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The word fanfare comes from a French word that means to blow trumpets. Fanfares have been used for centuries to announce someone or something important. Presidential inaugurations, movies, the Olympics -- they've all had special fanfares written for them.
Music heard in this episode:
Anonymous: 15th century fanfare
Mouret: Rondeau
Dukas: La Peri
Ravel: LÂ’Eventail de Jeanne
Alfred Newman: 20th Century Fox theme
Herbert: Babes in Toyland
Bernstein: Fanfare for J.F.K.
Williams: Olympic Fanfare
Copland: Fanfare for the Common Man
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