Hitchcock & Herrmann — the alliteration rolls off the tongue almost as agreeably as the collaboration between Alfred ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bernard Herrmann, who gave “Citizen Kane” (1941) its eerie, jolly sonic admixture, “Psycho” (1960) its nervous system and “Taxi Driver” (1976) its lonely, perversely romantic noir ache, was born this ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the second episode highlighting the work of Bernard Herrmann, we'll hear him conduct music from his most famous film score, his Oscar-winning score, a score inspired by Greek myth, as well as ...

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, ...

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 ...

The unearthing of an obscure work by film composer Bernard Herrmann was the highlight of Monday night’s concert in Samueli Theater, the final event in the Pacific Symphony’s annual American Composers ...

June 29, 2011 marks the centenary of the birth of Bernard Herrmann, one of America's most innovative and influential composers. He is best known for his film scores for such classics as "Citizen Kane, ...