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New York Post
25-05-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Post
Here's why live concert of ‘Blue Danube' is being broadcast into deep space: ‘Cosmic mistake'
Johann Strauss' 'Blue Danube' will be beamed into space this month to commemorate the Austrian composer's 200th birthday — and to correct the 'cosmic mistake' of being left out of previous inter-stellar broadcasts, according to officials. Strauss' 1866 waltz — which famously played over spinning space stations and satellites in the opening of Stanley Kubrick's seminal 1968 sci-fi epic '2001: A Space Odyssey' — will be performed by the Vienna Symphony Orchestra on May 31 while being simultaneously radioed into the stars from the European Space Agency's (ESA) big antenna dish in Spain. The broadcast will also coincide with the 50th anniversary of the ESA's founding in 1975. 'Blue Danube' was famously featured in one of the opening scenes of Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey' MGM 'Music connects us all through time and space in a very particular way,' said ESA director general Josef Aschbacher. 'The European Space Agency is pleased to share the stage with Johann Strauss II and open the imaginations of future space scientists and explorers who may one day journey to the anthem of space.' 'Blue Danube' will be beamed in the direction of Voyager 1, a deep-space probe launched in 1977 that carried a golden record inscribed with songs and sounds from Earth — including a selection of music ranging from Mozart to Chuck Berry, but notably did not include the Strauss' famously cosmic tune. The broadcast this weekend is intended to correct that oversight, according to Vienna's tourist board, which added that 'the most famous of all waltzes' was headed for its rightful home. Strauss' waltz will travel through the cosmos at the speed of light, meaning it will catch up with Voyager 1 — currently more than 15 billion miles from Earth — in about 23 hours. Johann Strauss' music made waltzes the famous dance they are today Getty Images The song will also blast past the moon in 1.5 seconds, Mars in 4.5 minutes, Jupiter in 37 minutes, and Neptune in four hours. 'Blue Danube' is just the latest song to be officially sent into the stars. In 2008, NASA celebrated its 50th anniversary by beaming the Beatles' 'Across the Universe' into interstellar space. And last year, NASA broadcast Missy Elliott's 'The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)' into space. Numerous songs have also been played back and forth between NASA crews in space and mission control since manned missions began in the 1960s, and in 2012 'Reach for the Stars' was played back and forth between Earth and rovers on Mars. The recording of 'Blue Danube' broadcast into space Saturday will not be from the live performance played at the same time, but will be from a rehearsal recorded the night before to avoid technical problems. Strauss was born on Oct. 25, 1825, and became known as the 'Waltz King' for a body of compositions that made the dance style one of the most predominant of his century. With Post wires.
The Advertiser
25-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Advertiser
Strauss' Blue Danube waltz is launching into space
Johann Strauss' Blue Danube will be beamed into the cosmos to mark the 200th anniversary of the waltz king's birth. The Vienna Symphony Orchestra will perform the classical piece. The celestial send-off on May 31 — livestreamed with free public screenings in Vienna, Madrid and New York — also will celebrate the European Space Agency's founding 50 years ago. Although the music could be converted into radio signals in real time, according to officials, ESA will relay a pre-recorded version from the orchestra's rehearsal the day before to avoid technical issues. The radio signals will hurtle away at the speed of light, or a mind-blowing more than one billion km/h. That will put the music past the moon in 1.5 seconds, past Mars in 4.5 minutes, past Jupiter in 37 minutes and past Neptune in four hours. Within 23 hours, the signals will be as far from Earth as NASA's Voyager 1, the world's most distant spacecraft, at more than 24 billion kilometres in interstellar space. NASA also celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2008 by transmitting a song directly into deep space: the Beatles' Across the Universe. And last year, NASA beamed up Missy Elliott's The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly) toward Venus. Music has even flowed from another planet to Earth — courtesy of a NASA Mars rover. Flight controllers at California's Jet Propulsion Laboratory sent a recording of Reach for the Stars to Curiosity in 2012 and the rover relayed it back. These are all deep-space transmissions as opposed to the melodies streaming between NASA's Mission Control and orbiting crews since the mid-1960s. Now it's Strauss' turn, after getting passed over for the Voyager Golden Records nearly a half-century ago. Launched in 1977, NASA's twin Voyagers 1 and 2 each carry a gold-plated copper phonograph record, along with a stylus and playing instructions for anyone or anything out there. The records contain sounds and images of Earth as well as 90 minutes of music. The late astronomer Carl Sagan led the committee that chose Bach, Beethoven, Mozart and Stravinsky pieces, along with modern and indigenous selections. Among those skipped was Johann Strauss II, whose Blue Danube graced Stanley Kubrick's 1968 sci-fi opus 2001: A Space Odyssey. The tourist board in Vienna, where Strauss was born on October 25, 