Aria Supply.Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" set extraterrestrial travel to the sounds of Strauss' "The Blue Danube Blue Danube can refer to the following:
Tito, an L.A. Opera board member since 1995, took a selection of opera CDs with him when he blasted off April 28 aboard a Russian rocket for a 10-day trip to the International Space Station (for which he paid $20 million). Among his composers of choice were Puccini, Mozart, Verdi and Wagner. Tito consulted with the L.A. Opera's artistic department to have just the right cross-section of opera selections, said Opera spokesman Gary Murphy Gary Murphy (born October 15, 1972 in Kilkenny) is an Irish golfer. Career Murphy began golfing at age 11, after caddieing for his father Jim. He won the Irish Amateur Closed Championship in 1992 and would go on to turn pro in 1995. . And, of course, he couldn't go up on a Russian rocket without Tchaikovsky, Murphy said. "When you think about opera in space, and you think about what Kubrick did with that piece ("The Blue Danube"), and you think about what a powerful image that he created -- I think Dennis is reliving that image." |
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