In the Hall of the Mountain King
January 11, 2008When I was very small, someone read to me a story of either a mountain king or an elf king. The hero of the story was a small boy who somehow got into the great hall, and had to escape. I’m not sure of the origin, there seem to be several variations of this story. At the time, it scared the daylights out of me.
Many know the music from Edvard Greig’s Peer Gynt, but Peter Lorre’s character whistles it in the movie M, and that is a most haunting version. He can scare the daylights out of me too.
Out of the blue tonight, sorta, I’m watching Apocalyptica’s video.
Over at Musical Warfare, Chris can discuss Apocalyptica much more intelligently than I, when he is not talking about other metal groups. They’ve been around for awhile, but cello metal is very new to me.
As a child i listened to the story of Peer Gynt and the trolls which had the incredibly thrilling music in the background and someone with a very deep voice telling the story. I WISH I could find this version, i have searched everywhere.
Comment by Deb — January 17, 2008 @ 12:08 pm