If you have ever lived in a small Japanese town, you might be familiar with the chimes that go off at 7am, 12pm and 5pm. These go off everyday at the same time to remind farmers about what the current time is. When I lived in Senmaya, there was this catchy little tune that played over the town loud speaker everyday at 5pm. It sounded vaguely familiar, but I could never pin it down. That was the case until today.
After reading a random Internet post from another person in Japan, I discovered that the catchy little tune I heard day after day was actually movement two of Dvorak’s From the New World. You can listen to a free recording of it here. Aside from being a daily fixure in Japan, this tune also seems to have been an inspiration for science fiction sountracks everywhere.
Now all that remains is to hunt down where all those other catchy little jingles that play in Japan come from.
0 Responses to “Another day, Another Dvorak”