Bernard Herrmann is an American composer and conductor (June 29, 1911 - December 24, 1975). He was one of the most influential film composers of all time who scored such classics as Citizen Kane, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Vertigo, Psycho and Taxi Driver. Read about Bernard Herrmann...
The BHS is an inernational society for the appreciation of the music of Bernard Herrmann. The society was started on June 29, 2000 (but this site dates back to 1994). About the Society...
You should read Steven C. Smith's biography A Heart at Fire's Center: The Life and Music of Bernard Herrmann (University of California Press, 1991). For more emphasis on the musicology, check out Graham Bruce's Bernard Herrmann: Film Music Narrative (UMI Research, 1985).
You should also try to catch the 2-and-a-half hour radio documentary Bernard Herrmann: A Celebration of His Life and Music (Crawford/Coate, 1988). This has earlier been broadcast online on this site.
There is also a splendid one hour documentary film called Music for the Movies: Bernard Herrmann by Joshua Waletzky (1992, nominated for an Academy Award), and a television documentary 20th Century Greats: Bernard Herrmann by Howard Goodall (Channel 4, 2004).
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