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Herman Stein. Herman Stein (August 19, 1915 – March 15, 2007) was an American composer who wrote music for many of the 1950s science-fiction and horror films from Universal Studios. "Herman Stein was one of the architects of the sound of 1950s science-fiction movies." [1] Stein retired in the 1970s and died of congestive heart failure in his ...
Mar 24, 2007 · Herman Stein was born in Philadelphia on Aug. 19, 1915. A child prodigy, he took up the piano at 3, playing his first public concerts at 6. As a teenager, he taught himself orchestration by ...
Herman Stein (1915-2007) Herman Stein. Composer, arranger and pianist, he was a child prodigy who was already a keyboard artist at three and a concert performer at six. A self-taught orchestrator, he learned musical theory in the local public library, and soon was arranging music for popular bandleaders including Count Basie and Fred Waring.
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May 29, 2020 · Herman Stein: Opening Title & Finale music from Backlash (1956). [U.S.]. Note: Stein's opening title music was later re-adapted for Bullet for a Badman (1964...
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Mar 25, 2007 · Herman Stein, a staff composer at Universal in the 1950s whose best-known credits include horror and science fiction classics such as "Creature From the Black Lagoon" and "The Incredible Shrinking ...
Herman Stein: Main Title & Finale/End Title music from No Name on the Bullet (1959).
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Born in Philadelphia in 1915, Herman Stein was a self-taught musician who became a noted arranger for jazz orchestras and radio programs in New York during the 1930s and 40s. In 1948 he moved to Los Angeles, where he studied formally with Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, joining the music staff at Universal Pictures in 1951, where he remained until 1958. The Universal films of that period were ...