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Home | Soundtracks | Motion Pictures | Star Trek: Nemesis |
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Music published by Ensign Music Corporation (BMI). * Contains "Theme from Star Trek: The TV Series" composed by Alexander Courage, published by Bruin Music Company (BMI). ** Contains "Theme from Star Trek: The Motion Picture" composed by Jerry Goldsmith, published by Ensign Music Corporation (BMI). ***Contains "Blue Skies" composed by Irving Berlin, published by Irvin Berlin Music Co. (ASCAP). |
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Continuing Voyages There have been many wonderful composers who have supplied music for the continuing voyages of the Starship Enterprise. Special mention must certainly me made of Alexander Courage, whose Star Trek Fanfare ushers virtually every entrance to Gene Roddenberry's universe. But when it comes to music for Star Trek, Jerry Goldsmith rules the galaxy. Goldsmith's sound and themes have become Star Trek's vernacular. Star Trek Nemesis is the composer's fifth feature film score for the franchise (Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Star Trek: The Final Frontier, Star Trek: First Contact and Star Trek: Insurrection being, of course, the other four) and his themes have been used for both Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Voyager. Without question, Star Trek Nemesis presents some of the finest music of the entire series. It's a powerful, even thunderous action score which also displays ingeniously dark textures in the chilling music which enshrouds Captain Picard's nemesis, Shinzon. A wonderful characteristic of this new score is hear in the fleeting but impactful glances astern…glimmers of themes and motifs from journey's past. Among these is a brief few bars which, in essence, bring Goldsmiths music for Star Trek full circle, revisiting the material he wrote for the very first theatrical glimpse of the Enterprise 23 years ago! After so many years, scoring a new Star Trek adventure amounts to a kind of homecoming for the composer. In the case of Star Trek Nemesis this feeling was heightened all the more in that it reunited Goldsmith with director Stuart Baird. Goldsmith has not only scored Baird's previous films as director (Executive Decision and U.S. Marshals) but also The Omen, on which Baird had, in 1976, served as film editor and for which the composer received an Academy Award. In recording his new score, Jerry Goldsmith assembled much the same production team he has worked with on dozens of other pictures—in fact, many of the musicians who performed it have been with the maestro for decades. During sessions which took place on the Paramount Pictures lot on August 13–15, 28 and a few final days in September, the legendary composer's latest score was greeted with applause, and awe as the musicians themselves, and all those lucky enough to be in attendance, became the first audience to hear the latest themes and epic cues which now join one of the most extraordinary bodies of work any composer has ever created for a single film series. That Goldsmith continues to produce such scores with energy and enthusiasm—and as frequently as he does—remains a source of joy for his fans the world over. — Robert Townson |
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