This playlist consists of some pieces featured in the Songbooks of the White Star Line to be played by the orchestra aboard their ships, most notably the R.M.S. Titanic, which sank overnight between April 14th and 15th, A.D. 1912.
Other songs played aboard the R.M.S. Titanic are also featured here.
Other songs played aboard the R.M.S. Titanic are also featured here.
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Autumn (Barthélémon, 1797)
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Composed by François-Hippolyte Barthélémon in 1797 as a tune for his revision of ‘Hail Thou Once-Despised Jesus’, adding two stanzas, the tune gained unexpected fame centuries later when certain survivors of the sinking of the ‘Titanic’ contested against the majority of survivors saying they heard 'Nearer My God to Thee', instead claiming that they heard the band playing 'Autumn' as the last hymn. This opinion was largely buried until 1955, when Walter Lord vouched for Harold Bride, in his famed non-fiction novel 'A Night to Remember', who claimed to have heard the band playing 'Autumn'.
In 1956, the Kraft Television Theatre adapted Walter Lord's novel on Live television, with 28 Million people watching the broadcast and being acclaimed by critics. Their adaptation was faithful to Lord's novel and featured the band playing 'Autumn' as the last song as in the book. With 28 Million people watching, the opinion gained much momentum, and was again used as the final song the band played in the 1979 made-for-TV special 'S.O.S. Titanic'.
The opinion that this was the last song the band played was quickly buried again in the 1990s with the release of CBS TV Special ‘Titanic’ and James Cameron's blockbuster 'Titanic', and 'Autumn' was forgotten. It didn't help that Walter Lord published 'The Night Lives On' in 1986 and changed his opinion from the hymn tune 'Autumn' to a popular waltz, 'Songe d'Automne'.
Modern research points to 'Nearer My God to Thee' having been the last song (specifically, the ‘Propior Deo’ tune), yet there are still accounts that 'Autumn' was the last song. This is not contradiction, but rather means that both were played back-to-back, as 1st Class Passenger Helen Candee recalled: "...And over them trembled the last strains of the orchestra's message: 'Autumn' first, then 'Nearer My God to Thee."
In 1956, the Kraft Television Theatre adapted Walter Lord's novel on Live television, with 28 Million people watching the broadcast and being acclaimed by critics. Their adaptation was faithful to Lord's novel and featured the band playing 'Autumn' as the last song as in the book. With 28 Million people watching, the opinion gained much momentum, and was again used as the final song the band played in the 1979 made-for-TV special 'S.O.S. Titanic'.
The opinion that this was the last song the band played was quickly buried again in the 1990s with the release of CBS TV Special ‘Titanic’ and James Cameron's blockbuster 'Titanic', and 'Autumn' was forgotten. It didn't help that Walter Lord published 'The Night Lives On' in 1986 and changed his opinion from the hymn tune 'Autumn' to a popular waltz, 'Songe d'Automne'.
Modern research points to 'Nearer My God to Thee' having been the last song (specifically, the ‘Propior Deo’ tune), yet there are still accounts that 'Autumn' was the last song. This is not contradiction, but rather means that both were played back-to-back, as 1st Class Passenger Helen Candee recalled: "...And over them trembled the last strains of the orchestra's message: 'Autumn' first, then 'Nearer My God to Thee."
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