Carl Davis

And there are super fans.

You're right, because Andrew and Mayo has got in touch to say the Pride and Prejudice opening theme was by Carl Davis, influenced by the music of Franz Schubert from the same period as Jane Austen.

So there's an awful lot of Austen

mania.

I wish I could share it, 'cause it was really well done.

It was most likely the Carl Davis score, who also scored the Harold Lloyd movie that we saw.

I've...

Probably.

I'll pick something from an audience point of view.

Quite soon after I joined the LPO, we used to do a lot of the Carl Davis scores to silent movies.

So Charlie Chaplin, Ben-Hur, Napoleon.

And these were epic occasions.

They've all mentioned it in different interviews or on social media.

What makes this fascinating is that Carl Davis was imitating Beethoven in the 1995 series.

But Anne is choosing to imitate Carl Davis while also being inspired by the classical era, just like Dario Marinelli for the 2005 movie, without trying to copy the classical era.

Like many adaptations, the keyboard is an important component, not only as Mary's instrument, but as an instrument played by many of the Regency era, including Jane Austen herself.

The instrumentation often stays on the smaller side with focus on strings and keyboard, with a few other instruments here and there for color or drama, such as the clarinet or the harp.

And Doc was one of the persons who began on that show in 1930.

And I describe in one of the chapters in the book how it all happened, because he was in a one-room, attended a one-room school in Broadhead, Kentucky, along with Carl Davis, whose father was the principal of that one-room school, and a fellow named Hartford, Connecticut, Taylor, Hardy Taylor.

And they went to Redbud School, schoolhouse.

preceding them by a couple years was a man by the name of John Lair.

And John Lair, who came up to Chicago to work at the YMCA and stuff, became part of the National Barn Dance, part of the radio show as a MC and kind of a manager.

And so he knew his younger schoolmates, Doc and Hardy Taylor and Carl Davis, who were playing together and invited them up to Chicago.

John Lair, who was an important promoter of this music in his time, with enormous impact.

He developed a group called the Coon Creek Girls, an all-girls string band, an all-women's string band, of the Lily Mae Ledford.