Bernard Herrmann Festival
Friday, April 15, 2016:
Bernard Herrmann “Interplay”
Georgetown University (McNeir Auditorium) – Free admission
PART ONE:
1:15 pm
–Dan Gediman on radio drama (with audio clips)
–Corwin/Herrmann: “Untitled” (1944) – radio play with live actors and GU Orchestra (world premiere of the reconstruction by Christopher Husted). Directed by Anna Celenza
–Dorothy Herrmann on her father’s magnum opus, the opera Wuthering Heights (with audio clips and a film clip from the film The Ghost and Mrs. Muir)
–Discussion: Dan Gediman, Dorothy Herrmann, Christopher Husted, Neil Lerner, Anna Celenza, Angel Gil-Ordonez; Joseph Horowitz, host
PART TWO:
7:30 pm
–Dan Gediman on the legendary Norman Corwin/Bernard Herrmann collaboration, illustrating an organic interpenetration of script and music (with live excerpts from “Untitled” with the GU Orchestra)
–8:45: Christopher Husted on the CBS Symphony, created by William Paley and conducted by Herrmann as a showcase for new and unfamiliar music (the antithesis of David Sarnoff’s NBC Symphony, with Toscanini). (with audio clips)
–9:15: Neil Lerner on Herrmann the film composer – how his collaborations with Orson Welles and Alfred Hitchcock built on his radio work with Corwin (with film clips)
–9:45: Discussion: Dan Gediman, Dorothy Herrmann, Christopher Husted, Neil Lerner, Anna Celenza, David and Diane Corwin Okarski, Angel Gil-Ordonez; Joseph Horowitz, host
Saturday, April 16, 1 to 6 pm:
“The Music of Psycho”
National Gallery of Art Auditorium – Free admission
PostClassical Ensemble conducted by Angel Gil-Ordóñez
1pm – Dan Gediman introduces “Whitman” (with audio clip)
1:15 pm – The classic Norman Corwin/Bernard Herrmann radio play “Whitman” (1944) with Sean Craig as Walt Whitman and PCE conducted by Angel Gil-Ordonez (world premiere of the reconstruction by Christopher Husted). Directed by Anna Celenza
1:45 pm – “The Music of Psycho” – a presentation by Neil Lerner and Christopher Husted, with live musical excerpts (Herrmann and Bartok) performed by PCE conducted by Angel Gil-Ordonez (60 min)
2:45 pm — Intermission
3 pm – Psycho (1960) – (110 min)
5 pm – Discussion (Dorothy Herrmann, Dan Gediman, Neil Lerner, Christopher Husted, Anna Celenza, David and Diane Corwin Okarski, Angel Gil-Ordonez; Joseph Horowitz, host)
Sunday April 17, 2016 at 3:30 pm: Concert
The National Gallery of Art West Garden Court – Free admission
PostClassical Ensemble conducted by Angel Gil-Ordóñez
Commentary by John Mauceri
David Jones, clarinet
Netanel Draiblate and Eva Cappelletti-Chao, violins
Phillipe Chao, viola
Benjamin Capps, cello
Bernard Herrmann: Souvenir de Voyage (Quintet for Clarinet and Strings (1967)
Bernard Herrmann: Sinfonietta for Strings (1935)
Bernard Herrmann: Psycho: A Narrative for String Orchestra (1968, restored and edited by John Mauceri in 1999)
DC Premiere
Discussion: Festival Wrap-Up with John Mauceri, Christopher Husted, Angel Gil-Ordonez, and Joseph Horowitz
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