1825, said it aims to correct this "cosmic mistake" by sending the "the most famous of all waltzes" to its destined home among the stars. ESA's big radio antenna in Spain, part of the space agency's deep-space network, will do the honours. "Music connects us all through time and space in a very particular way," ESA's director general Josef Aschbacher said. Johann Strauss' Blue Danube will be beamed into the cosmos to mark the 200th anniversary of the waltz king's birth. The Vienna Symphony Orchestra will perform the classical piece. The celestial send-off on May 31 — livestreamed with free public screenings in Vienna, Madrid and New York — also will celebrate the European Space Agency's founding 50 years ago. Although the music could be converted into radio signals in real time, according to officials, ESA will relay a pre-recorded version from the orchestra's rehearsal the day before to avoid technical issues. The radio signals will hurtle away at the speed of light, or a mind-blowing more than one billion km/h. That will put the music past the moon in 1.5 seconds, past Mars in 4.5 minutes, past Jupiter in 37 minutes and past Neptune in four hours. Within 23 hours, the signals will be as far from Earth as NASA's Voyager 1, the world's most distant spacecraft, at more than 24 billion kilometres in interstellar space. NASA also celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2008 by transmitting a song directly into deep space: the Beatles' Across the Universe. And last year, NASA beamed up Missy Elliott's The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly) toward Venus. Music has even flowed from another planet to Earth — courtesy of a NASA Mars rover. Flight controllers at California's Jet Propulsion Laboratory sent a recording of Reach for the Stars to Curiosity in 2012 and the rover relayed it back. These are all deep-space transmissions as opposed to the melodies streaming between NASA's Mission Control and orbiting crews since the mid-1960s. Now it's Strauss' turn, after getting passed over for the Voyager Golden Records nearly a half-century ago. Launched in 1977, NASA's twin Voyagers 1 and 2 each carry a gold-plated copper phonograph record, along with a stylus and playing instructions for anyone or anything out there. The records contain sounds and images of Earth as well as 90 minutes of music. The late astronomer Carl Sagan led the committee that chose Bach, Beethoven, Mozart and Stravinsky pieces, along with modern and indigenous selections. Among those skipped was Johann Strauss II, whose Blue Danube graced Stanley Kubrick's 1968 sci-fi opus 2001: A Space Odyssey. The tourist board in Vienna, where Strauss was born on October 25, 1825, said it aims to correct this "cosmic mistake" by sending the "the most famous of all waltzes" to its destined home among the stars. ESA's big radio antenna in Spain, part of the space agency's deep-space network, will do the honours. "Music connects us all through time and space in a very particular way," ESA's director general Josef Aschbacher said. Johann Strauss' Blue Danube will be beamed into the cosmos to mark the 200th anniversary of the waltz king's birth. The Vienna Symphony Orchestra will perform the classical piece. The celestial send-off on May 31 — livestreamed with free public screenings in Vienna, Madrid and New York — also will celebrate the European Space Agency's founding 50 years ago. Although the music could be converted into radio signals in real time, according to officials, ESA will relay a pre-recorded version from the orchestra's rehearsal the day before to avoid technical issues. The radio signals will hurtle away at the speed of light, or a mind-blowing more than one billion km/h. That will put the music past the moon in 1.5 seconds, past Mars in 4.5 minutes, past Jupiter in 37 minutes and past Neptune in four hours. Within 23 hours, the signals will be as far from Earth as NASA's Voyager 1, the world's most distant spacecraft, at more than 24 billion kilometres in interstellar space. NASA also celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2008 by transmitting a song directly into deep space: the Beatles' Across the Universe. And last year, NASA beamed up Missy Elliott's The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly) toward Venus. Music has even flowed from another planet to Earth — courtesy of a NASA Mars rover. Flight controllers at California's Jet Propulsion Laboratory sent a recording of Reach for the Stars to Curiosity in 2012 and the rover relayed it back. These are all deep-space transmissions as opposed to the melodies streaming between NASA's Mission Control and orbiting crews since the mid-1960s. Now it's Strauss' turn, after getting passed over for the Voyager Golden Records nearly a half-century ago. Launched in 1977, NASA's twin Voyagers 1 and 2 each carry a gold-plated copper phonograph record, along with a stylus and playing instructions for anyone or anything out there. The records contain sounds and images of Earth as well as 90 minutes of music. The late astronomer Carl Sagan led the committee that chose Bach, Beethoven, Mozart and Stravinsky pieces, along with modern and indigenous selections. Among those skipped was Johann Strauss II, whose Blue Danube graced Stanley Kubrick's 1968 sci-fi opus 2001: A Space Odyssey. The tourist board in Vienna, where Strauss was born on October 25, 1825, said it aims to correct this "cosmic mistake" by sending the "the most famous of all waltzes" to its destined home among the stars. ESA's big radio antenna in Spain, part of the space agency's deep-space network, will do the