all of the Christmas themed episodes of Millennium, thank god for what we have!