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''To the Stars'' is an album by American jazz fusion group the Chick Corea Elektric Band, released on August 24, 2004 by Stretch Records. Jazz musician Chick Corea, a longtime member of the Church of Scientology, was inspired by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard's science fiction 1954 novel ''To the Stars''. Hubbard's book tells the story of an interstellar crew which experiences the effects of time dilation due to traveling at near light speed. A few days experienced by the ship's crew could amount to hundreds of years for their friends and family back on Earth. Corea was influenced in particular by a scene from Hubbard's work where one of the main characters plays the piano, and he created the album as a tone poem piece. It was the first time members of his group Chick Corea Elektric Band had gotten together since 1991. Scientology-owned Galaxy Press reissued the book at the same time as the album's release as a form of cross-marketing. Corea later produced another album, ''The Ultimate Adventure'', also inspired by and named after a work by Hubbard. The album received mostly positive reviews. Christopher Blagg of the ''Boston Herald'' commented: "Somewhere L. Ron Hubbard was smiling," and Mike Hobart of the ''Financial Times'' described the album as "a fine programme of jazz-fusion". It reached number eight on the U.S. Top Contemporary Jazz charts in September 2004, and garnered Corea a 2004 Grammy Award nomination for instrumental arrangement for the track "The Long Passage". ==Inspiration== (詳細はlight speed slows down time experienced for its occupants.〔 The ship's members are affected by Albert Einstein's time dilation theory, and the Earth experiences hundreds of years while only a few days have passed for members of the ship. The crew have no family or friends on Earth due to the time that separates them.〔 Of the album's 17 tracks, 10 are directly based on characters or concepts from the book.〔 The protagonist of the book (scientist Alan Corday), the ship's captain (Captain Jocelyn), and the ship's name (''Hound of Heaven'') are all titles of tracks on the album.〔 The other seven tracks are "Port Views", short musical interludes between the larger pieces.〔 Corea explains at his website how he was motivated to work on music inspired by ''To the Stars'', commenting that he was inspired by a scene from the book in which Hubbard describes the Captain of the spaceship in the story playing a melody on a piano. He had read the book eight or nine times, and after writing down musical composition based on Hubbard's work the album was created as a tone poem piece.〔 Previous tone poem albums by Corea include ''The Leprechaun'' (1975), ''My Spanish Heart'' (1976), and ''The Mad Hatter'' (1978).〔 The piece is Corea's first attempt at musical interpretation from one of Hubbard's works.〔 "The attraction to me was not only the challenge of writing music portraying characters in a fiction book but the fact that I've had such an intimate connection with L. Ron Hubbard and his work in Scientology for 40 years now. I've been a fan of his fiction for 25 years, and once I started into the act of working with his creations, it had an extra special excitement to me," he said in an interview with ''The Washington Post''.〔 "Aside from the content in his message, and the fact that he's the founder of the Church of Scientology and Dianetics, the thing I loved about Hubbard was the aesthetics of his writing. There is a musical wavelength to what he does," said Corea to ''The San Diego Union-Tribune''.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「To the Stars (album)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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