Cinema was changed by these 10 movie scores, like 'Psycho' by Bernard Herrmann, 'King Kong' by Max Steiner, and 'Star Wars' ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra is staging a concert that illustrates how the music of Bernard Herrmann had a major influence on the impact of Alfred Hitchcock's films, writes Andrew Stephens. You ...

In many ways, it’s remarkable that the composer Bernard Herrmann, who died at age 64 in 1975, is as well known as he is. His scores to Alfred Hitchcock’s “Vertigo” (1958) and “Psycho” (1960) remain ...

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 ...

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 ...

Adrian Edwards Bernard Herrmann said ‘I think that film music is an art and that films need music and music needs film’. John Amis Well, I think it can be an art. I mean Prokofiev, Walton, sometimes ...

In 1966, film composer Bernard Herrmann, still smarting from the abrupt end to his creative partnership with Alfred Hitchcock, received a request from François Truffaut to write the music for his ...