Resistance is futile
August 29, 2008
by: Jenny Baxter- AWS percussionist
We played an arrangement this week from Star Trek: First Contact, the 1996 movie and one of the few I’ve actually seen, in which Capt. Jean-Luc Picard and crew must thwart the Borgs yet another time in order to save the human race and even the crew from Borg assimilation. This movie is unique in its abundance of human interaction, and the piece we’re playing has the most emotion and “human” element of our songs.
Something Patrick said this week stood out in my mind. He said that it was amazing how many variations on the same theme we play and how different each of them are. Despite my parents’ addiction to sci-fi, I could really never get into the episodes or movies more than occasionally, but now I hum the theme waiting for my bus and I actually want to watch some of the famous episodes to know what everyone else is talking around nachos at Applebee’s. Just more proof that music makes the movies.
