Passport to the Universe [Soundtrack]

Track Listings

1. Walk In

2. Boot Up

3. Zeiss Sky

4. Cosmic Address

5. Orion Nebula

6. Pull Back from Our Galaxy

7. Virgo Super Cluster

8. Black Hole Plunge

9. Cosmic Dust

10. Return to Earth

Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com
Featuring music originally composed for New York City's Hayden Planetarium, Passport to the Universe performs multiple functions. At the exhibit hall, it's a three-dimensional soundscape enabling visitors to be aurally transported through space; on disc, it's 10 tracks of inventive compositions from composer Stephen Endelman. Though the composer's previous work has been far less complex--he created the scores for films Jeffrey and Jawbreaker--here he pays homage to classical composers such as Holst and Britten. Even if Endelman wears these influences on his sleeve, the results are impressive. The composer creates a nonstop sonic journey (everything from the launch of "Boot Up" to the reentry at "Return to Earth") that incorporates electronic instruments, string orchestrations, and even the occasional rock beat. Whether you're a fan of modern classical music, soundtracks, or just speaker-shaking sonics, there's something here for you. --Jason Verlinde

Tracks:

Walk In
Boot Up
Zeiss Sky
Cosmic Address
Orion Nebula
Pull Back from Our Galaxy
Virgo Super Cluster
Black Hole Plunge
Cosmic Dust
Return to Earth

Amazon.com

Featuring music originally composed for New York City's Hayden Planetarium, Passport to the Universe performs multiple functions. At the exhibit hall, it's a three-dimensional soundscape enabling visitors to be aurally transported through space; on disc, it's 10 tracks of inventive compositions from composer Stephen Endelman. Though the composer's previous work has been far less complex--he created the scores for films Jeffrey and Jawbreaker--here he pays homage to classical composers such as Holst and Britten. Even if Endelman wears these influences on his sleeve, the results are impressive. The composer creates a nonstop sonic journey (everything from the launch of "Boot Up" to the reentry at "Return to Earth") that incorporates electronic instruments, string orchestrations, and even the occasional rock beat. Whether you're a fan of modern classical music, soundtracks, or just speaker-shaking sonics, there's something here for you. --Jason Verlinde

Customer Reviews:

A soundtrack, yes........2000-10-23

This music is certainly appropriate for a planetarium full of people who wouldn't think twice about the commercial nature of it. For that it deserve three stars. Otherwise, it's nothing spectacularly original or especially beautiful. In simply listening to it, without a space show, I can't help but feel that I am missing something. I was sorely disappointed with this cd. It was recommended to me based on other artists I listen to, but as with most recommendatons, it missed the target.

Stirring Soundtrack for New Planetarium's Debut Sky Show.......2000-05-25

Stephen Endelman's "Passport" ably backs the American Museum of Natural History's new planetarium's first sky show, in which, it is explained, we are all starstuff and citizens of the universe.

I'm unable to separate music from message or from the truly and literally stellar visuals. From the stirring opening, as we wait to enter the new Rose sphere and see pictures of Mars ("oh, that's MARS," a bunch of us said as if we were homesick), to the excitement as the new projector rises in fumes that look like dry ice, to the wonder and mystery as we expand past the boundaries of the galaxy, of the local group of galaxies, and out to the frontiers of the observable universe, and then to plunge into a wormhole and return home, Endelman's muted trumpets, syncopated soft tones, with a rushing undercurrent of music that makes one wonder if micrometeorites and stellar currents are impacting on the hull of one's starship, don't miss a beat, figuratively or literally.

I don't think I blinked through the entire presentation and, on leaving, marched down to the Planetarium's giftshop because I HAD to have the CD.

No, I don't work for the AMNH, but I'd be less than a good citizen of the galaxy (Heinlein pun is deliberate) if I didn't tell you that a portion of the proceeds from this CD go to support the research and educational proceeds of an extraordinary institution.

Do yourself and your culture a favor: see the show. Listen to the music. It makes you want to go out...thataway.

Track Listings:

Track Listings

track listings

Track Listings

Kick in Your Heart [EP]

Ombra Mai Fu; Pachelbel Canon

Pepper in My Shoe!

Jammin' with Herbie

The Yes Story [Import]

Part III

Play Melancholy Baby [Import] [Limited Edition]

Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante, K.364/Violin Concertos Nos. 2 & 3

Soul Sex: Wrestling the Angel/Versatile

Pleasures of the Night

Red Devil Dawn

Live & Unplugged at the Chapel [Limited Edition] [Live] [Import]

Move Your Body, Pt. 2 [CD-single] [Import]

A Mighty Fortress / Instrumental Hymns

Reunion

1. Walk In
2. Boot Up
3. Zeiss Sky
4. Cosmic Address
5. Orion Nebula
6. Pull Back from Our Galaxy
7. Virgo Super Cluster
8. Black Hole Plunge
9. Cosmic Dust
10. Return to Earth