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Harry Sukman
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Harry Sukman was one of the better practitioners of the peculiar and little-understood art of music adaptation. Although he did compose music for many films and television shows, he was at his best in adapting other composers' work. Born in Chicago in 1912, Harry Sukman revealed himself a music prodigy as a child, and attended the Metropolitan College of Music before he was in his teens. He made his concert debut as a pianist at age 12 at Kimball Hall and, while still a high school student, served as an accompanist to violinists Mischa Mischakoff and Louis Persinger, and cantor Joseph Rosenblatt. Sukman's teachers included Rudolph Ganz (piano) and Felix Borowski (theory, composition). He was employed in his twenties as a radio conductor and pianist, and moved to Hollywood in 1946, where he was hired as a pianist by the music department at Paramount Pictures. The studio's music director, Victor Young, took him under his wing and introduced him to the art of film scoring, both composition and adaptation. Sukman's entry into this field coincided with a steep decline in output by the major studios, and he didn't receive his first screen credit until 1954, when he wrote the music for Herbert L. Strock's science fiction thriller Gog. His second film was a similar science fiction effort, Riders to the Stars, and over the next four years he wrote the music for such independent productions as Lewis Allen's A Bullet for Joey and Samuel Fuller's Forty Guns and Verboten (parts of which w
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