I received this private message from Pete Foltz this morning (which I am sharing with his permission):
“Ok – the best soundtrack for circling the moon? Entrance of the Gods into Valhalla? Or Pink Floyd?”
Anyone?
Astronauts have taken a lot of music to space over the years. Here’s a post I wrote about Rusty Schweickart, who took Vaughan Williams and Alan Hovhaness, before it was cool, on Apollo 9.
https://www.facebook.com/classicrossamico/posts/pfbid0zHUr5KgGEPdnJ5H7ABpitYA3wcTNiaG3qf7dBXRSjBieKmGb583kaVuzbAjt4HVPl
What composers or pieces of music would be on your mixtape? Rusty’s sounds pretty good to me.
Fly Me to the Moon: Your Choice of Heavenly Music
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30 responses to “Fly Me to the Moon: Your Choice of Heavenly Music”
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Adorei conhecer seu blog, tem muito artigos bem interessantes. resultado da loteria do sonho de hoje
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I first considered Franz Liszt “Les Preludes” – but thought better of it..
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Pete Foltz Life as a series of preludes and all that. I see your point.
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Classic Ross Amico i have to put one up here for Brother Roy: https://youtu.be/eX5EbnlVV6E?si=r_bj_rnj1-xRrG2m.
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Classic Ross Amico space 1999 intro..
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Pete Foltz It was only a matter of time… 😄
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Classic Ross Amico come to think of it, there are lots of Preludes; but where are the References or Footnotes???? Maybe I can convince Kile to write Acknowledgements???? Has to better than John Luther Adams’ Vespers of the Blessed Earth
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Pete Foltzhopefully season 1!
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Kenneth Hutchins No “Fly Me to the Moon,” Ken? 😉
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Classic Ross Amico Too obvious… and as Sinatra said on one of his TV specials “weren’t they surprised when I got there two days before they did.”
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“Jupiter, The Bringer of Jollity”
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Ligeti’s Requiem and Lux Aeterna, Kubrick’s brilliant choices for 2001: A Space Odyssey. They capture the eeriness and mysteriousness of the moon perfectly. When I first saw the film in 1968, those musical selections and images hit me with a wallop and opened me up to modern music. Maybe followed up by Strauss’ The Blue Danube Waltz to capture its majesty, even though Kubrick used that for another scene. I’m always willing to follow a good curator. 🙂
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Mather Pfeiffenberger Ligeti is definitely someone I thought of… thanks to Kubrick!
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BEAU SOIR by Claude Debussy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13qUO6OF6Bk
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Scott Marshall Never heard it for chorus before!
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Ives “Unanswered Question” and 4th Symphony.
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Ha, easy, the last movement from The Consolation of Apollo!
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Kile Smith I’d thought of it! It came up when searching some of my old posts. I believe it was to coincide with Artemis I that it was performed in Trenton in 2022.
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I’m actually partial to this song… it’s know as Moon Love.
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Kenneth Hutchins Tchaikovsky!
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Sanctus from Fauré’s Requiem.
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Byron Adams Elegant choice! (BTW – Listened to Howard Ferguson’s Piano Sonata today, a recording of which I actually found in a pile on my desk!)
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Gotecki Symphony no. 3. 2nd movement.
Jenkins Benedictus
And from the newage (sic) canon, Enya Aldebaran.
And please, God, bless us all in this horrific time. -
Siegfried finale duet, “Heil, dir Sonne”l
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SW Paul Mack Act III of “Siegfried” will certainly give you plenty of time to get around the moon.
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La Legende d’Eer by Xenakis.
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Angelo Bello Xenakis, the only composer who can actually be heard in space…
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Holst—Planets
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I really like Pink Floyd. I would not chose Dark Side of the Moon though. Shine On You Crazy Diamond would be more appropriate aesthetically wise I think.
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