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** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ir8FnLF_9Q&fmt=18 Nutcracker, anyone?]
* Ophelia's Mad Scene from ''[[Hamlet]]'' by Ambroise Thomas. Thirteen minutes long, incredibly difficult, and incredibly haunting.
* Modern classical, but classical still: composer Christopher Tin of the Video Games example Baba Yetu, has recently released [https://web.archive.org/web/20120504064903/http://www.christophertin.com/callingalldawns.html an album] called "Calling All Dawns." This album can basically be described as more than an hour of Crowning Music of Awesome. A song cycle depicting day, night, and dawn, it is made up of 12 songs (including an epic reorchestration of Baba Yetu itself). Each song is sung in a different language, each segues smoothly into the next, sometimes with no break, and the album ends on the same sequence of notes with which it began. And it is stirringly, [[Tear Jerker|tear-jerkingly]] beautiful.
** Special CMuOA mention goes to "Rassemblons-Nous" (Let Us Gather), which from the title sounds like it would be some type of Kumbaya song, but in French. Instead, it's a techno-backed anthem about [[Screw Destiny|giving destiny the finger]], building a [[La Résistance]] against death itself, and pure, unmitigated AWESOME.
** "Kia Hora Te Marino" needs a mention too. Sung in Maori, it would make for a great anthem for peace. More or less, it's a powerful ending to an incredible album.
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