Intrada Soundtrack Forum

The main title to "Desiree" is a magnificent waltz written and conducted by Alfred Newman.

You can find a one-minute sampling here:

http://www.varesesarabande.com/details. ... 2D1036%2D2

From a filmus-l discussion of waltzes in 1996, then-member J.A. "Tony" Carty wrote:

"An absolute beauty, a gem, a treasure (is it Steiner's best?)
is Starwood from Band of Angels.

"Also, worthy of note are two Natasha's Waltzes:
Fifty-five days at Peking (Tiomkin)
War and Peace (Rota)

"Is Paris Burning (Jarre) is waltz-like.

"Slow and languorous and beautiful, perhaps too slow,
to be considered a waltz, but lovely nevertheless is
The Black Stallion (Coppola)."

From that same discussion series, member David Neumeyer (faculty, University of Indiana) compiled a listing of all the movie waltzes that had been offered:

A Little Princess Doyle Cristina Elisa Waltz
Age Of Innocence, The Bernstein
An Almost Perfect Affair Delerue
Anastasia A. Newman [Several Waltzes]
Angels And Insects Balanescu Waltz
Band Of Angels Steiner Starwood
Batman Elfman Dance Of Death
Batman Elfman The Jokers Dream
Black Stallion, The Coppola [Waltz??]
Boys from Brazil Goldsmith
Break Of Hearts Steiner Main Title
Cardinal, The Moross The Waltz In Vienna
Charge of the Light Brigade Steiner waltzes for ballroom scene
What Price Glory? Rapee Charmaine
Cinderella (tv) Rodgers Waltz For A Ball
Conformist, The Delerue The Conformist Waltz
Curly Sue Delerue
Dr. Zhivago Jarre
Day Of The Dolphin Delerue
Desiree A. Newman Overture
Diary Of Anne Frank, The Newman Date With Peter (title?)
Drowning By Numbers Nyman Sheep And Tides
Elephant Man, The John Morris The Elephant Man Theme
Elephant Man, The John Morris ballet music "Pantomime"
Emma Portman The Dance
Fifty-Five Days At Peking Tiomkin Natasha's Waltz
Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse Previn
Frantic Morricone Track "On The Roofs Of Paris."
Fury, The WIlliams Main Title
Gone With The Wind Steiner Atlanta Ballroom Scene
Grand Prix
Heart Is A Lonely Hunter, The Grusin [Waltz??]
Interlude Delerue
Is Paris Burning Jarre ["Paris Smiles"; "Waltz-Like"]
Jezebel Steiner The Jezebel Waltz
Jules And Jim Delerue
Lady of the Tropics (title?) Waxman waltz cue [re-used in Rebecca]
Last Metro, The Delerue
Legend Goldsmith The Dress Waltz
Legend Tangerine Dream The Dance
Leopard, The Rota A Waltz By Verdi
Leopard, The Rota Valzer Del Commiato"
Love At 20 Delerue
Madame Bovary Rozsa
Morning Glory Steiner Main Title
Murder On The Orient Express R. R. Bennett
Never Say Never Again Legrand [waltz or tango??]
Our Mother's House Delerue
Rebecca Waxman Original Waltzes (As Well As
Recycled Waltzes By Johann And Oscar Strauss)
Shadows Of The Empire Mcneely The Seduction Of Princess Leia
Ship Of Fools Gold several cues
Sisters, The Steiner
Six Days Six Nights Nyman Waltzing The Bird
Slipper and the Rose, The Sherman bros. The Slipper and the Rose Waltz
Snows Of Kilimanjaro, The Herrmann The Memory Waltz
So Big Steiner Selena's Waltz
Steel Magnolias Delerue
Tendre Poulet (Dear Detective) Delerue
Time after Time Rozsa Time Machine Waltz
War And Peace Rota Natasha's Waltz
Wild Rovers, The Goldsmith [Waltz??]
Witches of Eastwick, The Williams The Ballroom Scene (AKA
The Balloon Sequence)
Wuthering Heights Newman
[Japanese Toyota Commercial] Nyman Anohito No Waltz

Gee whiz, you guys missed what is IMO just about the best one....

Chris Young's THE VCA WALTZ from Flowers in the Attic.

Damn near perfection, that piece, not to mention perfectly positioned on the album.