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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

From the screeching strings of Psycho to the ominous tuba of Jaws, horror movie soundtracks have a unique power to unsettle us long after the credits roll. These scores don’t just accompany the ...

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 ...

Bernard Herrmann’s music for Alfred Hitchcock’s “Torn Curtain”—a harrowing and haunting score—sundered what many believe is the greatest director-composer collaboration in Hollywood history. Pressured ...

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, ...

Although Herrmann composed his last score, Taxi Driver, in 1975, the year he died, his music is far from forgotten today. Over the past few weeks, orchestras from southern Germany and the Canary ...

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 ...

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, ...