Bernard Herrmann

...craft a sound with just as much goofy chutzpah as Lambert himself. "Soaked" features strings that are as frenzied as anything Bernard Herrmann cooked up for his classic Hitchcock scores. "Loaded Smile" mixes in a bit of '80s alterna-rock,...

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...out of "Leave Her to Heaven" and a score (by Alberto Iglesias) that carries conscious echoes of the vortex of strings Bernard Herrmann created for "Vertigo." But I think the spot-the-references challenge is a bit of a trap: As fun as it...

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...task is to remold his desires into a finished work of art, and Alberto Iglesias's music is in deep and breathless pursuit of Bernard Herrmann-seems a touch too long, too airless, and too content with its own contrivances to stir the...

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...must have been around for years. Even on a smaller screen, the kinetic movement of the type and the staccato score by Bernard Herrmann hint at the restlessness that will follow the viewer throughout the film. The film was released in...

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...set of pure musical indulgence, occupying an emotional, nocturnal world. The Cinematic Orchestra - citing the Hitchcock composer Bernard Herrmann as an inspiration - use a small cluster of notes to create tension and release. Even the upbeat...

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...to remaster the Alfred Hitchcock-Cary Grant-Eva Marie Saint masterpiece. And let's not forget Ernest Lehman's tangy script and Bernard Herrmann's perfect score. MGM's VistaVision was darker than the splashier renderings from Paramount.

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...the president's noses on Mount Rushmore as they are pursued by a group of nefarious spies? Then there's the pulsating score by Bernard Herrmann, one of the great screen composer's most evocative works. In fact, Alfred Hitchcock's romantic...

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...movie plots of all time. But who cares whether it all adds up when you've got Cary Grant at his cheekiest and most charming, Bernard Herrmann's iconic score, Saul Bass' slick opening titles, and, of course, the indelible Mount Rushmore...

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...recommended Owen. 1939: Orson Welles narrates a Mercury Theatre Group production featuring Barrymore as Scrooge, with music by Bernard Herrmann, who will do the music for Citizen Kane. Barrymore also plays Scrooge in a popular 1954...

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...week to see and hear "Psycho" projected on a large screen at Benaroya Hall while the Seattle Symphony Orchestra performs composer Bernard Herrmann's famously anxious score for strings. Anthony Perkins and a taxidermied friend in "Psycho."

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