Hearts of Space #900 Cinematronic (01-29-2010) +Covers, Tracklist

Ambient
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Classical/Electronic/World-fusion Film Music
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This is the weekly one-hour music program from Hearts of Space Radio Show for the weekend of January 29, 2010.
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Program Highlights by Stephen Hill, Producer:
And it has come to pass in the year two thousand ten, dear spacefans, that we reach another numeric waypoint in our journey together. For our 900th program special, we bring you music that fulfils what one of our artists calls "the quest for the acoustics of emotion beyond any cultural or geographic limits." On this transmission of Hearts of Space, we consider the mainstream of popular film music today: a muscular, melodic ambient fusion of classical, electronic, and ethnic "world music."
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Our story starts in the 19th century with DEBUSSY, who broke through the conventions of classical orchestration with impressionistic sound paintings like "The Engulfed Cathedral." We're hearing an electronic version by Japanese musician TOMITA from 1974. Then, almost 100 years ago in Paris, 1913, Russian composer IGOR STRAVINSKY's music for the ballet The Rite of Spring famously caused a riot at its premiere. It was too early for electronic instruments, but his scandalous combination of the symphony orchestra with primal dissonances and intense "pagan" rhythms set the stage for what has become the music of epic movies today.
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The pivotal figure in the development of this style of film score was Greek composer VANGELIS. Beginning with CHARIOTS OF FIRE in 1981, he extended "pagan classical" into "symphonic electronica" — merging synthesizers, rock and ethnic rhythms, and Greek folk melodies. And from there, dear space fan, you can draw a straight line to JAMES HORNER'S music for AVATAR.
On this 900th transmission of HEARTS of SPACE...a program called CINEMATRONIC.
This hour of song has been split to MP3s at 320 kBp/s. Enoy, and please remember to SEED!
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