Entry of the Gladiators - Circus Music History
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- Опубліковано 27 сер 2024
- Entry of the Gladiators, or Entrance of the Gladiators, is a march composed by Czech composer Julius Fučík. The piece is famous for its use in circuses.
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Quite the opposite happened to me. It healed my mental wounds inflicted by other people not limited to my relatives.
Coulrophobia can do that
Skill issue /joking
Gladiators and Clowns, two most unlikely entertainers in one song.
Here in Czech republic many confuse Julius Fučík for his nephew of the same name who was a glorified communist journalist. Thus even here Fučík remains a pretty underrated composer.
Julius Fucik: “It is an epic piece of melody that will evoke what it was like when the Roman gladiators entered the arena of the Colosseum, the bloody combats in front of the emperor who with a thumb decides if the defeated gladiator lives or dies and the execution of christians that was apparently the halftime show” (And the reason why a Pope ordered that these Roman coliseums must be preserved in some way instead of being demolished and managed to survive to this day)
P.T. Barnum: Yeaaaaaahhh... whatever, Take this whole fistful of dollars for the rights of your tune. I'll make a few slight changes but believe me that people will remember it for all that you said about gladiators and stuff...
Many years later:
Julius Fucik: What the Fucik!?
Sousa: Goddammit! You would never believe what those Brits did to my Liberty Bell March!
Fucik: First time?
1:59 that one real gladiator just like “wtf am I doing here, this was a mistake”
To be fair, what bigger clown show is there than war?
So it was the Canadian's fault that made a march for soldiers into a music for clowns
Some trick it like a Comedy, when it's originally a Music for the Austro-Hungarian Military.
I had heard that it was a favorite of P.T. Barnum, hence the connection to the circus.
Karl King, the March King wrote a March titled Barnum & Bailey's Favorite.
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One of the reasons this song became so popular was because around the same time that Laurendeau published his arrangement, Wurlitzer released their popular line of 165B military band style organs.
These organs were small, portable, and very popular at fairgrounds, and with traveling circuses and carnivals.
Laurendeau’s “Thunder and Blazes” was one of the songs to be arranged for this organ early on, and so it was readily available to be played.
Oddly enough, the version playing in this video is the later rewrite in cut time. The piece as written by Fucik is slower and has a lot more flow, and it's easy to picture a grand military parade set to it.
A quick search on Wikipedia told me this piece ''was included as a military march in the repertoire of pieces imposed by the SS on prisoners' orchestras to accompany the departures and returns of the work Kommandos in Nazis concentration camps''. Bloody hell.
Well, It's a genuine entertaining piece. That's for sure.
The reqson it got so famous for circus music was band organs. It automated the music playing and could be played any time without having to orgqnize and pay a band. Which was a huge step in streamlining circus, the band organ would fit on the train and was fairly easy to manage in comparison to musicians and thier instruments, or trying to hire bands./orchestras in every town.
What an interesting fact!
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great video!
As soon as I found out the piece's name I wondered why they would play idiot music for gladiators 🤣🤣
The thumbnail was in my latin textbook lol
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