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May 4, 2021 · He reviewed the PostClassical Ensemble playing radio and concert music by composer Bernard Herrmann on a Naxos American Classics CD. On tomorrow's show, Alison Bechdel talks about her new graphic ...
Bernard Herrmann was part of the so-called ‘Golden Age’ of film composers — though it was a term he loathed. He saw himself first and foremost as a composer who sometimes wrote music for films, a period which originated in the 30s and 40s and whose adherents included the likes of Alfred Newman, Franz Waxman, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Max Steiner and Miklós Rósza.
Laurie Johnson, R.I.P. Herrmann’s friend and frequent collaborator, British composer Laurie Johnson, MBE has died aged 96 on 16th January 2024. Digitizing Bernard Herrmann’s Recordings with the CBS Symphony The UCSB Library’s Special Research Collections will preserve, digitize, and make accessible the groundbreaking radio broadcasts of the CBS Symphony conducted by Bernard Herrmann in ...
Bernard Herrmann. Music Department: North by Northwest. The man behind the low woodwinds that open Citizen Kane (1941), the shrieking violins of Psycho (1960), and the plaintive saxophone of Taxi Driver (1976) was one of the most original and distinctive composers ever to work in film. He started early, winning a composition prize at the age of 13 and founding his own orchestra at the age of ...
Bernard Herrmann is one of the greatest composers of motion picture music in the twentieth century. He is considered the man behind some of the most original and distinctive film scores. He was a master at evoking psychological and dramatic tension in his music to suit the dramatic needs of a film. He won his only Oscar in 1947 for writing the ...
The Bernard Herrmann Society is a continuation of the Bernard Herrmann Web Pages (1994-2000). The BHS is unrelated to the 1980′s society by the same name. The BHS web site is hosted by the University of Bergen, Norway, with special thanks to the Department of Information Science and Media Studies, and to Hans Morten Kind at the IT-department.
