(American Thinker) Edvard Grieg’s masterpiece, In the Hall of the Mountain King, is truly ageless. Created in service to famed Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen for his magnum opus, Peer Gynt, the music is now used as the background sound for many a meme — the accelerando really sets the stage for a climactic crescendo.
To this day, one of my favorite videos to emerge in the wake of President Trump’s glorious 2016 victory used Grieg’s composition — it started slowly, with all the most recognized members of the mockingbird media avowing that Trump would never win, deriding him, promising him campaign checks…. Then the music began to pick up, and CNN’s Wolf Blitzer is shown, repeatedly announcing every new state that Trump took. Finally, it ends with a smirking Trump in the Oval Office, next to a clearly irate Obama. — it was glorious.-- More...
