Sad news for Trek fans - Sandy Courage & Joe Pevney...

[Book Lover]

http://www.filmmusicsociety.org/news_events/features/2008/052808.html

"Courage's eight-note brass signature for the Enterprise may be the single best-known fanfare in the world. When told that more people know it than know Aaron Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man, Courage – in his typically self-deprecating fashion – said that must surely be an exaggeration."


http://trekmovie.com/2008/05/25/tos-director-joseph-pevney-dies-at-96/

"Star Trek was hardly the only show on which he left a mark. He directed many other popular television programs, including Wagon Train, Bewitched, The Munsters, The Fugitive, Mission: Impossible, The Virginian, Bonanza, Emergency!, Fantasy Island, The Rockford Files, and Trapper John, M.D.… just to name a few! In a directing career spanning some 35 years, Pevney helmed over 35 films and hundreds of television episodes."

[kay1864]

1. RIP to two talented people

Sadly, Alexander Courage only made *half* of the royalties he should have from his iconic Star Trek theme, since Gene Roddenberry stole the other half.

Thank you for this post. I would not have known of their passing otherwise.

[Book Lover]

5. What Gene did was so wrong...

And those "lyrics" he wrote are so goddamned awful, to boot.

Did you know Courage was one of the founders of Composers and Lyricists Guild of America? He had such a full career.

[Book Lover]

2. kick

[Parche]

3. Great Director

[Book Lover]

6. Many good episodes of Trek and others...

but this is my personal favorite

[GreenPartyVoter]

4. :^( Sorry to hear that

[Book Lover]

7. another kick