L OS ANGELES—Over five days, one of the nation's finest music venues has seen two of the finest film-music concerts in recent memory: One focused on classic movie music by seven distinguished composers, the other on music from Disney-produced films old and new. John Williams conducted the Los Angeles Philharmonic on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 16-18, at Walt Disney Concert Hall. The theme...
Fragments from Bernard Herrmann's Wuthering Heights will be performed today, November 7, in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania: The Bucknell Opera Company will mark its 20th anniversary with a gala concert on Saturday at 8 p.m. in the Rooke Recital Hall of the Weis Music Building. The program, which is free and open to the public, is directed by Catherine Payn, associate professor of music at Bucknell. The concert...
New York's modern string quartet Osso, whose members have worked with such varied artists as Jay-Z, The New Pornographers and Antony and the Johnsons, bring an adventurous tour to the Andy Warhol Museum on Wednesday. Osso is showcasing its new project on Asthmatic Kitty Records, a re-arrangement of Sufjan Stevens' electronic instrumental song cycle "Enjoy Your Rabbit." Osso previously worked...
" Carnival of Souls " ( Herk Harvey , 1962) Mary Henry ( Candace Hilligoss ) is a "tough-minded little thing," according to one of the characters of " Carnival of Souls ." They don't know the half of it . She's tough and more than a little stubborn. She's in transit, already to go to her next job as a church organist in Salt Lake City. If she's acting a bit like a "cold...
Screenwriter Ernest Lehman has stated that, in writing NORTH BY NORTHWEST, his intention was to create "the Hitchcock picture to end all Hitchcock pictures". Well, he succeeded. This may very well be the ultimate Hitchcock film. It takes all of the elements that make up one of his films, from the innocent man in the wrong place at the wrong time, to the elaborate suspense filled set pieces,...
What's the scariest thing about "Psycho?" You can take your pick during an unusual opportunity this 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.
John Williams' score for the original 1977 Star Wars movie beat off other contenders for the title such as 2001: A Space Odyssey and Close Encounters of the Third Kind. The poll was conducted by science fiction website Totalscifionline. The score to Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, composed by James Horner, came in second place, while Vangelis' haunting electro soundtrack for Blade Runner - recently...
FILMIC HALLOWEEN SPECIAL October 8th 2009 Track/Composer/Artist/Film The Murder/Bernard Herrmann/The San Diego Symphony/Psycho Theme: Nightmare On Elm Street/Charles Bernstein/Soundtrack & Theme Orchestra Nightmare On Elm Street Behind Blue Eyes/Roger Daltrey/The WhoLimp Bizkit/Gothica Clarice Howard Shore/Original Soundtrack/The Silence of the Lambs Theme: Jaws/John Williams/Royal Philharmonic...
For anybody who thinks "movie music" is inherently lightweight stuff, they need to listen to Bernard Herrmann -or Elmer Bernstein, Alex North, Max Steiner, and others. Here's Hermann's exciting, frightening cue The Death Hunt, from 1952's "On Dangerous Ground". As good as the others mentioned were, Herrmann was the best-no wonder Hitchcock used him so often. "On Dangerous Ground"...
Bassist {{Ben Allison = 1051}} has a boyish look to him, but he's carved out a impressive career for himself since graduating from New York University with a Jazz Performance degree in 1989. Here on his ninth album, 'Think Free,' Allison continues on in a recent direction that is more straightforward than the chamber jazz of earlier albums like 1998's 'Medicine Wheel' and 2002's 'Peace Pipe.' This...
Alfred Hitchcock and Bernard Herrmann-Masters of Suspense It is a period of extraordinary freedom and creativity for Hitchcock . Despite having never won an Oscar , he is one of the few film directors known to the American public by name, along with Walt Disney and Cecil B. DeMille . In fact, the "Hitchcock" name could well be considered a brand, for it appears on pulp mystery magazines and...
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Some time ago a reader asked me to recommend a list of filmscores that represent a good place to start with exploring the wonderful world of film music. I've been kicking that request around for a long time, and I'm finally going to attempt an answer. The problem is that film music is a very large field, despite that it looks, at the outset, to be fairly small . But consider: films have been around...
RATING: (WILD APPLAUSE) The 7th Voyage of Sinbad Soundtrack Listening to Bernard Herrmann is like being on a flying carpet, shuttling across the sky from one fantasy kingdom to another. The ever-changing tempos and depth of emotion in his music conjure...
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