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Theremin Soundtracks

The Day the Earth Stood Still

January 9, 2010
The Day the Earth Stood Still

Movie soundtrack composer Bernard Herrmann (29 June, 1911 – 24 December, 1975) is probably best known for the scores he created for the films of Alfred Hitchcock, including the iconic musical theme that accompanied the dramatic murder-in-the-shower scene in Psycho (1960), which even today is hummed by any raconteur who wants to create a spooky [...]

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The Lost Weekend

December 2, 2009
The Lost Weekend

By all accounts 1945 was an astounding year for Hungarian-born film score composer Miklos Rosza. Not only did he win the Academy Award for his soundtrack for Alfred Hitchcock’s thriller Spellbound, but he was also nominated in the same category for another film score that same year – The Lost Weekend. Both films, of course, [...]

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Mars Attacks!

November 24, 2009
Mars Attacks!

I’m a huge fan of Tim Burton and the music of Danny Elfman, whose working relationship has been nothing short of symbiotic over the last couple of decades since their collaboration on Burton’s first movie Pee-wee’s Big Adventure. Whilst critics and public in the US didn’t warm to Burton and Elfman’s 1996 outing Mars Attacks! [...]

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Spellbound

November 20, 2009
Spellbound

The theremin is most widely associated with alien or supernatural genre movies. During the 1940s and 50s particularly it was heavily exploited as a means of creating a surreal atmosphere with its potential for producing an eerie vibrato which sounded nearly, but not quite, human. During the Golden Age of Hollywood the only man actually [...]

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