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Bernard Herrmann - Psycho
Bernard Herrmann - The Day The Earth Stood Still
Bernard Herrmann - Taxi Driver
Jerry Goldsmith - Chinatown
Alex North - A Streetcar Named Desire
and more.
Steven Smith be signing copies of A HEART AT FIRE’S CENTER: THE LIFE AND MUSIC OF BERNARD HERRMANN
at the bookstore Every Picture Tells a Story in Santa Monica, CA on Friday, 24th June at 6:30,
This will be followed by a showing of CITIZEN KANE/THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS across the street at the Aero Theater on Friday, 24th June at 7:30.
He will also be introducing VERTIGO at the Aero on Sunday, 26th June at 7:30.
Herrmann: Little Girl Lost (World Concert Premiere)
etc .
Newman: 20th Century Fox Fanfare
Korngold: Music from The Sea Hawk
Herrmann: Theme from North By Northwest
Jarre: Overture from Lawrence of Arabia
Barry: James Bond Themes
Barry: Music from Out of Africa
Kamen: Overture from Robin Hood Prince of Thieves
Danny Elfman.
Program to include music by Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Bernard Herrmann, Alex North, Elmer Bernstein, Jerry Goldsmith and John Williams. .
Shostakovich: Festive Overture Mussorsky: Pictures at an Exibition Williams: Memoirs of a Geisha - Sayuri's Theme Goldsmith: Fireworks Herrmann: For the Fallen (conducted by William Stromberg).
Tiomkin: Dial M for Murder Tiomkin: I Confess Waxman: Rear Window Rozsa: Spellbound Herrmann: Vertigo Herrmann: Psycho Herrmann: Marnie Benjamin: Storm Clouds Cantata.
Music by Herrmann, Rota, Bernstein, Mancini, etc.
Bernard Herrmann: Suite from Vertigo (cond by John Kendall Bailey) Scott Amendola: Fade to Orange - World Premiere Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4.
Bernstein: Overture to Candide Barber: Adagio for Strings Copland: Appalachian Spring Herrmann: Moby Dick.
COPLAND: Fanfare for the Common Man HERRMANN: For the Fallen WEILL: Walt Whitman Songs GOULD: Amber Waves DAUGHERTY: Mount Rushmore for Chorus and Orchestra.
The Day the Earth Stood Still King of the Khyber Rifles A Portrait of Hitch (from The Trouble With Harry) The Naked and The Dead North By Northwest Scherzo Macabre (from Jason and the Argonauts) It's Alive! and world premiere of William Malpede's "Eye of the Storm: A Portrait of Benny".
Organist Stephan Tharp opens the program with adaptations of "The Man Who Knew Too Much", "Vertigo" and "Psycho". Then organist Christoph Bull provides a live improvised score to the early Hitchcock silent film "The Lodger".
Herrmann: Citizen Kane Raksin: Laura Williams: Superman, ET The Sound of Music etc Quote: "The first half honors composers of 20th Century Fox: Alfred Newman, Bernard Herrmann, David Raksin and John Williams.
KORNGOLD Suite from The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex NORTH "Forest Meeting" and March from Spartacus HERRMANN "Scene d'Amour" from Vertigo WAXMAN Excerpts from Sunset Blvd.
Bill Wrobel gives us a peak inside the Bernard Herrmann archives at the Department of Special Collections, Donald C. Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara, and score samples from UCLA Music Library Special Collections.
Rozsa: Toccata Capricciosa for solo cello Korngold: Songs for Baritone and Piano (with film clips from "The Sea Hawk") Chihara: Minidoka for Clarinet, Viola, Harp and Percussion (with film clips from "Farewell to Manzanar") Herrmann: Souvenirs du Voyage for Clarinet and String Quartet.
Hans Salter & Paul Dessau: House of Frankenstein, Suite Frank Skinner: Abott and Costello meet Frankenstein, Main Title Max Steiner: King Kong, Suite Bernard Herrmann: Mysterious Island, Suite Bernard Herrmann: On Dangerous Ground, Death Hunt Irving Gertz: Deadly Mantis Joseph LoDuca.
Night on Bald Mountain - Modest Mussorgsky Danse Macabe - Camille Saint Saens Funeral March of a Marionette - Charles Gounod Symphonie Fantastique (Excerpts) - Hector Berlioz Nightmare Before Christmas Suite - Danny Elfman Prelude and Murder from Psycho - Bernard Herrmann Harry Potter Symphonic Suit.
Mozart: "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik" Herrmann: "Psycho Suite" Borodin: "Nocturne" Assad: "Dreamscape" Strauss.
Bernstein: Symphonic Suite from On the Waterfront Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Opus 43 Herrmann: Suite from Psycho Rozsa: Spellbound Concerto Williams: Suite from E.T.
Los Angeles, October 1996
Esa-Pekka Salonen conducting the Los Angeles Philharmonic
The Los Angeles Philharmonic recently performed excerpts from four Herrmann scores, at a Tribute to the Movies concert fundraiser.
