Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, Sz. 106, BB 114 is one of the best-known compositions by the Hungarian composer Béla Bartók. Commissioned by Paul Sacher to celebrate the tenth anniversary o
The composer in 1927
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The Shining is a 1980 psychological horror film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick and co-written with novelist Diane Johnson. It is based on Stephen King's 1977 novel and stars Jack Nicholson,
Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta
…for The Vampira Show (1954–55). The movement was also featured in the Encyclopaedia Britannica film The Solar System (1977) and Stanley Kubrick's film The Shining (1980). Jerry Goldsmith wrote in the style of this piece for the 1962 film Freud: The Secret Passion. It also was the soundtrack for the 1978 Australian…
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The film's most famous scene, when Jack places his face through the broken door and says, "Here's Johnny!", which echoes scenes in both D. W. Griffith's Broken Blossoms (1919) and the 1921 Swedish horror film The Phantom Carriage.
For the ending, Nicholson's face was superimposed over this authentic 1921 dance picture.
Saint Mary Lake with its Wild Goose Island is seen during the opening scene of The Shining.