Tilson Thomas conducting the San Francisco Symphony Vladimir Jurowski conducting the London Philharmonic Orchestra (recorded Royal Festival Hall, 19 March 2011) Leonard Slatkin conducting the Detroit Symphony Orchestra Georg Solti conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Marin Alsop conducting the Colorado Symphony In popular culture The opening fanfare is used in the introduction to the BBC tv series Ivanhoe 1970 A very brief part (1–2 seconds) of the last movement of Symphony No. 4 can be heard in the opening of Pink Floyd's song, "Wish You Were Here" (1975), taken from the album of the same name. It was recorded from a radio broadcast via a car radio. Symphony No. 4 is used as a soundtrack for Osamu Tezuka's experimental film "The Legend of the Forest" (1987). The film was not completed, only the first and fourth movement were finished. In 2014, Tezuka’s son Macoto Tezka (Black Jack, Akuemon) premiered Part 2, featuring the music from the second movement, at the 15th Hiroshima International Animation Festival. In the movie What a Way to Go! (1964), with Shirley MacLaine and Paul Newman, automatic painting robots strangle Newman as they paint to Tchaikovsky's 4th symphony and explode, killing him. In The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, the episode "The Day of Sagittarius" uses the finale of the Symphony No. 4 in the climax of the dramatic sequence of the SOS Brigade's battle with the Computer Research Society in the game The Day of Sagittarius III. The second movement is featured in Star Trek: Voyager episode "Counterpoint", in a scene between Captain Janeway and Devore inspector Kashyk. It is featured on the soundtrack of the 2014 film Birdman. References Cited sources Figes, Orlando, Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2002). (hc.). Keller, Hans: 'Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky', in Vol. I of 'The Symphony', ed. Robert Simpson (Harmondsworth, 1966). Maes, Francis, tr. Arnold J. Pomerans and Erica Pomerans, A History of Russian Music: From Kamarinskaya to Babi Yar (Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 2002). . Letter of Madame Nadeshda von Meck, paraphrased from The Symphonies of Brahms and Tschaikowsky in Score (New York: Bonanza Books, 1935). ISBN n/a. Slominsky, Nicolas, The Lexicon of Musical Invective. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1965). Steinberg, Michael, The Symphony (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1995). . Warrack, John, Tchaikovsky Symphonies and Concertos (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1969). Library of