Snow Prince lyrics. "Snow Prince" is a choral song inspired by Claude Debussy's "Clair de lune", or the third movement of the "Suite bergamasque". The piece "Clair de lune" is also featured in the film. The "Snow Prince Gasshōdan" group is a temporary boy choir that was formed specially for this movie, and it is led by actor Shintaro Morimoto. The group comes under the management of Johnny Jr., a Japanese talent agency that specially trains male idols. "Snow Prince Gasshōdan" is made up of 10 boys, who together, had an average age of 10.5 years at the time of the filming.
Choses vues à droite et à gauche (sans lunettes) aside, Satie was painstaking in his efforts to redevelop these old musical forms in modern terms, harmonically and structurally. He rejected the first movement he completed, an untitled 31-bar chorale in G Major, and experimented with several fugue subjects (including a quotation of the folksong "Au clair de la lune") for the "Fugue à tâtons". In his analysis of Satie's composing methods Robert Orledge remarked on "how ordinary his first thoughts often were", and this certainly applies to the "Choses vues". Satie's original order for the pieces - "Fantaisie", "Choral", "Fugue" - would have given the suite a conventional fast-slow-fast