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 ...

Cape Symphony Orchestra will perform the iconic score to Alfred Hitchcock's 'Psycho' live in Hyannis this October.

On Aug. 15 the Boston Landmarks Orchestra performs excerpts from a meeting of proud American geniuses: Bernard Herrmann’s cantata on Herman Melville’s novel “Moby Dick.” Herrmann was to become a ...

Wednesday marks a milestone few will celebrate: the centenary of the composer Bernard Herrmann, born in New York City on June 29, 1911. He is revered by aficionados of classic film scores, and anyone ...

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, ...

Can you imagine Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho shower scene without the screeching of violins? Well, that scene was supposed to be silent. Enter a stubborn US composer by the name of Bernard Herrmann. When ...

In 1952, “Sight and Sound,” a prominent British journal of film criticism, named “Citizen Kane” the best film ever made. Orson Welles’s 1941 masterpiece held to that position for six decades until, in ...

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 ...

Everyone who loves movies knows the music of Bernard Herrmann, whether they realize it or not. The growling brass in Citizen Kane, the spiraling arpeggios in Vertigo, the rocketing fandango in North ...