Ivory-Filtered Shake

CBC Radio Music Commissions presents Compose Yourself

This is so silly I can't resist:

A competition to remix Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries.

I've never liked this tune's pompous strut, though Bill and I used it in our own leitmotif "Nordic Weedhunters", perhaps the most enjoyable short we made during film school. There's something undeniably cinematic about Wagner, especially in Valkyries near the bridge and climax. I can hear E.T. and Star Wars in there.

Anyway, I'm gonna give it the old college try and see how much abuse Wagner can take. Thanks to Amanda for the keyboard that'll let me actually play notes with my composing software now instead of drawing them, to Martin for letting me know of the contest, and to Nanagram for the title of this post. Other anagrams for "Ride of the Valkyries" that were runners-up:

veiled freak history
tires forked heavily
forsake, thrive, yield
flaky diver theories
festive, leaky, horrid
fried, stroke heavily
fever strike holiday

I invite other audio nerds to enter as well! HO JO TO HO!