Vertigo Film with the San Francisco Symphony
Hitchcock Film Week Part 3:
US PREMIERE of Vertigo with Orchestra
The SFS performs Bernard Herrmann’s score to Hitchcock’s 1958 psychological thriller Vertigo—presented here for the first time with live orchestral accompaniment. No less a cinematic authority than Martin Scorsese would praise Herrmann’s stirring soundtrack: “Hitchcock’s film is about obsession, which means that it’s about circling back to the same moment, again and again . . . and the music is also built around spirals and circles, fulfillment and despair. Herrmann really understood what Hitchcock was going for—he wanted to penetrate to the heart of obsession.”