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Date:  2:02:56 P.M., December 25, 2003
Name:  Tim
Email address:  DMTHUGHES@aol.com
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I played the music that accompanied the two SS skits you were looking for, so I was the one who got around searching on 12/21. I vaguely remember the fast paced music accompanying the kayak footage now. However, the first thing that came to mind when I read your first post about the slower piece of music with the glockenspiel and bassoon was this horrible quiet music they used for a slo-mo skit that sounded almost like what you had in question. The skit I'm thinking of had a blond kid wondering what things would be like moving in slow motion. It got me upset and frustrated at the same time. I should have just turned off the TV whenever they showed it. According to the Yesterdayland Sesame Street board, some girl who's apparently 31 now (it says she was born in '72) says the thought the music on the slo-mo skit was so scary and that she'd run into another room until the segment was over...I should've done just that. On the other hand, there was a flute playing in this slower piece of incidental music but on the other hand you must not be thinking of the slo-mo skit. When I accessed this first piece of music, my heart was beating so fast because I was hoping it wasn't the music for the slo-mo skit.


Date:  6:22:10 P.M., December 30, 2003
Name:  Phil
Email address:  phil-at-masstransfer-dot-net
Comments:  Wow! I'm not sure that I remember the slo-mo skit, but I find myself curious to hear the slow music you're talking about. I certainly know the feeling of being creeped out by things like that: there used to be a segment on Sesame Street, about 2-3 minutes long, that featured footage of a flower paired with the slow movement of a Vivaldi concerto. They'd show it fairly often, and for some reason, I found it incredibly creepy and disturbing, though I can't quite articulate why -- it was almost as though something awful was happening in the footage, even though as far as I can remember it was just showing water dripping off a flower. Phew. I also used to be afraid of the Dr. Who theme music, and of a skit on The Electric Company about an explosion ("X....explosion...").

(If anyone else is curious, this is the clip to which Tim refers, containing two pieces from Sesame Street [performed at my senior concert] about which I'm looking for more information, and/or the original recordings.)


Date:  5:23:20 P.M., December 31, 2003
Name:  Tim
Email address:  DMTHUGHES@aol.com
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Just one more bit for any of you on the slo-mo skit that I forgot to mention: At the end of the clip I still have in mind, the blond kid says "Some things are great just the way they are." (I can't believe I still remember those words years later!) Like things moving in regular motion as opposed to slow motion?


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