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Current Events => Breaking News => Topic started by: bijou on May 30, 2008, 02:01:29 PM
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Alexander "Sandy" Courage, an Emmy-winning and Academy Award-nominated arranger, orchestrator and composer who created the otherworldly theme for the classic "Star Trek" TV show, has died. He was 88.
Courage died May 15 at the Sunrise assisted-living facility in Pacific Palisades, his stepdaughter Renata Pompelli of Los Angeles, said Thursday. He had been in poor health for three years.
Over a decades-long career, Courage collaborated on dozens of movies and orchestrated some of the greatest musicals of the 1950s and 1960s, including "My Fair Lady," "Hello, Dolly!" "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers," "Gigi," "Porgy and Bess" and "Fiddler on the Roof."
But his most famous work is undoubtedly the "Star Trek" theme, which he composed, arranged and conducted in a week in 1965.
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link (http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5h_N1ULe8EZnF0aGnr_5mqkjDzFKAD90VJIT00)
Another Star Trek related death. RIP.
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[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdjL8WXjlGI[/youtube]
The original
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5YCACHWO4Y[/youtube]
Remastered Version
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RIP Mr. Courage
Psst... watch every Star Trek episode for free over here (http://www.cbs.com/classics/).