Samuel Hoffman

Samuel J. Hoffman ( born July 23, 1903 in Manhattan, † December 6, 1967 ) was an American doctor of podiatry and musicians. He became famous for his theremin for various soundtracks. His album Music Out of the Moon was one of two albums that took Neil Armstrong to the moon during the Apollo 11 flight.

Hoffmann worked as a doctor in Los Angeles.

Hoffmann had learned in his youth in Ovide music, the violin, and played under in a dance band for evening events. While still living in New York City, an acquaintance had given him a theremin, so as to induce a debt. Hoffmann founded in 1936 under the pseudonym Hal Hope a band with electronic instruments, nightlife gained some notoriety in New York. Hoffman played in the 9- man band changing violin and theremin, theremin but also the new Hal Hope made ​​it the talk of the town, and took care of presence in the coverage of the New York nightlife. Part of it also appeared in an electric trio with William Schuman also on Theremin and Charles Paul on the Hammond organ. 1938 contributed CBS Radio live performances by the band Hal Hope in the New York Restaurant Queen Mary.

After Hoffman had moved to Hollywood in 1941, he settled in the directory of the Musicians' Union of Hollywood to record, and was on a whim, the theremin as one of several instruments.

Miklós Rózsa Hoffmann contacted the composer for the soundtrack to the film Spellbound. Rozsas favorite, the famous theremin player Clara Rockmore had refused to use the instrument for ghostly effects, Hoffmann was the only theremin players in the union list, the fluent could read music. The film soundtrack, which at that time novel theremin sound was a defining element, won an Oscar. Hoffman was with his game helps to make the theremin an integral part of science fiction soundtracks of the 1950s and 1960s, as he had numerous appearances and orders for television.

Filmography

  • Spellbound (1945 )
  • The Lost Weekend (1945 )
  • The Spiral Staircase (1945 )
  • The Red House (1947 )
  • The Pretender (1947 )
  • Road to Rio (1947 )
  • Escape with no way out (1948 )
  • Let's Live a Little ( 1948)
  • Impact ( 1949)
  • She Shoulda Said No! (1949)
  • Oriental Evil (1950 )
  • Moon rocket launches (1950 )
  • Fancy Pants (1950 )
  • Let's Dance (1950 )
  • The Thing from Another World (1951 )
  • The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951 )
  • Phantom from Space (1953 )
  • Came from Outer Space (1953 )
  • The 5000 fingers of Dr. T. (1953 )
  • Project Moon Base ( 1953)
  • The Mad Magician ( 1954)
  • The last seven (1955 )
  • Please Murder Me ( 1956)
  • The Ten Commandments (1956 )
  • Voodoo Iceland (1957 )
  • The Delicate Delinquent (1957 )
  • Earth vs.. the Spider (1958 )
  • Billy the Kid versus Dracula (1966 )

Comments

  • Live electronics
  • American musician
  • Born in 1903
  • Died in 1967
  • Man
The Lost Weekend (film) The Spiral Staircase (1946 film) The Pretender (Foo Fighters song) Raw Deal (1948 film) Impact (film) Rocketship X-M It Came from Outer Space The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T Day the World Ended Earth vs. the Spider (2001 film)
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