Theme music - what?
Can anybody tell me what the theme music during the opening credits and elsewhere in the show(s) is based on?
I want to say Jean Sibelius, perhaps "Finlandia", but I'm not sure.
Anybody?
A great deal of the music from FLASH GORDON CONQUERS THE UNIVERSE comes from Franz Liszt's LES PRELUDES. The music from the first two films, FLASH GORDON, and FLASH GORDON'S TRIP TO MARS, is Universal Studios stock music...owing a great deal to the Waxman score from BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN
JS
There is a whole website devoted to all the Flash Gordon music. Every music cue in every episode is documented. Here's the link
flashgordon.homestead.com