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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)
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Date: 25 Sep 88 18:17:13 GMT
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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 University
			

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