Alexander Courage Dead at 88

Television, Movies Games and Books Star Trek
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http://www.filmmusicsociety.org/news_events/features/2008/052808.html

The creator of the iconic theme from Star Trek is dead at age 88.

“Courage’s eight-note brass signature for the Enterprise may be the single best-known fanfare in the world. When told that more people know it than know Aaron Copland’s Fanfare for the Common Man, Courage – in his typically self-deprecating fashion – said that must surely be an exaggeration.”

That’s humility for ya.

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Yeah I read that earlier today.

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The man certainly moved millions of people with his music.

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Wow. Listening to that just know…I hadn’t realized how deeply that opening theme music was embedded into my DNA.
RIP Mr. Courage.

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There’s a nice page up at the Film Music Society.

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RIP Mr Courage. Man, those eight notes say so much, don’t they ? Absolutely immortal.