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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It is almost an infamy among Alfred Hitchcock aficionados that the bossy director once intended to give us the shower scene from Psycho without any music. Things hadn't been going well with the film, ...

Bows Blush (Beggars Banquet) Since disbanding Long Fin Killie after three underappreciated albums, Luke Sutherland has fiddled away his time playing violin in Mogwai and writing the Whitbread ...

What do stained-glass windows have in common with bloody shower curtains? It’s the concept behind the National Cathedral concert “Beyond Psycho: The Musical Genius of Bernard Herrmann,” performed by ...

Despite his struggle for acceptance in the concert-hall, Herrmann's triumphs on the cinema screen secure him a place in the composer's pantheon, argues Nick Shave 'Film music is significant in many ...

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 ...

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 ...