Miss Minto’s Musical Moment Number 45 – William Tell Overture – Rossini

Miss Minto’s Musical Moment Number 45 – William Tell Overture – Rossini

Gioachino Rossini wrote it for his opera, William Tell.

The opera was first performed in 1829.

The overture has four sections:
Dawn. Storm. Call to the Cows. March of the Swiss Soldiers.

The last section is famous in the United States for being the theme music for the radio and television series, The Lone Ranger.

https://youtu.be/GUBhE00h9U0

First, we hear Glen Campbell + orchestra play the theme.

Glen Travis Campbell (April 22, 1936 – August 8, 2017) was an American singer, guitarist, songwriter, television host, and actor. He was best known for a series of hit songs in the 1960s and 1970.

https://youtu.be/BYCQuVii3Es

Bottles performance of William Tell Overture.
This street performer in Helsinki, Finland uses bottles with varying amounts of water in them to play the overture. Notice that the bottles are hung in the pattern of a piano keyboard.

https://youtu.be/PLh_qi17_Yg

William Tell Overture - Just Dance 2016
This is a group of dancers competing to copy the visuals from a video game that uses the William Tell Overture.

https://youtu.be/pS912fluqxo

William Tell Overture played on bottles with a toy train driving past to hit the bottles

https://youtu.be/0gyf65C4ZWY

William Tell Overture - Harmonica cover by a group called Perfect Fourth
There are two standard harmonicas, a double bass harmonica and a chord harmonica.

NB: During online learning I have been producing Miss Minto’s Musical Moments. These are freely available for use with pupils and are suitable for primary aged children. Some will appear on TES and some on the Facebook page for Notable Songs Ltd. Search using: “Miss Minto’s Musical Moments”. There are several dozen “Musical Moments”!