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Rachel Elkind-Tourre (born February 23, 1939) is an American classical musician, record producer and composer. She produced the work of Wendy Carlos, most notably the bestselling 1968 album Switched-On Bach. Elkind grew up in San Francisco. She moved to New York City hoping to be a jazz singer.
Jul 17, 2001 · Many of you will guess that I'm referring to Rachel Elkind-Tourre, the "Rachel" whose name is mentioned frequently within these pages, while it appears on all of our albums: "Produced by Rachel Elkind". And her contributions frequently included more than production, into the creative realm. (An issue of Keyboard magazine contained the single ...
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Nov 11, 2020 · Then came Switched-On Bach, thanks to another influential friend, Rachel Elkind, secretary to Columbia Records’ boss Goddard Lieberson: Columbia was running an album sales campaign called Bach ...
When the film version was announced Carlos and producer Rachel Elkind made a demonstration recording for Kubrick, who became interested and invited them to meet him in London. The outcome was not entirely satisfying to Carlos in terms of total contribution to the film, but there remained the opportunity to present the music in a separate album ...
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Apr 6, 2018 · Composer/performer Wendy Carlos and producer Rachel Elkind created a work that blew open the doors for an entire generation of composers and listeners. Switched-On Bach was an album that proved the artistic value of the analog synthesizer not only to the classical world, but to the entire musical mainstream. That’s right, Wendy Carlos became ...
Switched-On Bach is the debut album by American composer Wendy Carlos, originally released in October 1968 by Columbia Records. Produced by Carlos and Rachel Elkind, the album is a collection of pieces by Johann Sebastian Bach performed by Carlos and Benjamin Folkman on a Moog synthesizer. It played a key role in bringing synthesizers to ...
Oct 22, 2020 · The album, on which she collaborated with producer Rachel Elkind, rendered the well-known classical sounds of Johann Sebastian Bach on the Moog modular synthesizer, then a perceivably weird ...
