RE: [F_minor] Something Old and Something Blue/Grey

["Houpt, Fred" <fred.houpt@rbc.com>]

On another "note" (sorry, I couldn't resist the pun, forgive me),
consider the possibility that Glenn's music making will go on forever.
Why?  Remember this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_Golden_Record ?
Well, for those who don't recall, NASA made sound recordings of many
types of human sounds and put it on a golden disc.  On this disc we have
this:
 
The Well-Tempered Clavier
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Well-Tempered_Clavier> , Book 2,
Prelude and Fugue No.1 in C major played by GG.  I thought about this
yesterday.  The spacecraft will take over 40,000 more years at it's
current speed to reach the vicinity of the closest star on its
trajectory.  However, it occurred to me that there was no certainty that
it would be stopped by or go into orbit around that star.  I realized
that it could continue on its journey throughout our galaxy and maybe
pop right out of our galaxy and drift to the next one and on and on.
Theoretically, it was possible for our human made calling card to go
forever on its way across the universe (sorry, I slipped in another
musical reference....that's what you get from my musical head).
 
And GG has good company on that golden disc.  How about Chuck Berry
belting out "Johnny B Goode" as well as the more sober tones led by the
late and sadly missed David Monrow and the Early Music Consort of
London. As well we have the 1'st movement of Beethoven's 5'th
(naturally) as well as the animalistic Rite of Spring.  One only can
imagine what sorts of shock value these recordings might have on some ET
in the future.  
 
Regards,
 
Fred Houpt
(must remember to make a pilgrimage to GG's grave site this summer)
 

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