If you get a sense of déjà vu watching ANNA AND THE KING OF SIAM, then you may be more familiar with... 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
“Once the opera is done,” Bernard Herrmann wrote to his ex-wife, writer Lucille Fletcher, “I shall never write another note... Read More
Writing about music is difficult. How to put aural sounds into language is a subjective, and often frustrating, if not... 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
To close out a week in which my writing efforts have been alternating between Bernard Herrmann and LORD OF THE RINGS... Read More
Nobody sounds like Bernard Herrmann and no one ever will. A true original, he changed the sound of film music,... 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
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
Like children, should film music be “seen and not heard”? Many people denigrate film music, saying it takes them out... Read More
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