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06-29-2009, 06:25 PM
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Today would have been Bernard Herrmann's 98th B-day. To celebrate this, I present
"Bernard Herrmann - Celebration of Life and Music"
a 2.5 hr radio documentary on the man.
info about this can be found here:
http://www.bernardherrmann.org/articles/present/celebration/
BennyCelebration.rar (http://www.rapidspread.com/file.jsp?id=jhajzjd418)
Enjoy!
No composer contributed more to film than Bernard Herrmann, who in over forty scores enriched the work of such directors as Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Francois Truffaut, and Martin Scorsese. From his first film (Citizen Kane) to his last (Taxi Driver), Herrmann was a master at evoking psychological nuance and dramatic tension through music, often using unheard-of instrumental combinations to suit the the dramatic needs of a film. His scores are among the most distinguished ever written, ranging from the fantastic (Fahrenheit 451, The Day the Earth Stood Still) to the romantic (Obsession, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir) to the terrifying (Psycho).
Film was not the only medium in which Herrmann made a powerful mark. His radio broadcasts included Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre on the Air and its most notorious presentation, The War of the Worlds. His concert music was commissioned and performed by the New York Philharmonic. As chief conductor of the CBS Symphony, Herrmann gave important first performances of music by such composers as Ralph Vaughan Williams and Charles Ives, whose work he particularly championed.
Almost as celebrated as these achievements are the enduring legends of Herrmann's combativeness and volatility. As complex as any character in the films he scores, Herrmann remains a creative genius, an indefagitable musicologist, an explosive bully, a generous and compassionate man who desperately sought friendship and love.
Steven C. Smith
Author of A HEART AT FIRE'S CENTER:
THE LIFE AND MUSIC OF BERNARD HERRMANN
Today would have been Bernard Herrmann's 98th B-day. To celebrate this, I present
"Bernard Herrmann - Celebration of Life and Music"
a 2.5 hr radio documentary on the man.
info about this can be found here:
http://www.bernardherrmann.org/articles/present/celebration/
BennyCelebration.rar (http://www.rapidspread.com/file.jsp?id=jhajzjd418)
Enjoy!
No composer contributed more to film than Bernard Herrmann, who in over forty scores enriched the work of such directors as Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Francois Truffaut, and Martin Scorsese. From his first film (Citizen Kane) to his last (Taxi Driver), Herrmann was a master at evoking psychological nuance and dramatic tension through music, often using unheard-of instrumental combinations to suit the the dramatic needs of a film. His scores are among the most distinguished ever written, ranging from the fantastic (Fahrenheit 451, The Day the Earth Stood Still) to the romantic (Obsession, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir) to the terrifying (Psycho).
Film was not the only medium in which Herrmann made a powerful mark. His radio broadcasts included Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre on the Air and its most notorious presentation, The War of the Worlds. His concert music was commissioned and performed by the New York Philharmonic. As chief conductor of the CBS Symphony, Herrmann gave important first performances of music by such composers as Ralph Vaughan Williams and Charles Ives, whose work he particularly championed.
Almost as celebrated as these achievements are the enduring legends of Herrmann's combativeness and volatility. As complex as any character in the films he scores, Herrmann remains a creative genius, an indefagitable musicologist, an explosive bully, a generous and compassionate man who desperately sought friendship and love.
Steven C. Smith
Author of A HEART AT FIRE'S CENTER:
THE LIFE AND MUSIC OF BERNARD HERRMANN