2001: A Space Odyssey (soundtrack) being the 1972 arrangement by Eumir Deodato (itself used in the 1979 film "Being There"). Both "Zarathustra" and "The Blue Danube" have been used in numerous parodies of both the film itself and science fiction/space travel stories in general. HAL's "Daisy Bell" also has been frequently used in the comedy industry to denote both humans and machines in an advanced stage of madness. The initial MGM soundtrack album release contained none of the material from the altered and uncredited rendition of "Aventures", used a different recording of "Also Sprach Zarathustra" than that heard in the film, and a longer excerpt
The Odyssey (Smith) it, with a modified ending in which the whole band brings the song to a roaring conclusion. The Odyssey (Smith) The Odyssey Symphony is Robert W. Smith's second symphonic band symphony. Smith had studied both the Odyssey and Dante's Divine Comedy at Troy University. The symphony contains, in total, four movements, each being noted for having intricate and imaginitive percussive and wind effects. They are as follows: Subtitled "...in the 10th Year of the Trojan War", this piece retells the story of the incredible victory of the Greeks against the Trojans, using the famous "Trojan Horse". The movement opens with