---
name: "Rachel Elkind"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/rachel-elkind"
fi1m_id: "rachel-elkind"
imdb_id: "nm0253844"
tmdb_id: 2285
wikidata_id: "Q3416092"
roles: ["Composer"]
born: "23 February 1939"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T21:28:51.847382+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Rachel Elkind

## Identity

Rachel Elkind

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/rachel-elkind
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** rachel-elkind
- **IMDb ID:** nm0253844
- **TMDB ID:** 2285
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3416092
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Elkind-Tourre, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3416092, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0253844/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2285

Composer. Born 23 February 1939 in San Francisco.

## Details

- **Work:** Composer
- **Born:** 23 February 1939, San Francisco
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Elkind-Tourre, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3416092, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0253844/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2285

## Biography

Rachel Elkind is an American composer, record producer and musician. Born in San Francisco on 23 February 1939, she moved to New York City hoping to pursue a career as a jazz singer. She worked closely with Wendy Carlos from 1967 to 1980, producing several of her early electronic music albums including *Switched-On Bach* (1968).

Elkind is credited as co-composer, with Carlos, on the electronic score for Stanley Kubrick's *The Shining* (1980). Although Kubrick ultimately used pre-existing classical recordings for much of the film, their contributions included the main title theme and other cues; some of the unused material later appeared on Carlos's album *Rediscovering Lost Scores*.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, allmusic.com, discogs.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Shining* (1980), Fi1m 88, Original Music Composer, Music — [page](https://film.one/film/the-shining.md)

## Complete filmography (1)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Shining* (1980), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/the-shining.md)

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