I thought it was Pavarati ... ;-).
I loved that book and the film was done quite well. I hate to say it, but Alec Baldwin would have been a great Jack Ryan in subsequent films (I didn’t like Harrison Ford or Ben Affleck though I didn’t dislike the Chris Pine one).
For some stupid reason, I still crack up at the line “Come on big D, fly ... “ ... Hopefully we are dropping enough sonar bouys so that a man can walk from Alaska to Russia without getting his feet wet :-).
“I thought it was Pavarotti ... “
It was Paganini. Pavarotti is a tenor, Paganini was a composer. :-)