honours. "Music connects us all through time and space in a very particular way," ESA's director general Josef Aschbacher said. Johann Strauss' Blue Danube will be beamed into the cosmos to mark the 200th anniversary of the waltz king's birth. The Vienna Symphony Orchestra will perform the classical piece. The celestial send-off on May 31 — livestreamed with free public screenings in Vienna, Madrid and New York — also will celebrate the European Space Agency's founding 50 years ago. Although the music could be converted into radio signals in real time, according to officials, ESA will relay a pre-recorded version from the orchestra's rehearsal the day before to avoid technical issues. The radio signals will hurtle away at the speed of light, or a mind-blowing more than one billion km/h. That will put the music past the moon in 1.5 seconds, past Mars in 4.5 minutes, past Jupiter in 37 minutes and past Neptune in four hours. Within 23 hours, the signals will be as far from Earth as NASA's Voyager 1, the world's most distant spacecraft, at more than 24 billion kilometres in interstellar space. NASA also celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2008 by transmitting a song directly into deep space: the Beatles' Across the Universe. And last year, NASA beamed up Missy Elliott's The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly) toward Venus. Music has even flowed from another planet to Earth — courtesy of a NASA Mars rover. Flight controllers at California's Jet Propulsion Laboratory sent a recording of Reach for the Stars to Curiosity in 2012 and the rover relayed it back. These are all deep-space transmissions as opposed to the melodies streaming between NASA's Mission Control and orbiting crews since the mid-1960s. Now it's Strauss' turn, after getting passed over for the Voyager Golden Records nearly a half-century ago. Launched in 1977, NASA's twin Voyagers 1 and 2 each carry a gold-plated copper phonograph record, along with a stylus and playing instructions for anyone or anything out there. The records contain sounds and images of Earth as well as 90 minutes of music. The late astronomer Carl Sagan led the committee that chose Bach, Beethoven, Mozart and Stravinsky pieces, along with modern and indigenous selections. Among those skipped was Johann Strauss II, whose Blue Danube graced Stanley Kubrick's 1968 sci-fi opus 2001: A Space Odyssey. The tourist board in Vienna, where Strauss was born on October 25, 1825, said it aims to correct this "cosmic mistake" by sending the "the most famous of all waltzes" to its destined home among the stars. ESA's big radio antenna in Spain, part of the space agency's deep-space network, will do the honours. "Music connects us all through time and space in a very particular way," ESA's director general Josef Aschbacher said.
West Australian
25-05-2025
- Entertainment
- West Australian
Strauss' Blue Danube waltz is launching into space
Johann Strauss' Blue Danube will be beamed into the cosmos to mark the 200th anniversary of the waltz king's birth. The Vienna Symphony Orchestra will perform the classical piece. The celestial send-off on May 31 — livestreamed with free public screenings in Vienna, Madrid and New York — also will celebrate the European Space Agency's founding 50 years ago. Although the music could be converted into radio signals in real time, according to officials, ESA will relay a pre-recorded version from the orchestra's rehearsal the day before to avoid technical issues. The radio signals will hurtle away at the speed of light, or a mind-blowing more than one billion km/h. That will put the music past the moon in 1.5 seconds, past Mars in 4.5 minutes, past Jupiter in 37 minutes and past Neptune in four hours. Within 23 hours, the signals will be as far from Earth as NASA's Voyager 1, the world's most distant spacecraft, at more than 24 billion kilometres in interstellar space. NASA also celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2008 by transmitting a song directly into deep space: the Beatles' Across the Universe. And last year, NASA beamed up Missy Elliott's The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly) toward Venus. Music has even flowed from another planet to Earth — courtesy of a NASA Mars rover. Flight controllers at California's Jet Propulsion Laboratory sent a recording of Reach for the Stars to Curiosity in 2012 and the rover relayed it back. These are all deep-space transmissions as opposed to the melodies streaming between NASA's Mission Control and orbiting crews since the mid-1960s. Now it's Strauss' turn, after getting passed over for the Voyager Golden Records nearly a half-century ago. Launched in 1977, NASA's twin Voyagers 1 and 2 each carry a gold-plated copper phonograph record, along with a stylus and playing instructions for anyone or anything out there. The records contain sounds and images of Earth as well as 90 minutes of music. The late astronomer Carl Sagan led the committee that chose Bach, Beethoven, Mozart and Stravinsky pieces, along with modern and indigenous selections. Among those skipped was Johann Strauss II, whose Blue Danube graced Stanley Kubrick's 1968 sci-fi opus 2001: A Space Odyssey. The tourist board in Vienna, where Strauss was born on October 25, 1825, said it aims to correct this "cosmic mistake" by sending the "the most famous of all waltzes" to its destined home among the stars. ESA's big radio antenna in Spain, part of the space agency's deep-space network, will do the honours. "Music connects us all through time and space in a very particular way," ESA's director general Josef Aschbacher said.
