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  Hitchcock's Herrmann - Hitchcock Online - www.hitchcockonline.org
Bernard Herrmann was one of the most influential composers to work in film.
Bernard Herrmann's musical language brought a new dimension to the Hollywood 'norm', established by composers such as Max Steiner and Miklos Rozsa.
Bernard Herrmann: Film Composer - It has been said that a good film score should not be noticeable; it should be so well integrated into the film that it is inseparable, as much a part of the finished production as the sets or cinematography.
www.cas.sc.edu /socy/faculty/deflem/playHitchHerrmann.html   (336 words)

  
 Bernard Herrmann - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bernard Herrmann (June 29, 1911 – December 24, 1975) was an Academy Award-winning composer and is today generally regarded as one of the greatest of all film composers.
Bernard Hermann died from cardiovascular disease in his sleep at his hotel in Los Angeles, California, the night he completed the final recording session for Taxi Driver.
Bernard Herrmann papers, at the University of California, Santa Barbara Library.
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 Bernard Herrmann - film score composer
There are not many composers who have appeared on the film screen (coincidentally Truffaut's frequent composer partner Georges Delerue has done so in "Shoot the Pianist"), but Bernard Herrmann played the part of the conductor in the climax of Hitchcock's film "The Man Who Knew Too Much" set in the Royal Albert Hall.
For Vertigo it is the arpeggios moving in different directions at the same time which seem to be most closely identified with the movie and its title, yet most of the soundtrack is infused with a number of related motifs which together constitute James Stewart's fascination for a woman - a theme of doomed love.
Bernard Herrmann also had an association with the stop motion films of Ray Harryhausen, writing scores for his The Three Worlds of Gulliver, Jason and the Argonauts, Mysterious Island, and The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad.
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 Bernard Herrmann
Bernard Herrmann was as legendary for his irascible personna as for his film scores.
Commenting on Herrmann's compositional technique, David Raksin wrote, "Remarkable composer that he was, he was that despite a rudimentary sense of melody, which he sought to remedy by repeating short phrases in sequences--meaning that he would state a brief musical phrase and then repeat it, and repeat it again and again in other positions.
Biographer Steven C. Smith (A Heart At Fire's Center: The Life and Music of Bernard Herrmann) also attest to Herrmann's "pride and testiness" and said that the composer could often be suspicious of people's motives that bordered on the paranoid.
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 American Composers Orchestra - David Raksin Remembers His Colleagues
Bernstein was a compendium of the mannerisms of-Bernard Herrmann: he looks like Benny, acts like him, and even talks like him-although he is somewhat less raucous than Benny could be when aroused.
The Aria from Salaambo, an operatic sequence that Herrmann composed for the unhappy debut of Kane's protégé, Susan Alexander, had to expose her as the rank amateur she was unequal to so grand a challenge.
Scratch's victims, who is imprisoned in a matchbox -exactly the kind of challenge that drives film composers to drink (although, in our nearly four decades of friendship I never saw Benny intoxicated.) In any event, he was more than equal to the task, and he won an Academy Award for this score.
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 BHS - The Bernard Herrmann Society
Nightmare Romance: Bernard Herrmann and Alfred Hitchcock Concert Report by Günther Kögebehn
Copyright © 2006 by The Bernard Herrmann Society.
Bernard Herrmann : Music for the Movies (DVD) 31 October 2006 Elmer Bernstein's Film Music Collection (1975-1979) 10 August 2006 Film Noir Classic Collection, Vol.
www.bernardherrmann.org   (345 words)

  
 Bernard Herrmann Papers - Bernard Herrmann Papers
Composer Bernard Herrmann (1911-1975) conducted and scored for CBS radio including Welles' War of the Worlds before moving into film scoring beginning with Citizen Kane and many of Alfred Hitchcock's films.
The collection includes most of Herrmann's film scores as well as correspondence, financial records, and photographs, sound recordings, and published scores.
UCSB owns a microfilm copy of the NYPL materials which can be used on site in Special Collections.
www.library.ucsb.edu /speccoll/pa/pamss03.html   (221 words)

  
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Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey (1994) (from "The Day the Earth Stood Still") (as Bernard Hermann)
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