Minding his own business and his own zither at a wine bistro and then hauled back to America to write the score that reshaped the entertainment industry, the work of Anton Karas preserves the legacy ...

The film: The perfect blending of script, direction, acting and Anton Karas’s music goes some way to demonstrating why this remarkable film is still regarded as one of the greatest thrillers ever made ...

When we speak of Anton Karas' score to Carol Reed's 1949 classic of dodgy penicillin and cuckoo clocks, we speak of the zither. Most of us couldn't describe a zither if the lives of the Swiss nation ...

Listen to the Davenport Zither Ensemble rehearse three tunes at the German-American Heritage Center. Every Saturday morning, just as a cuckoo clock chirps 10 times, the members of the Davenport Zither ...

Someone asked me once whether it was my opinion as a critic that The Third Man had the most zither-centric score in film history. (This really happened.) I'm certainly not qualified to speak to all ...

For most of British history, Englishmen have been able to take zither music—or leave it to the Tyrolese. Last week, nonetheless, the humble, lap-sized stringed instrument was the musical rage of ...

Kimberly Belflower, the writer of the Tony-nominated play “John Proctor Is the Villain,” starring Sadie Sink, admires doll houses and pays tribute to a childhood hero.

British director Carol Reed’s 1949 Euro-noir “The Third Man” is justly famous among movie buffs and film scholars for its black-and-white cinematography, its memorable zingers, its atmosphere of ...

Anton Karl Karas (7 July 1906 – 10 January 1985) was an Austrian zither player and composer, best known for his internationally famous 1948 soundtrack to Carol Reed's The Third Man. His association ...

Talk about groundbreaking. “The Third Man” became one of the first film scores to move into popular music territory. Composer Karas played the entire thing on the zither. His “The Third Man Theme” was ...