Perth Now
25-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
Strauss' Blue Danube waltz is launching into space
Johann Strauss' Blue Danube will be beamed into the cosmos to mark the 200th anniversary of the waltz king's birth. The Vienna Symphony Orchestra will perform the classical piece. The celestial send-off on May 31 — livestreamed with free public screenings in Vienna, Madrid and New York — also will celebrate the European Space Agency's founding 50 years ago. Although the music could be converted into radio signals in real time, according to officials, ESA will relay a pre-recorded version from the orchestra's rehearsal the day before to avoid technical issues. The radio signals will hurtle away at the speed of light, or a mind-blowing more than one billion km/h. That will put the music past the moon in 1.5 seconds, past Mars in 4.5 minutes, past Jupiter in 37 minutes and past Neptune in four hours. Within 23 hours, the signals will be as far from Earth as NASA's Voyager 1, the world's most distant spacecraft, at more than 24 billion kilometres in interstellar space. NASA also celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2008 by transmitting a song directly into deep space: the Beatles' Across the Universe. And last year, NASA beamed up Missy Elliott's The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly) toward Venus. Music has even flowed from another planet to Earth — courtesy of a NASA Mars rover. Flight controllers at California's Jet Propulsion Laboratory sent a recording of Reach for the Stars to Curiosity in 2012 and the rover relayed it back. These are all deep-space transmissions as opposed to the melodies streaming between NASA's Mission Control and orbiting crews since the mid-1960s. Now it's Strauss' turn, after getting passed over for the Voyager Golden Records nearly a half-century ago. Launched in 1977, NASA's twin Voyagers 1 and 2 each carry a gold-plated copper phonograph record, along with a stylus and playing instructions for anyone or anything out there. The records contain sounds and images of Earth as well as 90 minutes of music. The late astronomer Carl Sagan led the committee that chose Bach, Beethoven, Mozart and Stravinsky pieces, along with modern and indigenous selections. Among those skipped was Johann Strauss II, whose Blue Danube graced Stanley Kubrick's 1968 sci-fi opus 2001: A Space Odyssey. The tourist board in Vienna, where Strauss was born on October 25, 1825, said it aims to correct this "cosmic mistake" by sending the "the most famous of all waltzes" to its destined home among the stars. ESA's big radio antenna in Spain, part of the space agency's deep-space network, will do the honours. "Music connects us all through time and space in a very particular way," ESA's director general Josef Aschbacher said.
Yahoo
10-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Strauss' 'The Blue Danube' to waltz into interstellar space on May 31
The Vienna Philharmonic is to play Johann Strauss' "The Blue Danube" in the Austrian capital on May 31, with the concert transmitted to the Voyager 1 probe in interstellar space. The Deep Space Antenna of the European Space Agency (ESA) in Spain will transmit the famous tune, Norbert Kettner, head of Vienna Tourism, said on Monday. The orchestra is to play the piece in the city's Museum for Applied Art (MAK). When it was launched in 1977, the probe carried 27 recordings of music by composers including Bach, Beethoven and Mozart, but not Strauss' waltz, which has become an unofficial theme tune for space following Stanley Kubrick's sci-fi film "2001: A Space Odyssey." Voyager 1 has on board a gold-plated audio-visual disc that includes photographs and information on the Earth, as well as various recordings, including music. This was done in case the probe is ever found by alien civilizations. The event is part of a Vienna Tourism campaign marking Strauss' 200th birthday this year. The ESA celebrates the 50th anniversary of its founding on May 31. Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 are now around 25 billion kilometres away from Earth and well beyond our solar system. The signal is expected to take around 23 hours to reach Voyager 1. Whether the signal can be picked up elsewhere depends on the technical abilities of any civilizations receiving it, organizers said. Anyone wishing to participate symbolically in the trip can sponsor one of the 13,743 notes free of charge.
