The winners of annual awards given out by ASCAP for the year’s most outstanding music writing and broadcasts include ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Music For The Movies: Bernard Herrmann explores the work of a composer who created music for over 50 films, collaborating with such diverse directors as Orson Welles, Nicholas Ray, and Martin Scorsese ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Music Awards rule on the Academy Awards Web site states, “Scores diluted by the use of tracked themes or other preexisting music, diminished in impact by the predominant use of songs, or assembled ...

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 ...