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FERNANDO OLIVA   30/4/2003	Subject: RAFF MUSIC IN ORIGINAL FILM SOUNDTRACK Message: Dear Friends, I hope somebody can answer to me this question: Is true that in the James Cameron´s Film "Titanic" (1997), the boat´s small orchestra play one Raff chamber theme?. If is affirmative: What? I try to read the end titles, but I can´t find it. Perhaps I dreamed, or is an "urban legend". Thanks for anticipate, Fernando.
Mark Thomas   30/4/2003	RE: RAFF MUSIC IN ORIGINAL FILM SOUNDTRACK IP: Logged Message: It's some time since I saw the film but I WOULD have recognised any Raff, I'm sure. I don't recall any Raff in the film. The band on the ship (a Piano Quintet, actually) had the Cavatine op.85 no.3 in its repertoire and there is a CD of I Salonisti playing it and other pieces which the Titanic's musicians played (Decca 458-382). The urban (naval?) legend is that they played the hymn "Nearer my God to Thee" as the ship sank. They do in the film, I believe, but apparantly it wasn't so. Or so said said my son who, at the time the film came out, seemed to know everything about the Titanic - probably even the names of all the passengers! Cheers