ADDED: I've found it here and have clipped to the discussion of the montage seen as the musicians come together and play "Nearer My God to Thee" as the ship sinks:
June 22, 2023
"A fictionalized version of the Strauses’ story was immortalized in pop culture by the director James Cameron, whose 1997 film about the disaster features a poignant shot of an older couple embracing in bed as the waters rise around their cabin."
From "Submersible Pilot’s Spouse Is Descended From a Famous Titanic Couple/Wendy Rush is a great-great-granddaughter of the retailing magnate Isidor Straus and his wife, Ida, two of the wealthiest people to die aboard the ocean liner" (NYT).
Sorry for the voiceover there. Was the band "instructed to play soothing music" or did the violinist decide on his own to play a hymn and thereby inspire other musicians to join him (which is much more affecting!)?
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Never liked the movie.
My "Frankenstein, Part II" is 100x better.
I have the odd feeling that no one will much be embracing on the Titan.
In The Night Lives On, a sequel to his book A Night to Remember, Walter Lord totally debunks the story of the band launching into “Nearer My God to Thee.” A survivor recollected that the band played “Autumn.” The tune “Autumn” is one of the arrangements for that hymn, but according to hymnologists those same lyrics are set to a different tune in England, where the band members were from. The most likely hypothesis is that the band was playing “Songe d'Autmone,” a then-popular dance tune.
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I always loved the Titanic love story. The old lady is on her deathbed and all she can think about is the homeless dude she screwed for 2 days 70 years ago and let draw her naked instead of her husband and children. She then takes a priceless jewelry and drops in the ocean. Women think this is a great love story and so do I. Honest.
The fictional bad guy had an evil minion/manservant of exceptional skills and they got seats on a lifeboat. So where were the maids, butlers, valets, etc., travelling with the very wealthy Strauses?
Also, there was room for a skinny guy on that floating debris, along with the gal.
Three years later and Covid19 continues to cut promising lives short. Sad!
The Coast Guard just announced that an ROV has found “a debris field” within the search area near the Titanic. It’s not clear what they still have to do to confirm that it’s from the Titan submersible. Unfortunate, but not unexpected. However it does suggest that the end came fast.
Strauss is an interesting story. When the family first came to the US, they settled in Columbus, GA, and later moved to the small town of Talbotton, where they opened a store. To this day they are considered the little town's most famous residents.
Isidor tried to enter the Confederate army, but was too young. He went to London, where he served as a purchasing agent and bond salesman for the Confederate government. After the war, he relocated to New York. Strauss started out selling crockery in the basement of R. H. Macy's, store, but before the turn of the century he and a brother bought him out but kept the Macy name.
Considering this event now will bring his name back to the attention of the public, and his close ties to the Confederacy possibly come to light, how long before he is cancelled?
April 15, 1912?
They were not brave heroes who went down with the ship so that others might live.
They were greedy rich people avoiding the first income tax!
Ask Joe Biden, he was there.
Evidence found suggesting implosion. It would have been over so fast.
Coast Guard reports a debris field has been located by an Remote Operated Vehicle, not far from the Titanic's bow section, consistent with catastrophic failure.
Gay-Lussac's Law: P1/T1 = P2/T2. Cabin pressure before implosion (P1) was say 15 psi (about 1 atm). Cabin temperature before implosion (T1) was say 75 F.
Cabin pressure after implosion (P2) was 6000 psi (400 atm). Cabin temperature after implosion (T2) was...
Wait for it...
213,000 F.
They never knew what hit them
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