Label: Prometheus Music
Category: Music
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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
UPC: 634479096327
EAN: 0634479096327
ASIN: B00019RDRI
Release Date: 2004-01-01
To Touch the Stars: A Musical Celebration of Space Exploration
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Label: Prometheus Music Category: Music Average customer rating:
Media: Audio CD Number Of Discs: 1 UPC: 634479096327 EAN: 0634479096327 ASIN: B00019RDRI Release Date: 2004-01-01 |
To Touch the Stars: A Musical Celebration of Space Exploration
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Meridiani Planum, Mars - February 14, 2004<BR> <BR> It's another cool, clear Mars morning, and the NASA Rover Opportunity is waking up to the majestic strains of "Pioneers of Mars". This song is from To Touch the Stars, the first-ever anthology CD of music celebrating space exploration. Capturing the attention of space enthusiasts worldwide, To Touch the Stars has garnered rave reviews from virtually every space-related publication on the planet.<BR> <BR> The brainchild of best-selling author Dr. Robert Zubrin (The Case For Mars) and Prometheus Music, the project grew from the winning entries in a space songwriting contest sponsored by Zubrin, then director of the National Space Society. Zubrin repeated the contest when he moved on to presidency of the Mars Society, with Pioneers of Mars taking top honors. The anthem is "a touching piece, wonderfully encapsulating both the rewards and risks inherent in outer space travel," says Science Fiction Weekly.<BR> <BR> Legendary Apollo astronaut Buzz Aldrin has endorsed the CD, quoting lyrics from the song "Fire in the Sky" in a nationally televised NBC interview after the Columbia tragedy. The album's sixteen tracks range from scientific to historic, whimsical to moving. It has found fans amongst schoolteachers and their students, planetarium directors, sci-fi fans, aerospace engineers, NASA leaders, and anyone whose heart yearns to break the surly bonds of gravity.<BR> <BR> To Touch the Stars has been featured as part of the official Centennial of Flight celebration, created by Congress to promote awareness of the Wright brothers' achievements and the 100th anniversary of powered flight. It placed in the Top 65 most aired albums on the January 2004 folk charts with airplay in the U.S., Canada, and Australia. Yuri's Night parties all over the world - celebrating the anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's first spaceflight - have used the CD as part of the evening's audio entertainment.Customer Reviews:
Songs and Space for Everyone.......2004-01-18
Most of the public still greets the phrase "space activism" as a non sequitur. You might as well say NASA-Industrial-Complex activism or Giant-Faceless-Aerospace-Industry activism. The assertion that there exists a genuinely passionate grassroots constituency for space exploration and development (and not made up of employees of NASA and its contractors) is still considered preposterous by many. The Moon Race proved, did it not, that it takes a gigantic army of government and industry engineers, scientists, technicians and bureaucrats to send a handful of supermen to the Moon via a ridiculously expensive and impractical rocket system? How can any regular Joe or Joan relate to all that?
Who would possibly want to sing about all that?
Well, activists saw long ago that "space is not an agency", that space travel and development don't have to be astronomically expensive, and that someday, in a future already underway, anyone who really wants to go to space WILL get the opportunity to go.
The people who see this most clearly are the artists on this album. They see past the temporary technological obstacles to a marvelously exciting but difficult frontier that will eventually give way to the blossoming of life throughout the solar system.
So what do these artists sing about?
They sing of the glory and sacrifice on the frontier ("Fire in the Sky" and "Legends")
They sing about traveling in space themselves ("I Want to Go To Mars" and "Big Blue Sky")
They sing of the joy and fun of space flight ("Dance on the Ceiling" and "Dog on the Moon")
They sing of looking at space in new ways ("If We Had No Moon" and "Others Standing By").
They sing of the disappointment that we rushed forward and then pulled back ("Queen Isabella, Where Are You" and "Hope Eyrie")
And this diverse array of artists offers songs in many different styles. There's definitely something here for everyone.
Whether you are a space enthusiast or not, you will enjoy this album. Great music that transcends genres comes from artists genuinely inspired by their passion. Take a chance. If you do, you won't regret it. In fact, you might just be inspired to help us get to Mars!
To Touch The Stars.......2004-01-09
The stories that filk songs tell are for the most part stories of hope and adventure and challenge -- stories worth telling -- and this CD tells the best of them.
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Dialogue ~ Bobby Hutcherson, Bobby Hutcherson
Child King Dictator Fool ~ Great Circle Saxophone Quartet
The Optimist ~ Gerard Presencer