Rocketship X-M [SEP] narrative location
series of unforeseen events, winds up traveling instead to distant Mars. Once on the Red Planet, its crew discovers the remnants of a Martian civilization destroyed long ago by atomic war and now reverted to barbarism.
Plot.
Four men and a woman blast into outer space from the White Sands Proving Ground aboard the RX-M (Rocketship Expedition-Moon) on humanity's first expedition to Luna. Halfway there, after surviving their jettisoned and runaway first stage and a meteoroid storm, their engines suddenly quit. Recalculating
- "Sequoia" for flute, oboe, and strings (1970, Final Opus)
His soundtrack to the 1950 science fiction film "Rocketship X-M" included the use of the theremin. Grofe's score for this film was released in 2012 on compact disc by Monstrous Movie Music, #MMM1965. His monumental "Grand Canyon Suite" is his best known work, a masterpiece in orchestration and evocation of mood and location.
Since 2010, the scores "Requiem for a Ghost Town", the ballet