Its construct is that of a lush and eloquent waltz, which flows with a carefree old world charm. His primary theme is the Travel Theme whose classic Golden Age sensibility animates the film. He responded by providing a multiplicity of themes and nationalistic anthems that fully captured the film’s many and diverse settings. He quickly realized that the three-hour film covered a huge swath across the globe and that his music needed to speak to the ethno-cultural sensibilities of the various locals. Veteran studio composer Victor Young was assigned the project. The film was both a commercial and critical success, being nominated for eight Academy Awards and winning five for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Cinematography and Best Score. He wins both the wager and the hand of his love, Princess Aouda, thus bringing our adventure to a most satisfying conclusion. Fogg realizes that he gained a day by crossing the International Date Line and manages to reach the Club just before the clock’s chime at 8:45 pm. Yet the tables are turned when he learns to his dismay that the real criminal was already caught in Brighton! Although exonerated of the charges, Fogg believes he has missed the deadline and lost the wager until Passepartout buys a newspaper and sees that it is still Saturday.
However, with victory finally in his grasp Fogg is arrested upon his arrival at Liverpool by the relentless Inspector Fix. Our journey takes us to Spain, where Passepartout engages in a comic bullfight, to Egypt, then India where Fogg and Passepartout rescue young widow Princess Aouda from certain death at her husband’s funeral pyre, to exotic Thailand, then to Hong Kong, Japan, San Francisco, and the wild American west where they battle Sioux Indians. Against this backdrop is a growing suspicion that Fogg has stolen £55,000 from the Bank of England, which elicits Scotland Yard to dispatch Police Inspector Fix to arrest Fogg. Fogg sets off on the first leg of their journey to Paris by hot air balloon. He offers a £20,000 wager with four skeptical compatriots of the Reform Club, thus setting the stage for the adventure. Fogg makes the audacious claim that he can circumnavigate the world in eighty days. The story takes place in England circa 1872 and centers on an epic adventure taken by Phileas Fogg and his man servant Passepartout. He gave the director reigns to Michael Anderson who brought in an amazing cast which included David Niven as the classic Victorian English gentleman Phileas Fogg, Mexican icon Cantinflas as the resourceful ‘Jack of all Trades’ Passepartout, Shirley MacLaine as the captivating Princess Aouda, her debut acting role, and Robert Newton as the redoubtable Inspector Fix. He hired screenwriter James Poe to adapt renowned author Jules Verne’s novel Around the World in 80 Days. That sort of intimacy befits his music.Ever-ambitious producer Mike Todd sought to bring an epic adventure tale to the big screen.
In the background there’s chopped wood, fruit and olive trees a cat relaxes and chickens cluck past. In one YouTube video, Baba sits in what appears to be his own yard, singing a poem by Turkish poet and Sufi mystic Yunus Emre, who lived during the 13th century. He plays the cura, a long-necked lute, and his warbling voice softly accompanies it.
Ozgür Baba’s Turkish folk music is arresting in its simplicity. Habana, aptly named after his home country’s capital, epitomises the exhilarating nature of Cuban jazz. It was his friend the saxophonist Paquito D’Rivera who encouraged him to record music again and, soon enough, Valdés – now in his seventies – began winning global accolades, including two Grammys. After enjoying great success in the 1940s and 1950s, he defected to Sweden during Cuba’s revolution and lived an obscure life for decades. Cuban jazz pianist and bandleader Bebo Valdés’ story is an amazing one.
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