He had a grudge against the world and his place in it; his friend David Raksin called him “a virtuoso of unspecified anger.” His longest and strongest professional relationship, with Alfred Hitchcock, ...

Herrmann composed some of the best-known film music ever written — especially the scores he wrote for Alfred Hitchcock. Now a new CD shows another side of Herrmann that's equally memorable. This is ...

The Minnesota Opera is celebrating the centenary of legendary Hollywood composer Bernard Herrmann with the first major production of his only opera, Wuthering Heights, which was completed in ...

Bernard Herrmann, who gave “Citizen Kane” (1941) its eerie, jolly sonic admixture, “Psycho” (1960) its nervous system and “Taxi Driver” (1976) its lonely, perversely romantic noir ache, was born this ...

The Pacific Symphony and conductor Richard Kaufman gave another of their “Symphonic Night at the Movies” programs Thursday night in Segerstrom Concert Hall, this time devoted to Alfred Hitchcock’s ...

Everyone who loves movies knows the music of Bernard Herrmann, whether they realize it or not. The growling brass in Citizen Kane, the spiraling arpeggios in Vertigo, the rocketing fandango in North ...

Few movie soundtrack composers are perennially contemporary household names, but New York-born Jewish musician Bernard Herrmann, whose June 29 centenary is being celebrated with a year of CD releases ...

What: Six films scored by the great composer will screen during a four-day series. When: Thursday, April 24 through Sunday, April 27. Where: Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque, 11141 East Blvd.

Hwyel Bennett as Martin Durnley in the Boulting Brothers' genuinely unsettling 'Twisted Nerve' The mastering is superb. Listening is like being in the room as recording was taking place. The package ...

June 29, 2011 marks the centenary of the birth of Bernard Herrmann, one of America's most innovative and influential composers. He is best known for his film scores for such classics as "Citizen Kane, ...

Music For The Movies: Bernard Herrmann explores the work of a composer who created music for over 50 films, collaborating with such diverse directors as Orson Welles, Nicholas Ray, and Martin Scorsese ...

Although the music for Marnie was written in happier times for the Herrmann/Hitchcock relationship, it’s overshadowed by the non-dialogue aspects of The Birds and Psycho as they’ve become divorced ...