I happened across the follow essay:
Weird vibrations: how the theremin gave musical voice to Hollywood's extraterrestrial "others".(electronic music from 1950s science fiction films)
From: Journal of Popular Film and Television | Date: 9/22/2002 | Author: Wierzbicki, James
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-94465247.html
Which contained the passage:
"It is not likely that the average American moviegoer would have been familiar with the theremin's earliest cinematic uses in the Soviet films Alone (1931) and Komsomol: The Patron of Electrification (1934). with scores by Dmitri Shostakovich and Gavreil Popov, respectively."
and I went looking for the movies online. I discovered that the score for Odna has recently been recorded by the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra and is availble on CD:
http://www.amazon.com/Shostakovich-Odna-Alone-Silent-Score/dp/B000ZJVI5C/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1207117722&sr=8-1
and by the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra:
http://www.amazon.com/Odna-Dmitry-Shostakovich/dp/B000001WSI/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1207117859&sr=8-2
I also discovered [thanks to the Internet Movie Data Base, imdb.com and a correspondent in Germany] that the restored movie with new sound track is available as a German DVD [DVD Region Code 2] with English subtitles:
http://www.amazon.de/Odna-Allein-Grigorian-Kosinzew/dp/3898488683/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1207117934&sr=8-1
I have no idea who the theremin performer is, but I have a copy of the restored movie coming. Does anyone out there have one of the CD's?
Weird vibrations: how the theremin gave musical voice to Hollywood's extraterrestrial "others".(electronic music from 1950s science fiction films)
From: Journal of Popular Film and Television | Date: 9/22/2002 | Author: Wierzbicki, James
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-94465247.html
Which contained the passage:
"It is not likely that the average American moviegoer would have been familiar with the theremin's earliest cinematic uses in the Soviet films Alone (1931) and Komsomol: The Patron of Electrification (1934). with scores by Dmitri Shostakovich and Gavreil Popov, respectively."
and I went looking for the movies online. I discovered that the score for Odna has recently been recorded by the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra and is availble on CD:
http://www.amazon.com/Shostakovich-Odna-Alone-Silent-Score/dp/B000ZJVI5C/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1207117722&sr=8-1
and by the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra:
http://www.amazon.com/Odna-Dmitry-Shostakovich/dp/B000001WSI/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1207117859&sr=8-2
I also discovered [thanks to the Internet Movie Data Base, imdb.com and a correspondent in Germany] that the restored movie with new sound track is available as a German DVD [DVD Region Code 2] with English subtitles:
http://www.amazon.de/Odna-Allein-Grigorian-Kosinzew/dp/3898488683/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1207117934&sr=8-1
I have no idea who the theremin performer is, but I have a copy of the restored movie coming. Does anyone out there have one of the CD's?
