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Early Rozsa is Great Rozsa.
Love The Jungle Book.
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Apr 3, 2020 - 5:09 AM
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MusicMad
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Last evening, I re-watched the 2003 BBC4 broadcast Great Composers - The Golden Age re: Miklós Rózsa, presented by Leonard Slatkin.
The programme covered the composer's early life (some old camera footage) and included numerous on-screen contributions from John Williams, Jerry Goldsmith*, pianist Leonard Pennario - each of whom worked with Rózsa - and others, such as Jon Burlingame.
Greatly enjoyable, I especially liked hearing references to names I now know from the 1950s' era: Sinatra, Riddle, Cole, Garland, Slatkin's parents: Felix and Eleanor, et al. There was discussion of Rózsa's use of the Theremin, the implication being that this was its first use in Spellbound (1945). Given it was mentioned that Rózsa worked with Arthur Honegger in the decade prior, I do wonder if he knew of that composer's score for Demon of the Himalayas (1935) which included the instrument (Edit: oops! that was the Ondes Martenot. However Dmitri Shostakovich had used the Theremin in Odna (Alone) in 1931 though it was unlikely this had had much exposure in years hence).
The programme included a performance of the Spellbound Concerto performed by Leonard Slatkin conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra, with pianist Simon Mulligan, accompanied by Celia Sheen playing the Theremin - wonderful! 
Mitch
*JG interviewed at Pink's Hot Dogs - LA ... he was less than fully complimentary
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