22)ДЄccording to producer Harve Bennett, ' Paramount's most nervousness concerned the bagpipes.' In explaining his choice of the piece, he recalled a funeral he attended for a close friend вЂ“ a British government official вЂ“ the year prior to his involvement in Star Trek. It was, perhaps, a slight miscalculation, but it's one of those things that you're not going to know if it works until you do it with an audience.' ( Starlog #63, October 1982, p. I had this strange chord that hangs over the whole scene it did quite a bit, but doesn't solve the problem completely, because you still get people laughing at the bagpipes. It starts where there's a pause as Kirk's talking вЂ“ 'Of all the people I have met in my travels, he is the most Human. The only thing I could do about the curse of the bagpipes was put in a cue. Now had a problem in the previews with people laughing at the sound. What you heard in the film originally was just the bagpipe alone. He continues, ' The bagpipes were the wrong move. It had already been shot, and I had to match it,' Horner explains, ' Then I had the additional problem: Would I continue the bagpipe music outside the ship or would I switch to orchestral music? My feeling was to do something very ethereal.' They all seemed to feel that 'Amazing Grace' was the only thing to make them happy. ' I never wanted to use it I begged, begged, 'Please don't make me use 'Amazing Grace.' It was the only battle in the film I lost. 'Amazing Grace' was written by the English clergyman John Newton in 1779 and became a bagpipe standard.ДЇilm composer James Horner had concerns with the use of 'Amazing Grace', which he considered the major musical problem of the film. The instrumental version was played on bagpipes by Commander Montgomery Scott at Captain Spock's funeral aboard the USS Enterprise in 2285. ' Amazing Grace' was a hymn originally written for Christian services on Earth, which later became associated with funerals.

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