And Herrmann wrote a score that I think is the most extreme example of what music can do: to take what is potentially in a film, but not there yet, and addit to the movie to the degree that it went ...

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 Minnesota Opera is celebrating the centenary of legendary Hollywood composer Bernard Herrmann with the first major production of his only opera, Wuthering Heights, which was completed in ...

It is almost an infamy among Alfred Hitchcock aficionados that the bossy director once intended to give us the shower scene from Psycho without any music. Things hadn't been going well with the film, ...

What’s most impressive about Herrmann’s score for “Vertigo” is just how much he understood what Alfred Hitchcock was going for. The musical cues are astonishing, as Herrmann creates an atmosphere of ...

“Hitchcock & Herrmann” is an especially fun read, even for those who aren’t particularly knowledgeable about film music, because the two personalities in question are at least as interesting as their ...