DVD-ROM now available!
BERNARD HERRMANN -
The Early Years:
"The camera can only do so much; the actors and the directors can only do so much. But the music can tell you what people are thinking and feeling -- that is the real function of music."
-- Bernard Herrmann 1973 lecture
at the George Eastman House
(quoted from Citizen Kane: A Filmmaker's Journey
by Harlan Lebo, Thomas Dunne Books, 2016.)
This limited edition DVD-ROM is about Bernard Herrmann's film music from the first few decades of his career and contains the following items:
Articles
--A biographical entry on Bernard Herrmann written by Roger Hall
for the American National Biography.
-- 75th anniversary tributes for two early film scores from 1941:
CITIZEN KANE -- directed by Orson Welles
ALL THE MONEY CAN BUY (aka: THE DEVIL & DANIEL WEBSTER) -- directed by William Dieterle
--Article by Steve Vertlieb about the two-and-a-half hour radio documentary on Bernard Herrmann's music produced by Bruce Crawford and Bob Coate and first broadcast on KIOS-FM in 1988. The program included discussions of CITIZEN KANE and THE DEVIL AND DANIEL WEBSTER.
--Tributes in the film Music in Focus Series:
--VERTIGO (1958)
--PSYCHO (1960)
Radio appearances
1. CITIZEN KANE:
50th anniversary tribute to CITIZEN KANE on "Conversations" program onWBET-AM.
Click link in the box to hear an excerpt from this program.
Also a rare radio broadcast from 1949 with the concert suite, "Welles Raises Kane,"
conducted by Bernard Herrmann.
2. Roger Hall presents a Herrmann tribute on "Music America"
on WGBH-FM in Boston, with excerpts from
THE DEVIL AND DANIEL WEBSTER,
conducted by Bernard Herrmann.
Video appearance
"At The Library" - Roger Hall is the guest on a cable TV program speaking about movie songs and scores,
including film music by Bernard Herrmann, especially his music for VERTIGO.
The DVD-ROM, "Bernard Herrmann: The Early Years,"
has been produced as a fund raiser for Film Music Review.
The disc is playable on a computer or separate CD/DVD drive
with text files
and with audio and video highlights.
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Other Herrmann Tributes by Roger Hall:
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OBSESSION -
A Tribute to
Bernard Herrmann
Recommended Books
This book by Harlan Lebo is the best researched and most interesting read on this film.
Full of fascinating details, including about the music score by Bernard Herrmann.
This is a must read for all admirers of CITIZEN KANE.
Highest Recommendation!
-- Roger Hall, Film Music Review
Citizen Kane: A Filmmaker's Journey
by Harlan Lebo
Also highly recommended is this book about the film composer:
A Heart At Heart's Center: The Life and Music of Bernard Herrmann
by Steven C. Smith
Recommended Videos
Blu-ray 70th Anniversary Ultimate Collector's Edition (3 discs)
DVD - CITIZEN KANE (2 Disc Special Edition)
DVD - THE DEVIL AND DANIEL WEBSTER
Film Music Review (Home page)
