![]() ![]() Edvard Grieg’s In the Hall of the Mountain King, dripping with tension and no small measure of mischief, plays as Barbie confronts the villain in a final showdown. The most common markings on Barbie dolls include '©1966', 'Mattel, Inc.' and the name of the country where the doll was made. Haydn’s Surprise Symphony also makes an appearance, as well as Sergei Prokofiev’s Classical Symphony. The stamped date is actually the copyright date of a particular kind of doll body. ![]() It’s a story that really shouldn’t be marketed towards children, but any concerns about questionable plot points tends to ease away while watching Barbie ice skate flawlessly to Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony. In 2005, Barbie and the Magic of Pegasus loosely rips its plot, but not its music, from Béla Bartók's creepy opera, Bluebeard’s Castle. ![]() Barbie of Swan Lake (2003) sees a return to Tchaikovsky’s ballets, although no swans were harmed in the making of this movie, and Odette and her Prince do get to live happily ever after. Over the course of my formative girlhood years, Mattel released seven Barbie movies featuring classical music in their scores. In anticipation of Greta Gerwig's Barbie, releasing July 21, I've been thinking a lot about the impact the original movies had on my youth. ![]()
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