La-La Land to release 15-disc original series score set

Discussion in 'Star Trek - The Original & Animated Series' started by Harvey, Aug 11, 2012.

  1. Basill

    Basill Captain Captain

    Joined:
    Oct 30, 2004
    Location:
    TN
    Mine came! Awesome work, and my thanks to all the folks at La La Land!

    Time to go turn my brain into delicious music mush!
     
  2. Christopher

    Christopher Writer Admiral

    Joined:
    Mar 15, 2001
    Well, mine has departed the Santa Clarita, CA sort facility. Hopefully I'll get it Monday.
     
  3. TREK_GOD_1

    TREK_GOD_1 Vice Admiral Admiral

    Joined:
    May 24, 2006
    Location:
    Escaped from Delta Vega
    Great news! What a home run!!
     
  4. Warped9

    Warped9 Admiral Admiral

    Joined:
    Aug 3, 2003
    Location:
    Brockville, Ontario, Canada
    Here's a question (assuming this hasn't already been discussed). There were different versions of the main title theme at the beginning of the episodes. "The Cage" had one version and "Where No Man Has Gone Before" had a different and more electronic style version, both versions without narrative. The early episodes of the first season had a similar electronic style theme with the Kirk narrative and then later we got the more orchestral version with Kirk's narrative. In season two we got yet another version and the accompanying vocals seemed more prominent and yet they seemed to be less prominent again in the third season.

    So will we get the different versions?
     
  5. Christopher

    Christopher Writer Admiral

    Joined:
    Mar 15, 2001
    ^Read the track listings for yourself, as posed earlier in this thread or all in one place here. They list the different versions of the main title that are included in the set. In addition to the pilot versions, there's the "electric violin version" on Season 1, Disc 2, the Steiner-arranged "cello version" on S1D3, the 2006 re-recording of the cello version on S1D5, the "soprano version" on S2D1, an "enhanced stereo" version of same on S2D2, the 2006 soprano version on S2D5, the third-season stereo version conducted by Wilbur Hatch on S3D1, the mono version of same on S3D3, and the 2006 version of same on S3D5. Plus the corresponding versions of the end title on the same discs.

    As they've said, this set contains every single note of music written and recorded for TOS, including alternate versions -- save only "I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen" and the J. Peter Robinson substitute cues for "Goodnight, Sweetheart" from that '80s syndication release of "City on the Edge" that couldn't get the rights to the song.
     
  6. Warped9

    Warped9 Admiral Admiral

    Joined:
    Aug 3, 2003
    Location:
    Brockville, Ontario, Canada
    ^^ Thanks. This is a long thread and I haven't been able to follow everything discussed in it.
     
  7. OneBuckFilms

    OneBuckFilms Fleet Captain Fleet Captain

    Joined:
    Mar 7, 2008
    And what's more, Warped9, they all sound fantastic !!!
     
  8. Warped9

    Warped9 Admiral Admiral

    Joined:
    Aug 3, 2003
    Location:
    Brockville, Ontario, Canada
    Listening to those sample tracks again, each one instantly takes you to a familiar moment and feeling, Yeah, being a TOS fan they can call me biased, but no subsequent Trek series has ever had such powerful and evocative music. So much of it is simply fantastic. And it's never sounded so rich and substantial as now---I hear things I never knew were there before.
     
  9. Christopher

    Christopher Writer Admiral

    Joined:
    Mar 15, 2001
    I think the music in the first few episodes of TNG is in a very TOS-like style -- especially, of course, Fred Steiner's score to "Code of Honor," which is as gorgeous as anything he did for TOS. And there were some bits of brilliance later on in the other series, particular in Ron Jones's TNG scores and to some extent in Enterprise, by which point the strictures were relaxing and the music was able to get more expressive again.

    But yeah -- taking each series in the aggregate, TOS unquestionably had the lushest, most powerful music overall.
     
  10. Indysolo

    Indysolo Commodore Commodore

    Joined:
    Mar 19, 2001
    Location:
    Sunny California
    I give up.

    Neil
     
  11. Warped9

    Warped9 Admiral Admiral

    Joined:
    Aug 3, 2003
    Location:
    Brockville, Ontario, Canada
    Sorry, but I didn't catch everything in the thread. The question has already been answered.
     
  12. Tallguy

    Tallguy Rear Admiral Rear Admiral

    Joined:
    May 2, 2005
    Location:
    Beyond the Farthest Star
    Neil, that's hilarious!
     
  13. ATimson

    ATimson Rear Admiral Rear Admiral

    Joined:
    Jan 3, 2003
    Location:
    Andrew Timson
    Were the mono versions really different recordings/mixes, or were they just the stereo version downmixed for transmission? I would have expected the latter...
     
  14. Christopher

    Christopher Writer Admiral

    Joined:
    Mar 15, 2001
    ^I wouldn't know, but they're both included.
     
  15. BeatleJWOL

    BeatleJWOL Commodore Commodore

    Joined:
    Feb 21, 2012
    Location:
    Winston-Salem, NC
    I would think TV audio practices were still at a point where you'd have separate mono and stereo mixes for things recorded in stereo; same performance, different mix.
     
  16. Indysolo

    Indysolo Commodore Commodore

    Joined:
    Mar 19, 2001
    Location:
    Sunny California
    Season two's orchestra was recorded in mono with a separate overlay for vocal and woodwinds. This allowed us to remix it. Season three's main title was recorded to three track tape. We present remixes and mono versions of both to please purists and to present an alternate mix.

    Neil
     
  17. BeatleJWOL

    BeatleJWOL Commodore Commodore

    Joined:
    Feb 21, 2012
    Location:
    Winston-Salem, NC
    Very excellent! Shame the multitrack tape contents can't be released separately too... :p
     
  18. JimZipCode

    JimZipCode Commander Red Shirt

    Joined:
    Aug 13, 2010
    GOT IT!!!!

    :-)
     
  19. JimZipCode

    JimZipCode Commander Red Shirt

    Joined:
    Aug 13, 2010
    That was awesome, thanks for linking.

    Except for the part where they put up a picture of the very-much-alive Gerald Frield over the "Sol Kaplan 1919-1990" inscription.
     
  20. TREK_GOD_1

    TREK_GOD_1 Vice Admiral Admiral

    Joined:
    May 24, 2006
    Location:
    Escaped from Delta Vega
    Delivered today, and i'm listening to disc 1 right now!! Incredible music!!!