[Nick Zwar]

Okay, that interval is used in other movies too (like the un-used TIMELINE), but the Klingon theme is very different in tone from the Wind and The Lion motif (which opens the score and is developed through).

I have listened to music most of my life, I became “serious” about it in my early teens and spent lots of money (well, lot of money for me) on first LPs and then CDs. I never “lost” my affection to a piece of music I enjoyed… STAR TREK-THE MOTION PICTURE and STAR WARS were the first film scores I ever got to listen to on soundtrack albums away from the film, and I never stopped enjoying them one bit.
I also enjoy textural scores, like Cliff Martinez SOLARIS (which I incidentally just listened to a couple of days ago), but it’s a completely different listen.
Different types of music demand a different “setting”. I remember conductor David Zinman saying in an interview, when his recording of Gorecky’s Third Symphony actually hit the charts, that it’s because of recording technology. No one would go to the concert hall to listen to a piece where nothing happens for 20 minutes, but at home, it unfolds its serenity. I tend to agree. For example, one of my all time favorite composers is Mahler, I have all of his symphonies and song cycles in various recordings and read several books about him and his music. Yet I don’t listen to Mahler all that often, because his music demand attention. You can’t listen to Mahler “on the side”, that’s annoying. His music unfolds like a movie where you can’t afford to miss a scene, or you’re out. SOLARIS, on the other hand, is like a warm “bath” of a score, you can just relax, perhaps talk a bit on the couch or browse the net or in a magazine. It doesn’t demand attention, it’s setting a mood. There’s of course lots of music in between.

Also, when I started out listening to music, I had certain composer as a starting point, like Wagner, Beethoven on the classical, and Williams, Goldsmith on the film music side. Some composers did not interest me that much right away, like Mozart or Bach or Vivaldi (I was in my early 30s when I first heard “The Four Seasons”, which was kinda a funny moment). Composers I liked right away were Stravinsky and even Schönberg, whereas it took me a long time to even pay attention to British composers such as Ralph Vaughan-Williams… today, I love his music a lot. So over time I grew and learned “more” music, but I never stoppend liking any piece of music, because not matter what, I always remember why I liked it in the first place.