Composer Herman Stein Is Gone -- Ain't It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news.

Published on Wednesday, March 28, 2007 - 9:36am

ScoreKeeper here sadly reporting the loss of a monstrous force in movie music.

Herman Stein passed away of congestive heart failure on March 15, 2007 at the age of 91. One of the premier composers of bone-chilling scores for horror and sci-fi films throughout the 1950’s and 60’s, his music will forever be paired with such monster movie classics as IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE (1953), CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON (1954), REVENGE OF THE CREATURE (1955), THIS ISLAND EARTH (1955), TARANTULA (1955), THE CREATURE WALKS AMONG US (1956), and THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN (1957) as well as episodic television scores for LOST IN SPACE (1965) and VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA (1966).

During the last several years there’s been a resurgence of Herman Stein’s film scores realized through a series of CDs on the Monstrous Movie Music label. New performances of many of his classic film scores have been recorded ensuring that his music will be preserved for all posterity. For more information on these new recordings visit Monstrous Movie Music (http://www.mmmrecordings.com/).

THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON has long been my favorite Universal monster movie series. Every time the creature’s hand appeared from the depths of the murky water, the clashing chords of his diabolic fanfare would signal certain death for some unfortunate soul. Pure bliss.

Thank you Herman for your magnificent music! You will sorely be missed.

On behalf of Ain’t It Cool News I’d like to extend our condolences to Stein’s family during this difficult time.

For more details you can check out this article from LA Times.

ScoreKeeper!!!

Wow, that was a whole lot of horn players... by Childe Roland	Mar 28th, 2007 09:47:03 AM
Some memorable stuff by Turd Furgeson	Mar 28th, 2007 09:53:48 AM
You know your stuff, Scorekeeper. by Uncapie	Mar 28th, 2007 09:59:38 AM
piste by pipergates	Mar 28th, 2007 09:59:43 AM
You know your stuff, Scorekeeper. by Uncapie	Mar 28th, 2007 10:00:13 AM
Which Muster was this again? by Lord Thislewick	Mar 28th, 2007 10:03:21 AM
Decomposing The Composers by Douche Baggins	Mar 28th, 2007 10:46:26 AM
What's with all the film composer deaths lately? by Osmosis Jones	Mar 28th, 2007 11:17:57 AM
Where are the composers to replace these guys? by kwisatzhaderach	Mar 28th, 2007 12:40:54 PM
normal view, Normal View, NORMAL View, NORMAL VIEW!!!!! by mediocrates	Mar 28th, 2007 08:46:14 PM
Keep an eye on Michael Giacchino by Osmosis Jones	Mar 28th, 2007 11:31:40 PM

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