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KingKong Koncert?...
It was during this period of emergence that (Max) Steiner began to come into
conflict with his producers as his passion for illuminating action with
sound developed, and his position at the studio strengthened. He would seize
upon every new script that came into the office, searching it through to
find strange new uses for music. Anything with lightning and thunder or a
few good horror episodes automatically became Steiner’s property. I doubt,
however, that even he dreamed of so ideal a fulfillment of his hopes as he
encountered in King Kong. This really got him.
It offered him a chance to write the kind of music no one had ever heard
before – or since. Full of weird chords, strident background noises,
rumblings and heavings, it was one of the most enthusiastically written
scores ever to be composed in Hollywood. Indeed, it was always my feeling
that it should have been advertised as a concert of Steiner’s music with
accompanying pictures on the screen.
~ Oscar Levant (A Smattering of Ignorance)
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