December 2, 2009
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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November 20, 2009
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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