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- 5 APR 2024
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- Kill Bill Vol. 1 Original Soundtrack (PA Version) · 1969
- Taxi Driver (Original Soundtrack Recording) · 1975
- Taxi Driver (Original Soundtrack Recording) · 1976
- Sax and Violence (Music From the Dark Side of the Screen) · 1995
- Hollywood Soundtrack · 1992
- Varèse Sarabande: 40 Years of Great Film Music 1978-2018 · 2018
- Journey to the Center of the Earth (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) · 1997
- Obsession (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) [Bonus Tracks] · 1976
- Bernard Herrmann: The Twilight Zone Conducted By Joel McNeely (Music From Television Series) · 1999
- Herrmann: Music From Great Film Classics · 1971
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About Bernard Herrmann
The name Bernard Herrmann is synonymous with film music. Few moments are as iconic and revolutionary as the Bates Motel shower murder in Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho; Herrmann’s shrieking violins are inextricable from the frenzied effect of the scene. Known as a soundtrack innovator who scored some 50 movies, Herrmann nevertheless rejected the title of film composer, styling himself instead as a neo-Romantic. Born in 1911 in New York, he grew up playing his father’s gramophone and attending concerts at Carnegie Hall. In 1934, CBS Radio hired Herrmann as a composer, arranger and conductor. One of the radio shows he scored was The Mercury Theatre on the Air, and when its maverick director, Orson Welles, embarked on a film career, he enlisted Herrmann as composer. Years after working on Welles' Citizen Kane, Herrmann was recruited by Hitchcock to score The Trouble with Harry, giving rise to one of the great director–composer partnerships, highlighted by Vertigo and North by Northwest. Although the scores overshadow Herrmann’s music for the concert hall and the stage, his lush 1951 opera, Wuthering Heights, with self-standing arias like “I Have Dreamt”, is worth exploring. Herrmann died in 1975, a day after completing the score for Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver.
- HOMETOWN
- New York, NY, United States
- BORN
- 29 de junio de 1911
- GENRE
- Soundtrack