Music by Keith Jarrett

Piano Solos by Keith Jarrett from the album Sun Bear Concerts (ECM 1100) ECM Records/Cavelight Music

Special Thanks To

Allans Music Polygram Records EMI Records Castle Music Monitor Recordings Boosey & Hawkes CBS Records

Chris Noonan was obviously so pleased to be given access to Keith Jarrett’s music that he gave Jarrett a head credit:

The main soundtrack music comes from Keith Jarrett’s Sun Bear Concerts, but the theatrical troupe also rehearse and perform to an excerpt from Puccini’s opera Madama Butterfly, but the version isn’t identified in the credits.

Similarly rehearsal to what sounds like a number in the style of a Joan Baez/Jeannie Lewis singer doesn’t see the song identified in the credits, nor to do the credits list the version of Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana which begins the Opera House performance, with some twenty minutes to go in the film. Nor is the South American style pan pipe music accompanying another dance identified, while the Aboriginal music (with didg and clapsticks) accompanying another dance remains anonymous.

Similarly it’s possible to hear Stravinsky’s Firebirds Suite in one number, accompanying the waving of translucent cloth held by sticks, but the credits don’t identify the version.

Unidentified Japanese music accompanies one number with these spoken words:

“In the luminous early morning meadow I happened upon a new born butterfly Climbing out of its green, gold spotted case Here is a being changed Transformed My mind thought And within his mind a person may Incubate new attitudes about himself He will grow and change within And suddenly emerge anew… A changed, more fulfilled person”

Keith Jarrett is too well known to detail here.

His wiki listing here is a good starting point for exploring him and his music.

(Below: the Keith Jarrett release from which the bulk of the underscore was taken. Noonan had plenty to choose from, but mainly used gentle, lyrical, romantic elements in the film).