It builds, softly, with three ascending notes.then an eruption of strings and woodwinds, punctuated by colossal timpani hits.
(Above is the trailer-brace yourself-and here's a link to the scene.) -Joshua Rothkopfĭownload Tubular Bells on Amazon Watch the video for Tubular Bells by Mike Oldfield 'There's not a day in my life that I don't feel like a fraud,' one of them says, anguished.
Suddenly Burstyn stops, noticing two priests having a heart-to-heart conversation. Nuns pass, their robes billowing in ghostly waves. Children cavort in costume—it's Halloween. Early in the film itself, you seen Ellen Burstyn strolling down a leaf-strewn Georgetown street. In the piece's tinkling piano and synths, you can hear a premonition of the iconic soundtracks of John Carpenter to come. The most signature piece of music to ever grace a horror movie (and now an instant evocation of creeping doom), Mike Oldfield's prog-rock composition was selected for this 1973 blockbuster's opening theme after an entire original score was rejected by director William Friedkin.
