Clint Mansell – Lux Aeterna (Requiem for a Dream)
An evening pause: I normally don’t post performances recorded by only one camera, as the visuals can get boring. This performance, however, is an exception definitely worth viewing.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
This theme-song is becoming ubiquitous, but this particular performance strips all layers of previous cultural perception and demands that your ear dictate. Thank you, Mr. Zimmerman.
Theme song? What is this a theme song for? I am totally unaware of this.
Repetition is the hallmark of mediocrity. “New age” piano practitioners, almost without exception, are purveyors of the most god awful derivative dreck [that may not be a true word , but seems to fit perfectly].
To think we have gone from Chopin to this…
Robert, I found this write-up on Wikipedia. It seems that it is from a movie and has been used elsewhere, too.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lux_Aeterna_(song)