Composer Alexander Courage dies - Entertainment News, TV News, Media - Variety

Composer Alexander Courage dies - Entertainment News, TV News, Media - Variety: "Alexander (Sandy) Courage, composer of the original 'Star Trek' theme and an Emmy-winning, Oscar-nominated arranger for TV and movies, died May 15 in Pacific Palisades, Calif. He was 88 and had been in declining health since 2005.
Courage's fanfare for the Starship Enterprise, written in 1965 for the first of two 'Star Trek' pilots, was heard throughout the three original seasons of the show and has been reprised throughout all the 'Trek' feature films and several of the TV series, notably 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' in the 1980s and '90s."