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The Thieving Magpie is best known for the overture, which is musically notable for its use of snare drums. This memorable section in Rossini's overture evokes the image of the opera's main subject: a devilishly clever, thieving magpie. Rossini wrote quickly, and La gazza ladra was no exception. A 19th-century biography quotes him as saying that ...
The Thieving Magpie (La Gazza Ladra) is a double live album by the British neo-prog band Marillion.It was named after the introductory piece of classical music the band used before coming on stage during the Clutching at Straws tour 1987–1988, the overture to Rossini's opera La gazza ladra, which translates as "The Thieving Magpie".
The second soundtrack album contains a synthesiser version of Rossini's "La Gazza Ladra" (The Thieving Magpie); the film contains an orchestral version. In 1998, a digitally-remastered album edition, with tracks of the synthesiser music was released.
In the time following her wedding, she wrote twenty poems-portraits called La gazza ladra (The Thieving Magpie), later to be released in the volume Vuoto d'amore (Empty Love), together with some works by Pierri. During her time in Taranto, she also finished L'altra verità.
Thieving Magpie , 1848 novel by Alexander Herzen about a production of the French play in a Russian serf theatre Thieving Magpie (film) , 1958 Soviet drama film, based on Herzens's novel The Thieving Magpie (album) , 1988 double live album by Marillion named after the overture to Rossini's opera
The first part, "The Thieving Magpie", begins with the narrator, Toru Okada, a low-key and unemployed lawyer's assistant, being tasked by his wife, Kumiko, to find their missing cat. Kumiko suggests looking in the alley, a closed-off strip of land behind their house.
"La Gazza Ladra" ("The Thieving Magpie", Abridged) (Gioachino Rossini) 5:50: Not actually commissioned for the movie, but inspired by the movie's use of the orchestral version. "Theme from A Clockwork Orange (Beethoviana)" 1:44: The title theme reset in the style of Beethoven and played using flute-like tones. "Ninth Symphony: Second Movement" 4:52
The band's second live album, The Thieving Magpie, was released in late 1988, marking the end of an era. Aftermath ... In Q in 1987, David Hepworth wrote: ...