Theremin OST private The Lost Weekend Miklos Rozsa electronic avant 1945

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Miklos Rozsa: The Lost Weekend film score (1945 for orchestra with Theremin) label & cat. no.:[private pressing] TT-MR-2 pressed in:USA date:undated format:LP Vinyl: ex (couple faint unfeelable scuffs)
Cover: vg+ (light wear and some faint stain spots)

description:
Ultra rare promo-only composer's private press of this elusive early Theremin score to the classic Billy Wilder film. The unique early electronic instrument is used to depict "the wail of a disturbed psyche" in underlining the hallucinatory dementia caused by the alcoholism of the main character played by Ray Milland. Rozsa conducts an uncredited orchestra, with the Thereminist most likely being Samuel Hoffman. This was the only ever issue of this complete recording on vinyl, and is undated but appears to have been pressed in the 1970s; a note on the back cover states:"This is a limited edition recording, produced for the promotional purposes of the composer and is not licensed for public sale. The music was transferred to tape from the original acetate masters." Produced and with notes by Hollywood film and tv producer Tony Thomas.

artist info from album notes etc.:
Rozsa was a Hungarian composer known for his film scores who was influenced by Bela Bartok and Zoltan Kodaly and associated with Arthur Honegger, Richard Strauss, and Bruno Walter. • This historic early electronic instrument recording should be of interest to fans of Clara Rockmore, Robert Moog, Paul Tanner, Harry Revel, Les Baxter, Raymond Scott, Jean-Jacques Perrey, Gershon Kingsley, ondes martenot, ondioline, arp, buchla, Olivier Messiaen, Oskar Sala, Trautonium, John Eaton, Syn-Ket, Edgard Varese, Tom Dissevelt, Ferde Grofe, Bruce Haack, Jean-Michel Jarre, Bernard Herrmann, and Lothar and the hand people, as well as electronic film music composers like Toru Takemitsu, Tangerine Dream, Piero Umiliani, Gil Melle, Cecil Leuter/Roger Roger, Jean Michel Jarre, Nino Nardini, Giampiero Boneschi, Giorgio Moroder, Ennio Morricone, Vangelis, and Eduard Artemiev.

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