{"id":12281,"date":"2011-06-29T21:22:22","date_gmt":"2011-06-29T20:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=12281"},"modified":"2011-06-29T22:15:41","modified_gmt":"2011-06-29T21:15:41","slug":"bernard-herrmann-at-100-hitchcock-vertigo-psycho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2011\/06\/29\/bernard-herrmann-at-100-hitchcock-vertigo-psycho\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernard Herrmann at 100"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Bernard-Herrmann-at-100.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12282\" title=\"Bernard Herrmann at 100\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Bernard-Herrmann-at-100.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the greatest film composers of all time would have been 100 today.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bernard_Herrmann\">Bernard Herrmann<\/a><\/strong> is best known for his long term collaboration with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alfred_Hitchcock\">Alfred Hitchcock<\/a>, but his career was a remarkable one that saw him score for directors such as Orson Welles, Fred Zinneman, Nicholas Ray, Fran\u00e7ois Truffaut, Brian De Palma and Martin Scorsese.<\/p>\n<p>After working in radio with Welles at the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mercury_Theatre\">Mercury Theater<\/a> company, he joined the precocious director for his debut feature film <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Citizen_Kane\">Citizen Kane<\/a> (1941).<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/h78Lsi_6rpE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Groundbreaking in so many ways, Herrmann&#8217;s distinctive score marked him out as a composer to watch and he won an Oscar for his second film, William Dieterle&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Devil_and_Daniel_Webster_(film)\">The Devil and Daniel Webster<\/a> (1941).<\/p>\n<p>He also composed the memorable score for the sci-fi classic <a title=\"The Day the Earth Stood Still\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Day_the_Earth_Stood_Still\">The Day the Earth Stood Still<\/a> (1951) using a\u00a0<a title=\"Theremin\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Theremin\">theremin<\/a> to great effect.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"450\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TRc6f2oVdlw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>His work with Hitchcock began with The The Trouble with Harry (1955) and was followed up when the director remade his own movie <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Man_Who_Knew_Too_Much_(1956_film)\">The Man Who Knew Too Much<\/a> (1956) &#8211; Herrmann even makes a cameo appearence as the conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra during the sequence at the Royal Albert Hall.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"450\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/W56nvx4FLJM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Arguably the most famous director and composer team ever, Herrmann&#8217;s scores for <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vertigo_(film)\">Vertigo<\/a> (1958), <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/North_by_Northwest\">North By Northwest<\/a> (1959) and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Psycho_(film)\">Psycho<\/a> (1960) are gold-plated classics and on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Birds_(film)\">The Birds<\/a> (1963) he created an innovative sound design instead of a traditional soundtrack.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"450\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kC5AzFc3coo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"450\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/db4LjufUY-Y\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"450\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qMTrVgpDwPk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The 1960s also saw some fine work with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cape_Fear_(1962_film)\">Cape Fear<\/a> (1962), <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jason_and_the_Argonauts_(1963_film)\">Jason and the Argonauts<\/a> (1963) and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fahrenheit_451_(1966_film)\">Fahrenheit 451<\/a> (1966).<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"450\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QH3RhbVP7cA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>His later years saw him move to London, but in the final year of his life he worked with Hitchcock devotee <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brian_De_Palma\">Brian De Palma<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Obsession_(1976_film)\">Obsession<\/a> (1976) and Martin Scorsese on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Taxi_Driver\">Taxi Driver<\/a> (1976).<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"450\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Bx4aK-YsPeU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The latter film provided a fitting epitaph with its brilliant use of percusion, strings and saxophone. Scorsese dedicated the finished picture to him.<\/p>\n<p>Since his death, his reputation has continued to grow with directors like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fHAkg0O-kwM\">Quentin Tarantino<\/a> (theme from &#8216;Twisted Nerve&#8217;) and even pop stars like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wV1FrqwZyKw\">Lady Gaga<\/a> (main theme from &#8216;Vertigo&#8217;) using his music.<\/p>\n<p>Back in 1988, KIOS-FM broadcast a 2 hour radio documentary on Herrmann&#8217;s life and career by Bruce Crawford and Bob Coate, and you can listen to it in three parts here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bernardherrmann.org\/articles\/present-celebration-broadcast\">www.bernardherrmann.org\/articles\/present-celebration-broadcast<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can also watch part of a documentary on him here:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"450\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pX46Z8VAF7E\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>NPR also broadcast an interview with Professor Jack Sullivan about his book Hitchcock&#8217;s Music back in 2007:<\/p>\n<p><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/v2\/?i=7268315&#38;m=7334010&#38;t=audio\" height=\"386\" wmode=\"opaque\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"400\" base=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><\/embed><\/p>\n<p>And finally, this photo is a classic:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Alfred-Hitchcock-and-Barnard-Herrmann.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Alfred-Hitchcock-and-Barnard-Herrmann.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Alfred Hitchcock and Bernard Herrmann\" width=\"560\" height=\"823\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12285\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bernardherrmann.org\">The Bernard Herrmann Society<\/a><br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bernard_Herrmann\">Find out more about Bernard Herrmann at Wikipedia<\/a><br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/herrmann100.blogspot.com\/\">Herrmann Marathon Blog which looks at each score one-by-one <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The great film composer Bernard Herrmann would have been 100 today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12282,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[621,2],"tags":[414,2100],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12281"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}