Posted on 04/27/2016 8:03:12 AM PDT by Cecily
In many ways, it’s remarkable that the composer Bernard Herrmann, who died at age 64 in 1975, is as well known as he is. His scores to Alfred Hitchcock’s “Vertigo” (1958) and “Psycho” (1960) remain inseparable from those seminal pictures. Yet a significant number of Herrmann aficionados feel such recognition is insufficient, that much of this composer’s music is not just neglected but sorely underappreciated. And a good many of them gathered here recently, at Georgetown University and the National Gallery of Art, to make their case in a series of programs that examined not just Herrmann’s well-established achievements (like his nine-film collaboration with Hitchcock), but also the radio dramas he scored during his 16-year association with the CBS Symphony Orchestra and the still largely ignored music he wrote for the concert hall.
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Bernard Herrmann is absolutely my all-time favorite film composer. My faves are “North by Northwrst”, “ Fahrenheit 451” and “Garden of Evil.”
His soundtrack to “Taxi Driver” is my favorite.
Let’s not forget the theme to Suspense. Very cool and spooky.
and Citizen Kane and The Ghost and Mrs. Muir and The Devil and Daniel Webster and ....
This is a quintet for clarinet and string quartet, and it reminds me a bit of Barber and Brahms.
Seriously, he was such a major ingredient in Movie Magic.
“Journey to the Center of the Earth”
He’s not my very favorite, but he was certainly one of the greatest.
A master composer. The following films are unthinkable without his musical contributions:
“The 7th Voyage of Sinbad”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZu621cODRw
“Vertigo”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Spx0NthRoVc
“North By Northwest”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2qZzRuIQuk
“Marnie”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SF5_nuj-QQ
“Obsession”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hQvJrDuQtQ
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