CineSavant Column
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This first link is fun … Gary Teetzel sends along a little bit of music heaven, credted to Stereozentrum. It’s the main title cue from Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, arranged for solo piano.
Since the YouTube video is a live performance, we get to see the pianist’s skill uninterrupted. The post has a couple of paragraphs of learned music talk, that happens to discuss something called the ‘Hitchcock Chord’ … if it’s a joke, I wouldn’t be able to tell. But I was certainly entertained.
‘Stereozentrum’ doesn’t identify himself directly, so forgive the omission of the name of the talented pianist.
As long as we’re in the neighborhood, here’s some extra Psycho links — for Petra Hayden’s Psycho Acapella; Bernard Herrmann’s Psycho score explored for A-level music students; and score explored for A-level music students; and of course the immortal Psycho Sleigh Ride medley.
Promoter and restorationist Arnold Leibovit has another Puppetoon release coming on Blu-ray. It’s a 4K remaster of a restored Director’s Cut of the original 1987 The Puppetoon Movie.
It sounds like a digital overhaul of the entertaining feature, which includes classic by producer George Pal, and creative contributions by Ray Harryhausen, Willis O’Brien, Gene Warren, Sr., Wah Chang, Fred Moore, Buddy Baker, Louis Armstrong, and Peggy Lee. A look at the sales page gives a full description of the restoration, and the improvements made to the Puppetoons included.
The disc is due in late April, the link is to a preorder page — it’s loaded with bright Technicolor images.
Other Puppetoon compilations are at Arnold Leibovit’s Puppetoons Productions Home Page.
Thanks for reading! — Glenn Erickson