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CD Review: Jane Eyre
Nobody conjures up unrequited love like those wacky Brontë sisters. And with all the doom and gloom of its Gothic trappings, there’s a reason why JANE EYRE has remained a classic for 165 years—Jane is one strong-willed
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9 Favorite Film Scores of 1976
1976…the year I discovered film music. It’s an important year for me. With my purchase of THE OMEN soundtrack, and for the last 35 years, film music became my preferred listening of choice and eventually
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9 Favorite Film Scores of 1962
August is my birthday month. Back in school it sucked because kids never bothered to remember your birthday during the summer. As a young adult, I used to have a mental list that I’d
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Anna and the King of Siam
If you get a sense of déjà vu watching ANNA AND THE KING OF SIAM, then you may be more familiar with the story’s more popular incarnation, the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, THE KING AND I.
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CD Review: The Film Music of Bernard Herrmann
Chandos continues their excellent line of re-recordings with THE FILM MUSIC OF BERNARD HERRMANN. The generous 77-minute album contains two long suites from Herrmann’s groundbreaking score for CITIZEN KANE (1941) and HANGOVER SQUARE (1945).
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The Bastard Child of Puccini
Published in Film Score Monthly Online October 2009 “Once the opera is done,” Bernard Herrmann wrote to his ex-wife, writer Lucille Fletcher, “I shall never write another note again.” Herrmann’s opera, Wuthering Heights, based
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Book Review: A Heart At Fire’s Center – The Life and Music of Bernard Herrmann
Writing about music is difficult. How to put aural sounds into language is a subjective, and often frustrating, if not futile, exercise. These blog posts are a testament to that fact. It’s something I
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Storm Clouds Gather
Arthur Benjamin‘s greatest success came at the hands of another composer. In 1956, Alfred Hitchcock remade his 1935 film THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH, this time starring Jimmy Stewart and Doris Day as
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The Devil and Daniel Webster
To close out a week in which my writing efforts have been alternating between Bernard Herrmann and LORD OF THE RINGS concert coverage, let’s celebrate with Herrmann’s Oscar. The innocuously-titled ALL THAT MONEY CAN BUY
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9 Favorite Scores of Bernard Herrmann
I have been diving deep into the works of Bernard Herrmann the last few weeks while researching his opera, WUTHERING HEIGHTS, for my upcoming “Gold Rush” column at Film Score Monthly Online. So who better to
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