Star Trek and Music
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That scenario happened twice since I've been living here. There was no advance warning from the apartment complex, I'm disabled without a car, so I couldn't really get away from it. Fortunately the tenants and manager we had then are now gone. They took over the entire commons area with tables, chairs, the band, even an inflatable tent for kids to jump around in.
I recently moved from a shared flat in a city in a smaller town. My new accommodation is thankfully calm. I don´t have to tolerate foreign students who sleep the whole day and party in the night. That´s not what I remember from my studies. Playing instruments? No one is interested. Everybody sticks to his/her smartphone. We (my fellow students and I) used to sit around, playing guitar and singing songs, having a meal, drinking cola or beer and so on. I miss these times.
When I first moved here, it was mostly Hispanics. Then the cooling system went out in the middle of summer one year for 2 weeks, and this is Arizona, where it can hit 120F. Nearly killed me, a lot of people moved out. The state eventually got involved. Now it's mostly refugees from Nepal. Yeah, it's a hellhole. The Nepalese are very nice, and quiet.
As I live in Germany, I had to look up in a chart that converts F into degrees Celsius. That are close to 50 degrees Celsius. Wow! And the Germans complain when there is 36 degrees C, which isn´t often.
Back to topic: Brent Spiner sang Blue Skies in Nemesis, a great moment.
He was apparently also proficient enough at piano to sight-read a piece that not just he, but NOBODY else in the universe had ever seen...except for Flint.
Also a secret piano player; just good enough to accompany the four-armed keyboardist in "Unification" (pretty sure Frakes only knows the trombone, of course)
Just to cut off the haters...
"singing". In case anybody's unaware:
[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lul-Y8vSr0I&t=0m47s[/yt]
That said, "Has Been" is a pretty fab record:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLg5_wcdn25Vy9yo4NOeHoFCtFqiWBA-Fi
Speaking of actual singing, let's not forget Brent Spiner:
[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mO1sVRSj7bs[/yt]
(with, uh, a few special guests)
Trekmovie covered a few more real world instances of Trekmusic:
http://trekmovie.com/2008/02/24/the-collective-star-tracks-trek-stars-sing/
Probably not, but the music of Star Trek itself has always been my thing. My collection as it stood a few years ago:
And every note of TOS music (La La Land box set) plus the Royal Philharmonic re-recordings:
Getting there with mine:
I also have the Music of Star Trek book, as well as the TMP soundtrack release with "Inside Star Trek".
I also have the Music of Star Trek book, as well as the TMP soundtrack release with "Inside Star Trek".
Well, I have the Nemesis soundtrack in digital form. Like BeatleJWOL, my primary focus is on music from the "Classic Cast" era. Once these expanded, complete CDs were safely on my shelf, and the LLL box set of course, I started feeling a sense of completion:
I'd say my favorite music from the Spin-Off Era is "Suite from the Inner Light" by Jay Chattaway (on GNP's Best of Star Trek: 30th Anniversary Special CD), and Goldsmith's First Contact film score.
Yeah, I thought First Contact for the film soundtracks was a good place to stop, with the whole 1966-1996 history there.
Plus I'm not paying stupid amounts of money for the 2009 film's "expanded" soundtrack if it's not complete.
Plus I'm not paying stupid amounts of money for the 2009 film's "expanded" soundtrack if it's not complete.
I have both editions of the ST 2009 soundtrack, and it turned out that the older, single-disk version was all I needed for listening pleasure. I just keep the expansion as a collector.
What are these other traditions?
Classical is huge and seems to pop up any time a society has the money for the instruments.
Most if not all other styles of music lack the footprint for this.
What makes classical so huge isn't the writing, but the fact that it requires and includes a large number of instruments and players. No other style can be basically the same with so many different combinations.
Klingon Opera? Vulcan chants, aside from that we don't know of many other races as well.
I thought about buying that when it came out but his song choices, from the 1930s and 40s, didn't exactly electrify me. I don't know if I made a mistake, but I skipped it.
I did snap up James Darren's "Vic Fontaine" CD the instant it came out. That was more my speed: hip easy listening from 1960s, which I can totally dig. You can see it in the photo I posted upthread.
Well, I think it IS the writing, harmonic and structural theories that were developed more than in any other kind of music, allowing the creation of large, complex pieces integrated by rigorous internal structures. But yes, the way instruments were actively refined and developed to create the unique sound possibilities we now know is also a big part of it.
(Huge classical fan in case it wasn't obvious
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I don't but I'm sure it's out there. I did find a video on Youtube that contains the whole thing if you want a listen.
Would make for a nice twofer with Seth MacFarlane's recent album...
Probably not, but the music of Star Trek itself has always been my thing. My collection as it stood a few years ago:
And every note of TOS music (La La Land box set) plus the Royal Philharmonic re-recordings:
Getting there with mine:
I also have the Music of Star Trek book, as well as the TMP soundtrack release with "Inside Star Trek".
I am so jealous! Well done, Gentlemen...Well done, Indeed!
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