HARRY-LIME-GOES-ROCK´N ROLL - Guitar PDF

The Third Man - Harry Lime goes Rock´n Roll

Walter Abt arranged this celebrated soundtrack with his own musical comments; developing the piece especially in its second part in a virtuoso Rock´n Roll
final. This music takes part of the CD “CINEMA PARADISO – soundtracks”, among pieces by
Morricone, Mancini, Williams, Myers (www.abt-music.com). Score: Anton Karas composed the
musical score and played it on the zither. Before the production came to Vienna, Karas was an
unknown performer in local Heurigers. The picture demanded music appropriate to post-World War
II Vienna, but director Carol Reed had made up his mind to avoid schmaltzy, heavily orchestrated waltzes.
In Vienna one night Reed listened to a wine-garden zitherist named Anton Karas, and was fascinated
by the jangling melancholy of his music. According to Guy Hamilton, Reed met Karas by coincidence
at a party in Vienna, where he was playing the zither. Reed brought Karas to London, where the
musician worked with Reed on the score for six weeks. Karas stayed at Reed's house during that
time. Film critic Roger Ebert wrote, "Has there ever been a film where the music more perfectly
suited the action than in Carol Reed's The Third Man?"’