August is my birthday month. But rather than wait for the 19th to roll around, I’m celebrating my birthday a... Read More
Alfred Hitchcock and Bernard Herrmann. Two great tastes that taste great together. Along with Prokofiev and Eisenstein and Steven Spielberg and... Read More
“Once the opera is done,” Bernard Herrmann wrote to his ex-wife, writer Lucille Fletcher, “I shall never write another note... Read More
If you’d like to catch up on the earlier installments, check out Part 1 and Part 2 of 50 Favorite... Read More
Writing about music is difficult. How to put aural sounds into language is a subjective, and often frustrating, if not... Read More
No, it’s not me. The Associated Press has reported that a 20-page autographed manuscript of Bernard Herrmann’s classic 1960 score... Read More
Chandos continues their excellent line of re-recordings with THE FILM MUSIC OF BERNARD HERRMANN. The generous 77-minute album contains two... Read More
To close out a week in which my writing efforts have been alternating between Bernard Herrmann and LORD OF THE RINGS... Read More
You’d think there be a month that went by that I didn’t think about the Oscars. Alas, I’m just that... Read More
Arthur Benjamin‘s greatest success came at the hands of another composer. In 1956, Alfred Hitchcock remade his 1935 film THE... Read More