Thursday, February 27, 2014

Something for Thursday

Neil DeGrasse Tyson's revisit of Carl Sagan's seminal Cosmos arrives in just a couple weeks. One of the finest aspects of the original show was its music, carefully selected to form almost its own version of the Voyager record. Here are a few selections of the Cosmos music!














That last work is the first movement of Shostakovich's Symphony No. 1, by the way. And this site seems to be an exhaustive "track listing" for each episode of Cosmos. Hard to read, but useful.

The Cosmos is all that is, or ever was, or ever will be.

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