The Bernard Herrmann Society

During Radio France Montpellier Festival we are treated to a rare performance of Wuthering Heights on 14th July:

www.bernardherrmann.org /news /concerts.xdoc#427

www.wwfm.org

WWFM The Classical Network will set the stage for Oscar night with a weekend filled with music from the big screen March 5 through March 7.

'Lights, Camera Music!' will kick off Friday, March 5, with a daylong, on-air tribute to the music of John Williams (Star Wars, Harry Potter, Indiana Jones), Bernard Herrmann (Psycho, North by Northwest) and other composers behind the soundtracks of movie blockbusters. The celebration will continue through Sunday as a 'Theme Stream' an online-only program available via the station's Internet streaming.

The weekend's programming will include original music from film scores, such as Gone with the Wind, Lawrence of Arabia and The Godfather, as well as classical music masterpieces that have been immortalized in movies such as 2001: A Space Odyssey and Fantasia. The Theme Stream will also feature concert works by composers most often associated with film scores, such as Erich Wolfgang Korngold (The Adventures of Robin Hood, The Sea Hawk) and Miklos Rozsa (Spellbound, Ben-Hur).

Psycho complete with film in November:
www.bernardherrmann.org /news /concerts.xdoc#426

Dates and venues to be confirmed...

www.tippettquartet.co.uk /herrmannfest /index.html

www.bernardherrmann.org /news /concerts.xdoc#418

finally coming from Chandos in February.

www.bernardherrmann.org /news /recordings.xdoc#349

Herrmann’s complete score performed live to the film:
www.bernardherrmann.org /news /concerts.xdoc#411

KUSC presents "On Dangerous Ground: A Tribute to Bernard Herrmann." This two-hour sound portrait of one of cinema’s greatest composers will be hosted by Jon Burlingame

www.kusc.org /classical /Programming /on_dangerous_ground.php

There are quite a few all Herrmann concerts coming by the end of this year!

www.bernardherrmann.org /news /concerts.xdoc

Gold Rush: The Bastard Child of Puccini
The story behind Bernard Herrmann's only opera.
by Jim Lochner

For subscribers only:
https: / /www.screenarchives.com /fsmonline /story.cfm ?maid=2172

Universal Music Australia will release Herrmann's 1970 recording of Holst's The Planets on CD next year. It will be out on the Decca Eloquence label.

Next February, the complete scores to Herrmann’s The Devil and Daniel Webster and Steiner’s The Adventures of Don Juan coupled with Arsenic and Old Lace for Tribute Film Classics will be recorded in Moscow.

The Seattle Symphony under Adam Stern performs Bernard Herrmann's complete score with Alfred Hitchcock's original film:

www.bernardherrmann.org /news /concerts.xdoc#386

Bernard Herrmann is the Composer of the Week on BBC Radio 3
7th to 11th September 2009
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00mj39f

Bill Wrobel's site has been updated with a rundown of Herrmann's Twilight Zone Episode Ninety Years Without Slumbering

www.filmscorerundowns.net

A new article is online. Well actually Herrmann wrote it in 1946...
and a few things have changed in the British musical landscape since then but still a nice journey back in time:

www.bernardherrmann.org /articles /archive /musicalengland

Every Tuesday in September Turner Classic Movies (US Version) will show several Herrmann scored films.

The spotlight will be hosted by Robert Osborne.
The Herrmann consultant is Bruce Crawford.

The schedule:

1. Sept:
Hangover Square
Devil and Daniel Webster
Citizen Kane
The Magnificent Ambersons
On Dangerous Ground

8. Sept:
Five Fingers
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Beneath the 12-Mile Reef
The Naked and the Dead
3 Worlds of Gulliver

15. Sept:
The Trouble With Harry
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Vertigo
The 7th Voyage Of Sinbad
Mysterious Island

22. Sept:
North By Northwest
Psycho
Marnie
Joy In The Morning

29. Sept:
The Bride Wore Black
The Road Builder (aka The Night Digger)
Obsession
Taxi Driver

www.tcm.com /schedule /index.jsp ?startDate=9 /1 /2009

Alexandre Desplat will lead the Traffic Quintet at the 2009 Ghent Film Festival in a concert which will feature work from Bernard Herrmann, Jerry Goldsmith, Georges Delerue and Gabriel Yared.

www.bernardherrmann.org /news /concerts.xdoc#374

Bernard Herrmann was born on 29th June 1911 in New York.

Only two years to go to the centenary!

Herrmann's Vertigo and Psycho at the prestigious Cheltenham Festival!

www.bernardherrmann.org /news /concerts.xdoc#371

On 29 September 2009 TCM will show The Bride Wore Black, The Road Builder, Obsession and Taxi Driver

This is a very rare US outing for THE ROAD BUILDER AKA THE NIGHT DIGGER

The Baltimore Synphony Orchestra under Constantine Kitsopoulos performs Bernard Herrmann's complete score with Alfred Hitchcock's original film:
www.bernardherrmann.org /news /concerts.xdoc#362

Richard Anthony Sayer Arnell (b. 15.09.1917), Tony to his friends, passed away suddenly, but peacefully, on the afternoon of Friday 10th April, 2009.

Bernard Herrmann was one of the first major champions of Arnell's music. Other prominent conductors who championed him were Stokowski and Barbirolli. He was one of the few living composers to be championed by Beecham and currently Dutton released a complete cycle of Arnell's Symphonies.

He became a life-long friend of Herrmann and was one of the sponsors to get him into the Savile Club (the other being Malcolm Arnold).

Our condolences to friends and family.

www.richardarnell.com

www.guardian.co.uk /music /2009 /apr /24 /obituary-richard-arnell-composer
www.telegraph.co.uk /news /obituaries /culture-obituaries /music-obituaries /5252799 /Richard-Arnell.html
www.independent.co.uk /news /obituaries /richard-arnell-unjustly-neglected-composer-who-has-found-a-new-audience-through-recent-recordings-1681850.html

From the suspense of Alfred Hitchcock to the marvels of Ray Harryhausen, Bernard Herrmann spent years as one of Hollywood's most sought-after film composers. His lush and sometimes experimental scores have made movie fans scream with delight over the shower scene in Psycho (1960), sit on the edge of their seats while Sinbad fights a sword-wielding skeleton in The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad (1958), relish in the cinematic artistry of Citizen Kane (1941) or dance to the demonic jig in The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941).

www.monstersandcritics.com /smallscreen /news /article_1463695.php

Bonhams Auctioneers are putting up for auction some scores, manuscripts, letters and books on behalf of Norma Herrmann

This includes the manuscript to the Psycho suite.

The auction takes on 24th March at Bonhams, New Bond Street, London
Viewings are held on the 22nd and 23rd.

www.bonhams.com

Tribute Film Classics Launches New Website:

www.tributefilmclassics.com

Martin Silver (b 1934), former Music Librarian at UC Santa Barbara, passed away 17th February 2009. Martin established the Music Library at UC Santa Barbara and was its head until his retirement. He was a relative of Bernard Herrmann and created the Bernard Herrmann Archive at the UCSB.

The Deutsche Kinemathek in Berlin show an excursus about Hitchcock's relationship to Berlin, the exhibition devotes itself to the various fields of work involved in film production. Special focus is on his collaborations with his technical staff and the films TORN CURTAIN and THE BIRDS and Herrmann's role in them.

29th January to 10th May 2009

www.deutsche-kinemathek.de

To mark the 10th Anniversary of Bill Wrobels "Film Score Rundowns" there is a detailed rundown of Herrmann's cutting edge score for the CIMARRON STRIP episode "Knife in the Darkness"

www.filmscorerundowns.net