Long before The Shining, et. al., this is how I became acquainted with Wendy’s work back in my high school years:
BTW, the original soundtrack from The Shining is one of those recordings that was never officially released on CD, and good copies of vinyl on the market are ridiculously expensive:
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I had it in my collection back in the day. I wish now it had been among one of the few I’d held on to; not because of the value, but because of the music itself.
Of course, this led me on a search to see if it was available online for download (because I have an incomplete version in iTunes) and I was able to find it. My next MD ripping project… 😁
Hi there,
When looking for rarities that I think do not deserve to be overpaid on regular sites – like 200+$ in this case – I turn to https://archive.org/
I just downloaded The Shining original soundtrack in ogg vorbis format in less than a minute.
A search with ” Wendy Carlos” gave results that might be of interest to you.
That’s pretty much what I did. 🤣
I never met or saw her. But in the first week that I arrived in San Francisco (1971), I was taken to a free concert inside Grace Cathedral, and Wendy Carlos played the ‘Moog Synthesizer’, an intrument and a term I’d never heard of. I remember this because around that time, ‘A Clockwork Orange’ had come out, and the sounds from the concert and the soundtrack from the film connected for me.