Vitamin String Quartet: The Music of Billie Eilish, Bridgerton and Beyond :: Houston, Texas :: Mar 3, 2026 Vitamin String Quartet: The Music of Billie Eilish, Bridgerton and Beyond in Houston, Texas on Mar 3, 2026 at 7:30 pm. Find tickets and more information here.

Vitamin String Quartet: The Music of Billie Eilish, Bridgerton and Beyond

Tuesday, March 3, 2026 at 7:30 pm
Jones Hall

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The grande finale! Today we're looking at the Canon in D Major by Johann Pachelbel, who (unknowingly) laid the basis for what seems to be half of the pop music songs. So let's go!

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The Hungarian Dance No. 5 by Brahms is not only suitable to dance on, as Charlie Chaplin demonstrates in a scene in The Great Dictator: you might as well shave a customer to its melody.

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The fifth symphony by Beethoven is famous, but in this particular cartoon the Pink Panther prefers a slightly more modern piece of music and tries everything to make the orchestra play it...

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Today the Goldberg Variations of Bach, which appear in several books - one of them being The Silence of the Lambs, in which Hannibal Lecter listens to them whilst killing the guards in prison.

"Dr. Lecter toyed with his food while he wrote and drew and doodled on his pad

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George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue was composed in 1924 and literally went skyhigh; since 1980, United Airlines has been using it as a sort of signature song - including in their safety videos.

Wayback Machine

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New technology seems to like classical music; with the introduction of Windows 3.0, there was a Midi recomposition of Spring from Vivaldi's Four Seasons in the jukebox. It can be heard here: web.archive.org/web/20200402...

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Classical music in a DJ set, and a complete crowd going wild over it? Basically that's what happened when Tiësto turned Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings into a dance track in 2004.

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Richard Strauss' Also Sprach Zarathustra was of course famously used in 2001: A Space Odyssey, but also in a slightly less flattering sense in a commercial for Pampers...

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The Die Hard action movies are maybe not the first place you would expect classical music in, but they do use it quite a lot; in the second, Finlandia of Jean Sibelius plays a big role, and in the first, it is the 9th Symphony of Beethoven (particularly the Ode to Joy).

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What do Neil Diamond and Mozart have to do with each other? Not much it seems, until you listen to Song Sung Blue and compare its melody to Piano Concerto No. 21; the one is clearly inspired by the other. www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6w0...

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The animation series of the Smurfs actually uses lots of classical music, but one of the themes that stands out is the use of Schubert's 8th Symphony. It is frequently heard, because it is the theme song of Gargamel. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Qs-...

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Although film scores can be regarded as classical music themselves, they also are inspired by classical music themselves. John Williams clearly listened to the Funeral March of Chopin when composing the Imperial March for Star Wars... youtu.be/hZY5DBmgC_A?...

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The holiday season classically also means: The Nutcracker of Tchaikovsky. For players of the NES version of Tetris, however, the Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies raises other memories, as it was used as the theme of Tetris. www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0YL...

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The default Nokia ringtone has become an icon in itself. But did you know it was composed in 1902? The short part appears in the Gran Vals of Francisco Tárrega, just a little after the introduction. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpeW...

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The progressive rock group Emerson, Lake & Palmer released their album Pictures at an Exhibition in 1971. The album is a rock adaptation of Modest Mussorgsky's piano suite and features an encore based on the Nutcracker by Tchaikovsky. www.youtube.com/watch?v=13q-...

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TV commercials are notoriously famous for using classical music to sell about everything. Cars have a special sub-section, which Renault took next level with their cars 'dancing' to Offenbach's Snowflake Ballet (from Le Voyage dans la Lune). www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgUf...

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The beauty of Air on the G String meets violence and cruelty in The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), when Karl Stromberg (the villain) feeds a traitor to his shark. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdJg...

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In the Muppet Show, Rowlf played quite some classical pieces, some with a bust of Beethoven on his piano. When playing Piano Sonata No. 8, "Pathétique", it is not particularly enthusiastic about the interpretation... www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9Ap...

The Band Concert - (1935, Restored) : Walt Disney : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive *Restored Disney Plus printCopyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for fair use for purposes such as criticism,...

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One of my favourite cartoons featuring Donald Duck is the Band Concert (1935), in which Mickey Mouse tries to conduct Rossini's Wilhelm Tell overture - which sounds easier than it actually is...
archive.org/details/the-...

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Today, the Netherlands celebrates Sinterklaas. One of the well known songs for Sinterklaas is 'Daar wordt aan de deur geklopt', which is sung to the melody of 'O du lieber Augustin'.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDS2...

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For years, the music of the Danse Macabre by Camille Saint-Saëns could be heard in the iconic Spookslot (ghost castle) in the Dutch theme park Efteling, which was one of my favourite attractions (starts in the video from 3:08). www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyQI...

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Eric Carmen released the song All By Myself in 1975, which was heavily inspired by the 2nd piano concerto of Rachmaninoff (1901). When Carmen wrote the song, the copyright of Rachmaninoff still was in place (and so he needed to pay for the use). www.youtube.com/watch?v=iN9C...

A panel from the comic TinTin, where Bianca Castafiore is singing "Ah! je ris de me voir si be-e-elle eh ce miroir" in front of an audience, accompanied by a piano.

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Bianca Castiafiore is probably one of the most famous opera singers in pop culture. In the comic TinTin, she is regularly seen (and heard) to perform the Jewel song from the opera Faust by Charles Gounod.

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My all-time favourite film is the Blues Brothers. And besides the music of Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles and James Brown, Richard Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries features in maybe the best scene of the film.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGu2...