Bernard Herrmann

Among his more than 70 scores for movies and television, Herrmann collaborated nine times with Hitchcock, including "Vertigo," "North by Northwest" and "The Birds" (which Herrmann scored only with synthesized simulations of bird cries).

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...in the Opera Bastille in 1998. For the film score of Orson Welles' Citizen Kane, Bernard Herrmann wrote a quasi-Romantic aria for the fictional opera Salammbo performed by Kane's second wife, Susan Alexander. The text is based on a speech by...

In this article: Salammbo, Phedre, Ernest Reyer, Jean Racine, Franco Casavola, Modeste Mussorgsky, Josef Matthias Hauer, Citizen Kane, and Gustave Flaubert

...for two years with an undiagnosed ailment. While housebound, he listened to the radio, and became a fan of the big band sound and Bernard Hermann's music for Orson Welles's radio dramas. Somewhat recuperated, he worked at Pittsburgh's...

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...Wuthering Heights. The couple divorced in 1948. While at CBS, Herrmann met Orson Welles, and wrote or arranged scores for his Mercury Theatre broadcasts which were adaptations of literature. He conducted music for the adaptation of H. G....

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...but none have succeeded. Orson Welles, Preston Sturges, Bernard Herrmann and even Frank Zappa tried and failed in mysterious circumstances, usually involving a fire or accident in the studio or dressing room. In 1979 a Scottish film...

In this article: Drago Montalban, London Film Festival, Orson Welles, Sandy Johnson, Preston Sturges, and Frank Zappa

...the exploration of Xanadu. In the final sequence of the film, which shows the destruction of Rosebud in the fireplace of Kane's castle, Welles choreographed the scene while he had Herrmann's cue playing on the set. For the famous operatic...

In this article: Citizen Kane, Orson Welles, Herman J. Mankiewicz, William Randolph Hearst, The Battle Over Citizen Kane, and Ted Turner