The Story of Samuel Hoffman

Samuel Hoffman was a professional violin player under the name hal hope. He started his own all electronic trio with a hammond organ and cello style finger board theromin played by william schumann. In 19 forty five he received a call from mikrass rosa, who was working on the sound track for alfred hitchcock's new film, spellbound. Rosa had tried to get clara rockmore, the one true virtuosa, to play on the soundtrack, but she had refused. She didn't do film sound tract work because, in her experience, they only wanted her to play on films about ghosts or aliens.