I'm glad that Joey said "no googling" because that is a damn tempting clue to google.
I mainly associate TTZ music with Bernard Herrmann, but I don't think he wrote the famous theme. Which means he MIGHT have written the original theme. This music doesn't sound like his to me, but I'm putting him in the bucket.
The mixed meters put me a bit in mind of a Latin American voice, perhaps Silvestre Revueltas. But the general ruckus (were there sirens in there?) make me think that it could be someone like Varèse ... but it just seems highly improbable that either of them would have written a theme song for an American television show.
George Antheil? Maybe that's my answer. So my bucket would be: Antheil, Herrmann, Revueltas.
NTT: I have no idea who this is actually by, nor who might have been writing television theme music just past mid-century. And I wish I could hear what syllable the voices are punctuating the orchestral music with and whether it is English. After the first few seconds, the music takes on the angular, neoclassical sound of Stravinsky, and especially by around24 seconds, the episodic character of ballet music. The trombone gliss near the end is Stravinsky-like too, since he used so much brass during WWII. So I would say the composer was a mid-century Stravinsky fan, perhaps an American or immigrant to America . Speculating wildly, I’ll guess it could be someone who lived in California and even had contact with Stravinsky there. But maybe the TV industry was still centered in NYC at the time, making the California guess off-base.
NTT: Not familiar enough with Twilight Zone history to know if they used an original theme initially or a previously existing piece, but perhaps assuming the former, I'm thinking some European emigre composer who ended up in Hollywood - maybe Rozsa? Because of the Latin tinge toward the end I'll throw in Chavez, not knowing if he ever spent time in California.
Obviously, Maestro Will is in line for the LA Phil job. They just have to work around his Harmonia schedule.
My guess is Ludovic Morlot.
Ron Schwizer
I'm glad that Joey said "no googling" because that is a damn tempting clue to google.
I mainly associate TTZ music with Bernard Herrmann, but I don't think he wrote the famous theme. Which means he MIGHT have written the original theme. This music doesn't sound like his to me, but I'm putting him in the bucket.
The mixed meters put me a bit in mind of a Latin American voice, perhaps Silvestre Revueltas. But the general ruckus (were there sirens in there?) make me think that it could be someone like Varèse ... but it just seems highly improbable that either of them would have written a theme song for an American television show.
George Antheil? Maybe that's my answer. So my bucket would be: Antheil, Herrmann, Revueltas.
NTT: I have no idea who this is actually by, nor who might have been writing television theme music just past mid-century. And I wish I could hear what syllable the voices are punctuating the orchestral music with and whether it is English. After the first few seconds, the music takes on the angular, neoclassical sound of Stravinsky, and especially by around24 seconds, the episodic character of ballet music. The trombone gliss near the end is Stravinsky-like too, since he used so much brass during WWII. So I would say the composer was a mid-century Stravinsky fan, perhaps an American or immigrant to America . Speculating wildly, I’ll guess it could be someone who lived in California and even had contact with Stravinsky there. But maybe the TV industry was still centered in NYC at the time, making the California guess off-base.
Steiner, North, Herrmann…no idea
NTT: Not familiar enough with Twilight Zone history to know if they used an original theme initially or a previously existing piece, but perhaps assuming the former, I'm thinking some European emigre composer who ended up in Hollywood - maybe Rozsa? Because of the Latin tinge toward the end I'll throw in Chavez, not knowing if he ever spent time in California.