Xref: utzoo sci.space.shuttle:1302 rec.music.misc:17855 Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!husc6!rice!titan!phil From: phil@titan.rice.edu (William LeFebvre) Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle,rec.music.misc Subject: Re: Composer/musician to cover Shuttle mission under NASA Art Program (Forwarded) Message-ID: <1910@kalliope.rice.edu> Date: 25 Sep 88 18:17:13 GMT References: <15142@ames.arc.nasa.gov> <2242@ssc-vax.UUCP> <648@rtg.cme-durer.ARPA> Sender: usenet@rice.edu Reply-To: phil@Rice.edu (William LeFebvre) Organization: Rice University, Houston Lines: 36 In article <648@rtg.cme-durer.ARPA> warsaw@cme-durer.ARPA (Barry A. Warsaw) writes: >In article <2242@ssc-vax.UUCP> adolph@ssc-vax.UUCP (Mark C. Adolph) writes: > >>I believe that McNair was >>actually supposed to record the first saxophone solo in space to later >>be used on Jarre's album. Correct. >The name of the album is "Rendezvous" and the song is "Rendezvous VII >(Ron's Piece)"....liner notes mention >that the album is dedicated to the Challanger astronauts. He also played "Rendezvous" at the "Rendezvous--Houston" concert awhile back (summer of '86, I think, but definitely after 51-L). When he started "Ron's Piece", Jarre said something like "I'd like to dedicate this next song to my good friend Ron McNair." >Also >explains about how NcNair was supposed to record the solo in space and >how hard he'd worked on it. Even if the Challenger had been a successful flight, the recording would not have been made (as I understand it). McNair's first time up, NASA let him take his soprano saxophone (there's a great film clip from that flight of McNair playing his sax in orbit (zero-G? micro-gravity? whatever...)) but there wasn't enough room on 51-L for him take his sax a second time. So we still wait for the first music solo from orbit....or have the Russians already done that? William LeFebvre Department of Computer Science Rice UniversityP.S.: countdown starts at midnight!