In his final days, the New York-born Bernard Herrmann, who'd worked with Orson Welles and Alfred Hitchcock, helped create the ...

Composer Bernard Herrmann emerged from the Golden Age of cinema and contributed a signature sound to some of history's most significant films. While his name may not be known to most of today's ...

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 ...

In the second episode highlighting the work of Bernard Herrmann, we'll hear him conduct music from his most famous film score, his Oscar-winning score, a score inspired by Greek myth, as well as ...

Doris Day and James Stewart star in the director’s 1956 film, a brilliant and dramatic blend of action and Bernard Herrmann’s ...

Alfred Hitchcock chuckled with delight at the recording session for the 1955 movie “The Trouble with Harry.” Bernard Herrmann, the composer, had deftly translated the darkly comic tone of the story ...

Adrian Edwards Bernard Herrmann said ‘I think that film music is an art and that films need music and music needs film’. John Amis Well, I think it can be an art. I mean Prokofiev, Walton, sometimes ...

Renowned for his short but masterful musical cues, pioneering use of electronics and fiercely independent working methods, Bernard Herrmann is widely regarded as one of the greatest American composers ...

This is FRESH AIR. Bernard Herrmann composed some of the best and best-known film music ever written, especially the scores he wrote for Alfred Hitchcock. But classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz ...