Bernard Herrmann

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Twisted Nerve 01:28 Tools
Thank God For The Rain 00:00 Tools
Prelude 00:00 Tools
Main Title 02:57 Tools
Cleaning The Cab 00:00 Tools
Main Title - Taxi Driver 02:17 Tools
The .44 Magnum Is A Monster 00:00 Tools
Theme From Taxi Driver 02:14 Tools
The Murder 01:08 Tools
The Days Do Not End 00:00 Tools
Sport And Iris 02:20 Tools
Betsy in a White Dress 02:14 Tools
Finale 01:32 Tools
I Work the Whole City 00:00 Tools
Prelude And Rooftop 04:42 Tools
The $20 Bill / Target Practice 00:00 Tools
I Still Can't Sleep / The Cannot Touch Her (Betsy's Theme) 00:00 Tools
Scene D'Amour 05:09 Tools
Overture 00:00 Tools
Diary of a Taxi Driver (album version) 00:00 Tools
Taxi Driver (Main Title) 02:14 Tools
The City 00:00 Tools
Carlotta's Portrait 00:00 Tools
A Reluctant Hero / Betsy / End Credits 00:00 Tools
Theme From Taxi Driver (Reprise) 02:14 Tools
The Beach 00:00 Tools
Phone Call / I Realize How Much She Is Like the Others / A Strange Customer / Watching Palantine on TV / You're Gonna Die in Hell / Betsy's Theme / Hitting the Girl 00:00 Tools
The Letter 00:00 Tools
The Forest 00:00 Tools
Temptation 00:00 Tools
God's Lonely Man (album Version With Alternate Ending) 00:00 Tools
Marion 00:00 Tools
Farewell 00:00 Tools
The Bay 00:00 Tools
Variation on Scotty Tails Madeleine 00:00 Tools
The Bedroom 00:00 Tools
Marion And Sam 00:00 Tools
By The Fireside 00:00 Tools
Flight 00:00 Tools
The Streets 00:00 Tools
The Nightmare And Dawn 03:33 Tools
Getting Into Shape / Listen You Screwheads / Gun Play / Dear Father & Mother / The Card / Soap Opera 00:00 Tools
The Rainstorm 00:00 Tools
Farewell And The Tower 00:00 Tools
The Dream 00:00 Tools
Assassination Attempt / After the Carnage 00:00 Tools
The Package 00:00 Tools
Diary Of A Taxi Driver 00:00 Tools
The Bathroom 01:02 Tools
Hotel Room 00:00 Tools
The Window 00:00 Tools
Escape 00:00 Tools
The Peephole 00:00 Tools
Nocturne / The Flashlight / The Robot / Space Control 00:00 Tools
The Curtain 00:00 Tools
The Madhouse 00:00 Tools
The Office 00:00 Tools
The Swamp 00:00 Tools
Goodnight and the Park 00:00 Tools
Departure 00:00 Tools
The Knife 00:00 Tools
The Stairs 00:00 Tools
The Water 00:00 Tools
The Search 00:00 Tools
The Car Lot 00:00 Tools
Klaatu 02:08 Tools
The Shadow 00:00 Tools
The Porch 00:00 Tools
The Hill 00:00 Tools
Phone Booth 00:00 Tools
The First Floor 00:00 Tools
Panic 00:00 Tools
The Cellar 00:00 Tools
The Car 00:00 Tools
All The Animals Come Out At Night 00:00 Tools
The Toys 00:00 Tools
Psycho Suite 00:00 Tools
I Still Can't Sleep/They Cannot Touch Her (Betsy's Theme) 00:00 Tools
Nocturne 00:00 Tools
Main Title (from "Taxi Driver") 02:14 Tools
Psycho 06:26 Tools
A Reluctant Hero/Betsy/End Credits 04:42 Tools
God's Lonely Man - Album Version, With Alternate Ending 00:00 Tools
Patrol Car 00:00 Tools
I Still Can't Sleep / They Cannot Touch Her (Betsy's Theme) 00:00 Tools
The Elevator 00:00 Tools
Cabin 10 00:00 Tools
Cabin 1 00:00 Tools
Scotty Trails Madeline 00:00 Tools
prelude/outer space/radar 00:00 Tools
Lincoln Memorial 00:00 Tools
Assassination Attempt/After The Carnage 00:00 Tools
Arlington 00:00 Tools
Theme From Psycho (Prelude) 00:00 Tools
The Necklace - The Return - Finale 00:00 Tools
Vertigo Prelude and Rooftop 00:00 Tools
Solar Diamonds 00:00 Tools
The Parlor 00:00 Tools
The Past And The Girl 00:00 Tools
Bernard Herrmann / Main Title 02:14 Tools
Taxi Driver 00:00 Tools
The Patrol Car 00:00 Tools
Vertigo 00:00 Tools
Gort / The Visor / The Telescope 00:00 Tools
Kidnapped 00:00 Tools
Temple Dance 00:00 Tools
Cleanup 00:00 Tools
Discovery 00:00 Tools
The Prison 00:00 Tools
Theme From Taxi Driver - reprise 00:00 Tools
The Day the Earth Stood Still 00:00 Tools
Taxi Driver - Taxi Driver 00:00 Tools
Rebirth 00:00 Tools
Interlude 00:00 Tools
Theme from "Taxi Driver" 00:00 Tools
The Necklace / The Return / Finale 00:00 Tools
The Body 00:00 Tools
The Parlour 00:00 Tools
The Door 00:00 Tools
God's Lonely Man 00:00 Tools
Bernard Herrmann / Thank God for the Rain 01:41 Tools
Duo 00:00 Tools
Bernard Herrmann / Cleaning the Cab 00:00 Tools
The Wild Ride 00:00 Tools
Bernard Herrmann / I Still Can't Sleep / They Cannot Touch Her (Betsy's Theme) 00:00 Tools
Jason Prelude 00:00 Tools
Scotty Tails Madeleine 00:00 Tools
North by Northwest 00:00 Tools
Two Dollars 00:00 Tools
The Airport 00:00 Tools
The Fight 00:00 Tools
Phone Call/I Realize How Much She Is Like The Others/A Strange Customer/Watching Palantine On TV/You're Gonna Die In Hell/Betsy's Theme/Hitting The Girl 00:00 Tools
The U.N. 00:00 Tools
Psycho: A Suite for strings: The Murder 00:00 Tools
Psycho Suite (Theme from "Psycho") 00:00 Tools
Information Desk 00:00 Tools
The Match Box 00:00 Tools
The Ridge 00:00 Tools
Teddy Bear Wired 00:00 Tools
Bernard Herrmann / The .44 Magnum is a Monster 00:00 Tools
The Phone Booth 00:00 Tools
Anna and the King of Slam: Coronation 00:00 Tools
Bernard Herrmann / A Reluctant Hero / Betsy / End Credits 00:00 Tools
Theme From Psycho (The City) 00:00 Tools
The House 00:00 Tools
The Crash 00:00 Tools
I Still Can't Sleep/The Cannot Touch Her (Betsy's Theme) 00:00 Tools
Destruction 00:00 Tools
The Question 00:00 Tools
Bernard Herrmann / Getting Into Shape / Listen You Screwheads / Gun Play / Dear Father & Mother / The Card / Soap Opera 00:00 Tools
Bernard Herrmann / Robert DeNiro / Diary of a Taxi Driver (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Conversation Piece 00:00 Tools
The Reunion 00:00 Tools
The Return 00:00 Tools
Bernard Herrmann / Sport and Iris 00:00 Tools
the auction 00:00 Tools
Prelude And Outer Space 00:00 Tools
The Cafeteria 00:00 Tools
The Olympic Games 00:00 Tools
Space Drift 00:00 Tools
Bernard Herrmann / The $20 Bill / Target Practice 00:00 Tools
The Ledge 00:00 Tools
I Still Can't Sleep / They Cannot Touch Her 00:00 Tools
Psycho Theme 00:00 Tools
The Shooting 00:00 Tools
River Bank 00:00 Tools
Cheers 00:00 Tools
Getting Into Shape/Listen You Screwheads/Gun Play/Dear Father & Mother/The Card/Soap Opera 00:00 Tools
Signals 00:00 Tools
On the Rocks 00:00 Tools
The Gates 00:00 Tools
The Balcony 00:00 Tools
Bernard Herrmann / Assassination Attempt / After the Carnage 00:00 Tools
Phone Call/I Realize How Much She Is Like The Others/A Strange Customer/Watchin 00:00 Tools
Outer Space / Radar 00:00 Tools
The Message 00:00 Tools
Bernard Herrmann / Dave Blume / Theme from Taxi Driver 00:00 Tools
Hera Speaks 00:00 Tools
The Stone Faces 00:00 Tools
Love Music 00:00 Tools
The Airplane 00:00 Tools
The Car Lot, Pt. 1 00:00 Tools
Bernard Herrmann / Dave Blume / I Work the Whole City 00:00 Tools
Madeleine and Carlotta's Portrait 00:00 Tools
The Prophecy / The Battle 00:00 Tools
Psycho, Suite: Prelude / The Murder / Finale 00:00 Tools
The Storm 00:00 Tools
The Cliff 00:00 Tools
The Feast 00:00 Tools
Mount Olympus 00:00 Tools
The T.V. 00:00 Tools
Space Stations 00:00 Tools
Forever 00:00 Tools
Prelude, The City, Marion And Sam, Temptation 00:00 Tools
Fahrenheit 451: Fire Engine 00:00 Tools
Reprise: Theme From "Taxi Driver" 00:00 Tools
Scherzo Macabre 00:00 Tools
Bagdad 00:00 Tools
Acastus and Jason Fight 00:00 Tools
Bernard Herrmann / Dave Blume / Betsy in a White Dress 00:00 Tools
Poetry 00:00 Tools
Fahrenheit 451: The Reading 00:00 Tools
Scotty Tails Madeleine (Including Madeleine's First Appearance / Madeleine's Car / The Flower Shop / The Alleyway / The Mission / Mission Organ) 00:00 Tools
Bernard Herrmann / Dave Blume / Theme from Taxi Driver (Reprise) 00:00 Tools
Prelude And Rooftop - From "Vertigo" 00:00 Tools
Fahrenheit 451: Prelude 00:00 Tools
Bernard Herrmann / Phone Call / I Realize How Much She is Like the Others / A Strange Customer / Watching Palantine on TV / You're Gonna Die in Hell / Betsy's Theme / Hitting the Girl 00:00 Tools
The Pool 00:00 Tools
Getting Into Shape/Listen You Screwheads/Gun Play/Dear Father & Mother/The Card 00:00 Tools
The Ship 00:00 Tools
Starlight 00:00 Tools
The Oak Grove / The Ascension 00:00 Tools
Marnie 00:00 Tools
Vertigo Scene d'Amour 05:10 Tools
Time Suspense 00:00 Tools
The Titans / The Chamber / The Door 00:00 Tools
Valse Lente 00:00 Tools
Bernard Herrmann / Dave Blume / The Days Do Not End 00:00 Tools
Psycho - A Suite For Strings: The Murder 00:00 Tools
The Station 00:00 Tools
Argo 00:00 Tools
The Twisted Nerve 02:53 Tools
I Still Can't Sleep 00:00 Tools
The Reading 00:00 Tools
Danger 00:00 Tools
Hera's Effigy 00:00 Tools
Fahrenheit 451: The Bedroom 00:00 Tools
Medea 00:00 Tools
The Spring Sea 00:00 Tools
The Search (B) 00:00 Tools
The Church 00:00 Tools
Tycho 00:00 Tools
The Garden 00:00 Tools
Hotel Lobby 00:00 Tools
Twisted Nerve (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
The Sea 00:00 Tools
Psycho - Prelude 00:00 Tools
Moonscape 00:00 Tools
The Cave 00:00 Tools
Airlock 00:00 Tools
It's a Most Unusual Day 00:00 Tools
Talos / The Boat / The Wreck 00:00 Tools
The Harpies 00:00 Tools
Overture - Main Title 00:00 Tools
The Capture 00:00 Tools
Sun Clouds (Western Suite) 00:00 Tools
Medea's Ship 00:00 Tools
Main Title (Taxi Driver) 00:00 Tools
Tiny Princess 00:00 Tools
The Late Sea 00:00 Tools
Psycho, Film Score 00:00 Tools
Taxi Driver (theme) 00:00 Tools
The Car Lot, Pt. 2 00:00 Tools
Prelude / Outer Space / Radar 00:00 Tools
The Earth 00:00 Tools
The Detective 00:00 Tools
Assasination Attempt / After The Carnage 00:00 Tools
The Attack / Talos Heel / Talos Death 00:00 Tools
Fahrenheit 451: The Road 00:00 Tools
Triton 00:00 Tools
Sorrow / Hera's Warning 00:00 Tools
Exit 00:00 Tools
Rosalie 00:00 Tools
Car Crash 00:00 Tools
The Man Who Knew Too Much: Prelude 00:00 Tools
The Princess 00:00 Tools
Bernard Hermann - Twisted Nerve 01:27 Tools
Phone Call 00:00 Tools
Theme From 'Taxi Driver' 00:00 Tools
North By Northwest - Prelude 00:00 Tools
Galop 00:00 Tools
In the Still of the Night 00:00 Tools
Max 00:00 Tools
Sorrow 00:00 Tools
Swimming 00:00 Tools
Vertigo Suite: I. Prelude 00:00 Tools
Night Magic 00:00 Tools
God's Lonely Man (End Title) 00:00 Tools
Goodbye 00:00 Tools
Andante Cantabile 00:00 Tools
The Day The Earth Stood Still - Outer Space 00:00 Tools
Fahrenheit 451: The Nightmare 00:00 Tools
The Nightmare 00:00 Tools
The Painting 00:00 Tools
Fashion Show 00:00 Tools
Rain 00:00 Tools
Taxi Driver [Taxi Driver] 00:00 Tools
The Cliffs 00:00 Tools
The Bathroom, The Murder, The Body, The Office, The Curtain, The Water, The Car, The Swamp 00:00 Tools
The Cyclops 00:00 Tools
The Pad & Pencil 00:00 Tools
The Snows of Kilimanjaro: Memory Waltz 00:00 Tools
The Nets / The Rope / The Cage 00:00 Tools
Sport & Iris 00:00 Tools
Second Meeting 00:00 Tools
The Stone Gate 00:00 Tools
Alone 00:00 Tools
Getting Into Shape 00:00 Tools
Fahrenheit 451: Flamethrower 00:00 Tools
About Ships 00:00 Tools
The Search, The First Floor, Cabin 10, Cabin 1 00:00 Tools
Manuscript Reading And Snow Picture 00:00 Tools
Transformation 00:00 Tools
Sultan's Feast 00:00 Tools
Charles Meets Thatcher 00:00 Tools
The Empty Room 00:00 Tools
Martin's Anger 00:00 Tools
The Hydra / The Hydra Fight 00:00 Tools
Crash of the Cropduster 00:00 Tools
Radar 00:00 Tools
The Fog 00:00 Tools
Sport and Irs 00:00 Tools
Gort 00:00 Tools
Litany 00:00 Tools
The Skull 00:00 Tools
The Prophesy 00:00 Tools
Farewell - The Tower 00:00 Tools
Love? 00:00 Tools
Mother's Sacrifice 00:00 Tools
Fahrenheit 451: The Garden 00:00 Tools
The Auction & The Airport 00:00 Tools
The Stolen Fleece / The Teeth 00:00 Tools
The Wild Ride / Car Crash 00:00 Tools
Citizen Kane - Overture 00:00 Tools
The Egg 00:00 Tools
Second Manuscript 00:00 Tools
The Search, Pt. 2 00:00 Tools
Bryn Mawr 00:00 Tools
Dawn 00:00 Tools
Kidnap 00:00 Tools
The Path / The Cure 00:00 Tools
North by Northwest: Overture 00:00 Tools
Fahrenheit 451: Flowers of Fire 00:00 Tools
Theme from Psycho (Crooks & Gunn Psych! Remix) 00:00 Tools
The Dragon 00:00 Tools
I Still Can't Sleep - They Cannot Touch Her (Betsy's Theme) 00:00 Tools
Sam's Story 00:00 Tools
North By Northwest Prelude 00:00 Tools
The Highway 00:00 Tools
Cady Meets The Girls 00:00 Tools
Kane's New Office 00:00 Tools
Prelude - Outer Space - Radar 00:00 Tools
A Reluctant Hero / Betsy End Credits 00:00 Tools
Psycho: The Murder 00:00 Tools
Cafeteria Shooting 00:00 Tools
Cobra Dance 00:00 Tools
Flight, The Patrol Car, The Car Lot, The Package, The Rainstorm 00:00 Tools
Houseboat 00:00 Tools
The Search, The Shadow, Phone Booth, The Porch, The Stairs, The Knife 00:00 Tools
Bernstein's Narration 00:00 Tools
Pastoral 00:00 Tools
Twisted Nerve - Bernard Herrmann 00:00 Tools
The Wrong Man 00:00 Tools
Hornpipe Polka 00:00 Tools
The Ghost 00:00 Tools
Lucy Takes Gull Cottage 00:00 Tools
The Outer Space Suite Prelude 00:00 Tools
The Apparition 00:00 Tools
The Wedding 00:00 Tools
Carter's Exit 00:00 Tools
Bedtime 00:00 Tools
Chronicle Scherzo 00:00 Tools
Daniel's Aunt 00:00 Tools
Sondra At Monument 00:00 Tools
Taxi Driver Theme 00:00 Tools
The Streets (Outtake) 00:00 Tools
The Pad And Pencil 00:00 Tools
Hospital 00:00 Tools
Theme And Variations 00:00 Tools
The Glass ball 00:00 Tools
Psycho (A Narrative For Orchestra) 00:00 Tools
The Duel With the Skeleton 01:38 Tools
The Nightmare - Dawn 03:33 Tools
The Vase 00:00 Tools
Lucia 00:00 Tools
Hotel Room, The Window, The Parlour, The Madhouse, The Peephole 00:00 Tools
North by Northwest Theme 00:00 Tools
Prelude / Rooftop - From "Vertigo" 00:00 Tools
Getting Into Shape / Listen You Screw Headsgun Play Dear Father & Mother Card Soap Opera 00:00 Tools
Strip Search 00:00 Tools
Goodnight - The Park 00:00 Tools
Valse Presentation 00:00 Tools
Dictation 00:00 Tools
Vertigo - Scene D'Amour 00:00 Tools
Theme from "Psycho" (The Murder) 00:00 Tools
The Homecoming 00:00 Tools
Phone Call Realize How Much She Is Like The Others / A Strange Watching Palantine On Tv / You're Gonna Die in Hell / Betsy's Theme / Hitting The Girl 00:00 Tools
Jane's Departure 00:00 Tools
Leland's Dismissal 00:00 Tools
Twisted Nerve(American Horror Story OST) 00:00 Tools
Stalking Vandamm's House 00:00 Tools
Susan's Room 00:00 Tools
Sunset Narration 00:00 Tools
The Skeleton 00:00 Tools
Hydra's Teeth / Skeletons / Attack 00:00 Tools
The Telescope 00:00 Tools
Frightened Sam 00:00 Tools
Drive 00:00 Tools
Kersek Killed 00:00 Tools
Good-Bye 00:00 Tools
The Nest 00:00 Tools
A Reluctant Hero 00:00 Tools
Rape And Hospital 00:00 Tools
Sam Hides 00:00 Tools
The Meadows (Western Suite) 00:00 Tools
Kane's Picnic 00:00 Tools
Opening Party 00:00 Tools
The Snows Of Kilimanjaro: Adagietto 00:00 Tools
3. Clair de lune 00:00 Tools
Marnie: Prelude 00:00 Tools
North By Northwest: Conversation Piece 00:00 Tools
The Visor 00:00 Tools
The Crossbow 00:00 Tools
The Sword 00:00 Tools
The Tomb 00:00 Tools
Memorial Park 00:00 Tools
The Home 00:00 Tools
The Request 00:00 Tools
Space Control 00:00 Tools
Salaambo's Aria 00:00 Tools
Alternate Theremin Mixes 00:00 Tools
Studio Rehearsals and Outtakes 00:00 Tools
The Fight With The Cyclops 00:00 Tools
Dragon And Cyclops 00:00 Tools
The Glade / The Golden Fleece 00:00 Tools
Cyclops' Death 00:00 Tools
Psycho: A Suite for strings: Prelude 00:00 Tools
Twisted Nerve (OST Kill Bill) 00:00 Tools
Scotty Tails Madeline 00:00 Tools
Prologue 00:00 Tools
"Cheers" 00:00 Tools
The End 00:00 Tools
The In-Laws 00:00 Tools
The Necklace and the Return and Finale 00:00 Tools
The Hill, The Bedroom, The Toys, The Cellar, Discovery, Finale 00:00 Tools
The Search, Pt. 1 00:00 Tools
The Genie's Home 00:00 Tools
Kill Bill Soundtrack - Whistle Song (Twisted Nerve) 01:27 Tools
Flowers of Fire 00:00 Tools
Abduction of George Kaplan 00:00 Tools
Getting Into Shape/Listen You Screwheads/Gun Play/Dear Father and Mother/The Card/Soap Opera 00:00 Tools
Psycho (Theme) 00:00 Tools
Tender is the Night: The Embrace 00:00 Tools
Kane Marries 00:00 Tools
Getty's Departure 00:00 Tools
Vertigo - Prelude (Main Title) 00:00 Tools
The Sorcerer's Apprentice 00:00 Tools
Jason and the Argonauts 00:00 Tools
The Passing Years 00:00 Tools
The Robot 00:00 Tools
Court's Confession 00:00 Tools
Murder At The United Nations 00:00 Tools
Breakout 00:00 Tools
The Flashlight 00:00 Tools
Xanadu 00:00 Tools
Cape Fear 00:00 Tools
The Study 00:00 Tools
London 00:00 Tools
Memorabilia 00:00 Tools
Bernard Herrmann - Twisted Nerve 00:00 Tools
taxi driver suite 00:00 Tools
Introduction 00:00 Tools
The Death Of The Dragon 00:00 Tools
The Fight With The Roc 00:00 Tools
The Ghost And Mrs. Muir: Andante Cantabile 00:00 Tools
The Magnetic Pull 00:00 Tools
Jigsaws 00:00 Tools
Where Is Everybody? 00:00 Tools
Susan Leaves 00:00 Tools
Walk Down Hallway 00:00 Tools
The Dressing Room 00:00 Tools
Second Xanadu 00:00 Tools
Pranks 00:00 Tools
The Door / Cheers 00:00 Tools
new dawn music 00:00 Tools
Torn Curtain: II. Gromek 00:00 Tools
Newsboy 00:00 Tools
Court Arrives At Wharf 00:00 Tools
Prelude & Death Of Kane 00:00 Tools
Bryn Mawr Walk 00:00 Tools
Fahrenheit 451: Captain's Death 00:00 Tools
Captive 00:00 Tools
After Dinner 00:00 Tools
5 Fingers: The Old Street 00:00 Tools
The Books 00:00 Tools
Assassination Attempt 00:00 Tools
New Orleans 00:00 Tools
Terror 00:00 Tools
Solar Diamonds (Not Used In Film) 00:00 Tools
Elegy 00:00 Tools
The Jeweler 00:00 Tools
The Glowing/Alone/Gort's Rage/Nikto/The Captive/Terror 00:00 Tools
The Ferry 00:00 Tools
The Trip 00:00 Tools
Gort's Rage 00:00 Tools
End Title 00:00 Tools
Nikto 00:00 Tools
Victory! (Western Saga) 00:00 Tools
I Still Can't Sleep/They Cannot Touch Her 00:00 Tools
The Elevator/magnetic Pull/the Study/the Conference/jewelry Store 00:00 Tools
The Station / The Phone Booth / Farewell 00:00 Tools
The Fire 00:00 Tools
A Reluctant Hero - Betsy - End Credits 00:00 Tools
The Reading - From "Fahrenheit 451" 00:00 Tools
The Conference 00:00 Tools
The Glowing 00:00 Tools
Converstion Piece 00:00 Tools
North By Northwest - Overture 00:00 Tools
The Plane 00:00 Tools
The $20 Bill 00:00 Tools
Debussy: Suite bergamasque - Clair de lune 00:00 Tools
Bad Man (Western Suite) 00:00 Tools
Mysterious Island - Prelude 01:26 Tools
The Snows Of Kilimanjaro: Barcarolle 00:00 Tools
The Return / Two Dollars 00:00 Tools
5 Fingers: The Safe 00:00 Tools
The Day The Earth Stood Still 1951 - Prelude / Outer Space / Radar 00:00 Tools
The Wrong Man Prelude 00:00 Tools
The Past - The Girl 00:00 Tools
Sondra Finds Briefcase 00:00 Tools
The Snows Of Kilimanjaro: Finale 00:00 Tools
The U.N. / Information Desk 00:00 Tools
The Ghost And Mrs. Muir 1947 - Prelude / Local Train / The Sea 00:00 Tools
The Night 00:00 Tools
5 Fingers: Romance 00:00 Tools
The 44 Magnum Is A Monster 00:00 Tools
Madeleine / Carlotta's Portrait - From "Vertigo" 00:00 Tools
Sunset Narrative 00:00 Tools
Walking Distance 00:00 Tools
The Snows Of Kilimanjaro: The Silence 00:00 Tools
Jane Alone 00:00 Tools
The Twilight Zone 00:00 Tools
Murder at the U.N. 00:00 Tools
Vertigo, Film Score 00:00 Tools
Reprise: Theme From Taxi Driver 00:00 Tools
Hideout 00:00 Tools
Romance 00:00 Tools
Detectives / Conversation Piece / Duo 00:00 Tools
Xanadu Music 00:00 Tools
The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit: Main Title 00:00 Tools
The Canyons (Western Saga) 00:00 Tools
Tranquil Landscape (Western Suite) 00:00 Tools
Fingerprints 00:00 Tools
Assassination Attempt - After the Carnage 00:00 Tools
Second Store 00:00 Tools
Sondra 00:00 Tools
The Discovery 00:00 Tools
Cape Fear (Title Theme) 00:00 Tools
hotel lobby (outtake) 00:00 Tools
The Glowing / Alone / Gort's Rage / Nikto / The Captive / Terror 00:00 Tools
Twisted Nerve (Kill Bill 1) 00:00 Tools
Prelude (Western Suite) 00:00 Tools
The Reunion / Goodbye / The Question 00:00 Tools
Taxi Driver Main Title 00:00 Tools
The Fall 00:00 Tools
Portrait of Elizabeth 00:00 Tools
Julie et l'echarpe 00:00 Tools
The Station (Film Version) 00:00 Tools
Cookie 00:00 Tools
The Elevator / Magnetic Pull / The Study / The Conference / The Jewelry Store 00:00 Tools
Phone Call/I Realise How Much She Is Like The Others/A Strange Customer/Watching Palantine On TV 00:00 Tools
Theme from "Psycho" (The City) 00:00 Tools
Kane And Susan 00:00 Tools
Abducting George Kaplan 00:00 Tools
The Safe 00:00 Tools
Main Title: First Season 00:00 Tools
The Finale 00:00 Tools
The Twisted Nerve/Jazz 00:00 Tools
Mother Memory 00:00 Tools
Psycho: A Suite for strings: The Water 00:00 Tools
Trip to the Court 00:00 Tools
Romance on the Train 00:00 Tools
Gunfight (Western Suite) 00:00 Tools
The Hallway 00:00 Tools
Kane and Susan, Up in Susan's Room 00:00 Tools
The Man Who Knew Too Much Cantata - The Storm Clouds 00:00 Tools
The Street 00:00 Tools
Love Music - From "Vertigo" 00:00 Tools
The Search I 00:00 Tools
News Reel of the Life of Charles Foster Kane 00:00 Tools
Obsession - Valse Lente 00:00 Tools
Court Signs Papers 00:00 Tools
The Wedding Part II 00:00 Tools
The Clean Up 00:00 Tools
The Killing 00:00 Tools
Manny and His Wife 00:00 Tools
Torn Curtain: Prelude 00:00 Tools
Phone Call/ I Realize How Much She Is Like the Others/A Strange ... 00:00 Tools
The Crash / Hotel Lobby 00:00 Tools
5 Fingers: The Charwoman 00:00 Tools
Manny Returns Home 00:00 Tools
Airport & Finale 00:00 Tools
Psycho: A Suite for strings: The City 00:00 Tools
Fauré: Pavane, Op.50 00:00 Tools
Anna and the King of Slam: Montage 00:00 Tools
The Ambush (Western Suite) 00:00 Tools
Mr. Mason 00:00 Tools
The Snows Of Kilimanjaro: Sorrow 00:00 Tools
5 Fingers: Alone 00:00 Tools
The Nightmare / Dawn 04:12 Tools
The Nightmare and the Dawn 03:33 Tools
Dark Valley (Western Suite) 00:00 Tools
Court Meets Sondra 00:00 Tools
Sondra Again 00:00 Tools
The 1st Floor 00:00 Tools
The Beach - From "Vertigo" 00:00 Tools
Court Finds Lasalle 00:00 Tools
The Hotel 00:00 Tools
Manny Picked Up By the Police 00:00 Tools
Main Theme From Taxi Driver 00:00 Tools
El Rancho 00:00 Tools
The Lonely 00:00 Tools
Walk Into the Grocery Store 00:00 Tools
Montag 00:00 Tools
Fanfare 00:00 Tools
Bernard Herrmann On Hitchcock 00:00 Tools
LaSalle & Sondra At Airport 00:00 Tools
The Naked And The Dead - Prelude 00:00 Tools
The Cafeteria / The Shooting 00:00 Tools
The Watching (Western Saga) 00:00 Tools
Psycho: A Suite for strings: The Rainstorm 00:00 Tools
Prelude - Outer Space 00:00 Tools
Cemetary 00:00 Tools
North by Northwest Overture (From "North by Northwest") 00:00 Tools
Rain Clouds (Western Suite) 00:00 Tools
Psycho: A Suite for strings: The Madhouse 00:00 Tools
Main Title First Season 00:00 Tools
Taxi Driver - Main Title 00:00 Tools
The Man Who Knew Too Much - Prelude 00:00 Tools
Airport (Alternate) 00:00 Tools
Vertigo: Suite: Prelude 00:00 Tools
The Search [B] 00:00 Tools
The House (Film Version) 00:00 Tools
5 Fingers: Escape 00:00 Tools
Vertigo: Suite: The Nightmare 00:00 Tools
Farewell / The Tower 00:00 Tools
5 Fingers: Finale 00:00 Tools
Fire Engine 00:00 Tools
Getting Into Shape/Listen You Screwheads/Gun Play/Dear Father & Mother 00:00 Tools
Fire Trucks (Prelude) 00:00 Tools
Psycho - A Suite for Strings: The City 00:00 Tools
Rochester 00:00 Tools
5 Fingers: Departure 00:00 Tools
Scène D'Amour 00:00 Tools
The Search II 00:00 Tools
Medley: 00:00 Tools
The Nightmare / Dawn - From "Vertigo" 00:00 Tools
Farewell / The Tower - From "Vertigo" 00:00 Tools
Open Spaces (Western Saga) 00:00 Tools
Fahrenheit 451 00:00 Tools
The Hitchhiker 00:00 Tools
The Giant Crab 00:00 Tools
Prelude / Outerspace / Radar 00:00 Tools
Prelude and Death of Kane 00:00 Tools
Journey to the Center of the Earth 00:00 Tools
Dreaming - Vanity 00:00 Tools
The Snows Of Kilimanjaro: Nocturne 00:00 Tools
The Snows Of Kilimanjaro: Interlude I 00:00 Tools
Romance/Love 00:00 Tools
Vertigo Main Title - The Rooftop 00:00 Tools
Vertigo Suite: II. The Nightmare 01:44 Tools
The Search B 00:00 Tools
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Bernard Herrmann (born Max Herman; June 29, 1911 – December 24, 1975) was an American composer best known for his work in composing for motion pictures. As a conductor, he championed the music of lesser-known composers. An Academy Award-winner (for The Devil and Daniel Webster, 1941; later renamed All That Money Can Buy), Herrmann is particularly known for his collaborations with director Alfred Hitchcock, most famously Psycho, North by Northwest, The Man Who Knew Too Much, and Vertigo. He also composed scores for many other movies, including Citizen Kane, The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Cape Fear, and Taxi Driver. He worked extensively in radio drama (composing for Orson Welles), composed the scores for several fantasy films by Ray Harryhausen, and many TV programs, including Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone and Have Gun–Will Travel. Herrmann, the son of a Jewish middle-class family of Russian origin, was born in New York City as Max Herman. His father, Abram Dardik, was from Ukraine and had changed the family name. Herrmann attended high school at DeWitt Clinton High School, an all-boys public school at that time on 10th Avenue and 59th Street in New York City. His father encouraged music activity, taking him to the opera, and encouraging him to learn the violin. After winning a composition prize at the age of thirteen, he decided to concentrate on music, and went to New York University where he studied with Percy Grainger and Philip James. He also studied at the Juilliard School and, at the age of twenty, formed his own orchestra, the New Chamber Orchestra of New York. In 1934, he joined the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) as a staff conductor. Within two years he was appointed music director of the Columbia Workshop, an experimental radio drama series for which Herrmann composed or arranged music (one notable program was The Fall of the City). Within nine years, he had become Chief Conductor to the CBS Symphony Orchestra. He was responsible for introducing more new works to US audience than any other conductor — he was a particular champion of Charles Ives' music, which was virtually unknown at that time. Herrmann's radio programs of concert music, which were broadcast under such titles as Invitation to Music and Exploring Music, were planned in an unconventional way and featured rarely heard music, old and new, which was not heard in public concert halls. Examples include broadcasts devoted to music of famous amateurs or of notable royal personages, such as the music of Frederick the Great of Prussia, Henry VIII, Charles I, Louis XIII and so on. Herrmann's many US broadcast premieres during the 1940s included Myaskovsky's 22nd Symphony, Gian Francesco Malipiero's 3rd Symphony, Richard Arnell's 1st Symphony, Edmund Rubbra's 3rd Symphony and Ives' 3rd Symphony. He performed the works of Hermann Goetz, Alexander Gretchaninov, Niels Gade and Franz Liszt, and received many outstanding American musical awards and grants for his unusual programming and championship of little-known composers. In Dictators of the Baton, David Ewen wrote that Herrmann was "one of the most invigorating influences in the radio music of the past decade". Also during the 1940s, Herrmann's own concert music was taken up and played by such celebrated maestri as Leopold Stokowski, Sir John Barbirolli, Sir Thomas Beecham and Eugene Ormandy. Between two movies made by Orson Welles (see below), he wrote the score for William Dieterle's The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941), for which he won his only Oscar. In 1947, Herrmann scored the atmospheric music for The Ghost and Mrs. Muir. In 1951 his score for The Day the Earth Stood Still featured the Theremin. In 1934, Herrmann met a young CBS secretary and aspiring writer, Lucille Fletcher. Fletcher was impressed with Herrmann's work, and the two began a five-year courtship. Marriage was delayed by the objections of Fletcher's parents, who disliked the fact that Herrmann was a Jew and were put off by what they viewed as his abrasive personality. The couple finally married on October 2, 1939. They had two daughters: Dorothy (b. 1941) and Wendy (b. 1945). Fletcher was to become a noted radio scriptwriter, and she and Herrmann collaborated on several projects throughout their career. He contributed the score to the famed 1941 radio presentation of Fletcher's original story, The Hitch-Hiker, on the Orson Welles Show; and Fletcher helped to write the libretto for his operatic adaptation of Wuthering Heights. The couple divorced in 1948. The next year he married Lucille's cousin, Lucy (Kathy Lucille) Anderson. That marriage lasted 16 years, until 1964. Herrmann's music is typified by frequent use of ostinati (short repeating patterns), novel orchestration and, in his film scores, an ability to portray character traits not altogether obvious from other elements of the film. Early in his life, Herrmann committed himself to a creed of personal integrity at the price of unpopularity: the quintessential artist. His philosophy is summarized by a favorite Tolstoy quote: ‘Eagles fly alone and sparrows fly in flocks.' Thus, Herrmann would only compose music for films when he was allowed the artistic liberty to compose what he wished without the director getting in the way: the cause of the split with Hitchcock after over a decade of composing scores for the director's films. His philosophy of orchestrating film was based on the assumption that the musicians were selected and hired for the recording session — that this music was not constrained to the musical forces of the concert hall. For example, his use of nine harps in Beneath the 12 Mile Reef created an extraordinary underwater-like sonic landscape; his use of four alto flutes in Citizen Kane contributed to the creepy opening, only matched by the use of 12 flutes in his unused Torn Curtain score; and his use of the serpent in White Witch Doctor is possibly the first use of that instrument in a film score. Herrmann said: "To orchestrate is like a thumbprint. I can't understand having someone else do it. It would be like someone putting color to your paintings." Herrmann subscribed to the belief that the best film music should be able to stand on its own legs when detached from the film for which it was originally written. To this end, he made several well-known recordings for Decca of arrangements of his own film music as well as music of other prominent composers. Herrmann is still a prominent figure in the world of film music today, despite his death in 1975. As such, his career has been studied extensively by biographers and documentarians. His string-only score for Psycho, for example, set the standard when it became a new way to write music for thrillers (rather than big fully orchestrated pieces). In 1992 a documentary, Music for the Movies: Bernard Herrmann, was made about him. Also in 1992 a 2½-hour-long National Public Radio documentary was produced on his life — Bernard Herrmann: a Celebration of his Life and Music (Bruce A. Crawford). In 1991, Steven C. Smith wrote a Herrmann biography titled A Heart at Fire's Center, a quotation from a favorite Stephen Spender poem of Herrmann's. His music continues to be used in films and recordings after his death. "Georgie's Theme" from Herrmann's score for the 1968 film Twisted Nerve is whistled by one-eyed nurse Elle Driver in the hospital corridor scene in Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003). The opening theme from Vertigo was used in the prologue to Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" video, and during a flashback sequence in the pilot episode of FX's American Horror Story, which also featured "Georgie's Theme" in later episodes as a recurring musical motif for the character of Tate. Vertigo's opening sequence was also copied for the opening sequence of the 1993 miniseries, "Tales Of The City", an adaptation of a series of books by Armistead Maupin. Fellow film composer Danny Elfman adapted Herrmann's music for Psycho for use in director Gus Van Sant's 1998 remake and borrowed from Herrmann's "Mountaintop/Sunrise" theme, from Journey to the Center of the Earth, for his main Batman theme. On its 1977 album Ra, American progressive rock group Utopia also adapted "Mountaintop/Sunrise," in a rock arrangement, as the introduction to the album's opening song, "Communion With The Sun." And most recently, Ludovic Bource used the love theme from Vertigo literally in the last reels of 2011's The Artist. Herrmann's film music is well represented on disc. His friend, John Steven Lasher, has produced several albums featuring Urtext recordings, including Battle of Neretva, Citizen Kane, The Kentuckian, The Magnificent Ambersons, The Night Digger and Sisters, under various labels owned by Fifth Continent Australia Pty Ltd. Herrmann was an early and enthusiastic proponent of the music of Charles Ives. He met Ives in the early 1930s, performed many of his works while conductor of the CBS Symphony Orchestra, and conducted Ives' Second Symphony with the London Symphony Orchestra on his first visit to London in 1956. Herrmann later made a recording of the work in 1972 and this reunion with the LSO, after more than a decade, was significant to him for several reasons - he had long hoped to record his own interpretation of the symphony, feeling that Leonard Bernstein's 1951 version was "overblown and inaccurate"; on a personal level, it also served to assuage Herrmann's long-held feeling that he had been snubbed by the orchestra after his first visit in 1956. The notoriously prickly composer had also been enraged by the recent appointment of the LSO's new chief conductor André Previn, who Herrmann detested, and deprecatingly referred to as "that jazz boy".[19] Herrmann was also an ardent champion of the romantic-era composer Joachim Raff, whose music had fallen into near-oblivion by the 1960s. During the 1940s, Herrmann had played Raff's 3rd and 5th Symphonies in his CBS radio broadcasts. In May 1970, Herrmann conducted the world premiere recording of Raff's Fifth Symphony Lenore for the Unicorn label, which he mainly financed himself.[20] The recording did not attract much notice in its time, despite receiving excellent reviews, but is now considered a major turning-point in the rehabilitation of Raff as a composer. In 1996, Sony Classical released a recording of Herrmann's music, The Film Scores, performed by the Los Angeles Philharmonic under the baton of Esa-Pekka Salonen. This disc received the 1998 Cannes Classical Music Award for "Best 20th-Century Orchestral Recording." It was also nominated for the 1998 Grammy Award for "Best Engineered Album, Classical." In 2004 Sony Classical re-released this superb recording at a budget price in its "Great Performances" series (SNYC 92767SK). Decca reissued on CD a series of Phase 4 Stereo recordings with Herrmann conducting the London Philharmonic Orchestra, mostly in excerpts from his various film scores, including one devoted to music from several of the Hitchcock films (including Psycho, Marnie and Vertigo). In the liner notes of the Hitchcock Phase 4 album, Herrmann said that the suite from The Trouble with Harry was a "portrait of Hitch". Another album was devoted to his fantasy film scores — a few of them being the films of the special effects animator Ray Harryhausen, including music from The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad and The Three Worlds of Gulliver. His other Phase 4 Stereo LPs of the 1970s included Music from the Great Film Classics (suites and excerpts from Jane Eyre, The Snows of Kilimanjaro, Citizen Kane and The Devil and Daniel Webster); and "The Fantasy World of Bernard Herrmann" (Journey to the Center of the Earth, The Day the Earth Stood Still, and Fahrenheit 451.) Fellow composers Richard Band, Graeme Revell, Christopher Young, Danny Elfman and Brian Tyler consider Herrmann to be a major inspiration. In 1985, Richard Band's opening theme to Re-Animator borrows heavily from Herrmann's opening score to Psycho. In 1990, Graeme Revell had adapted Herrmann's music from Psycho for its television sequel-prequel Psycho IV: The Beginning. Revell's early orchestral music during the early nineties, such as Child's Play 2 (which its music score being a reminiscent of Herrmann's scores to the 1973 film Sisters, due to the synthesizers incorporated in the chilling parts of the orchestral score) as well as the 1963 The Twilight Zone episode "Living Doll" (which inspired the Child's Play franchise), were very similar to Herrmann's work. Also, Revell's score for the video game Call of Duty 2 was very much a reminiscent of Herrmann's very rare WWII music scores such as The Naked and the Dead and Battle of Neretva. Young, who was a jazz drummer at first, listened to Herrmann's works which convinced him to be a film composer. Elfman has said he first became interested in film music upon seeing The Day the Earth Stood Still, and he paid homage to that score in his music for Mars Attacks! Tyler's score for Bill Paxton's film Frailty was greatly influenced by Herrmann's film music. Sir George Martin, best known for producing and often adding orchestration to The Beatles music, cites Herrmann as an influence in his own work, particularly in Martin's scoring of the Beatles' song "Eleanor Rigby". Martin later expanded on this as an extended suite for McCartney's 1984 film Give My Regards to Broad Street, which features a very recognizable hommage to Herrmann's score for Psycho. Avant-garde composer/saxophonist/producer John Zorn, in the biographical film A Bookshelf on Top of the Sky, cited Bernard Herrmann as one of his favorite composers and a major influence. Elmer Bernstein adapted and arranged Herrmann's original score from J. Lee Thompson's Cape Fear (1962), and used it for the 1991 Martin Scorsese remake. After Bernstein realized there was not enough music in the score from the original film, he added sections from Herrmann's unused score for Hitchcock's Torn Curtain, including the music composed for the murder of the character "Gromek". The score for Cape Fear evokes both the gathering clouds of the destructive hurricane and the murderous intent of killer Max Cady. Bernstein also recorded Herrmann's score for The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, which was released in 1975 on the Varese Sarabande label later reissued on CD in the 1990s. Charles Gerhardt conducted a 1974 RCA recording entitled "The Classic Film Scores of Bernard Herrmann" with the National Philharmonic Orchestra. It featured Suites from Citizen Kane (with Kiri Te Kanawa singing Salammbo's Aria) and White Witch Doctor, along with music from On Dangerous Ground, Beneath the 12-Mile Reef, and the Hangover Square Piano Concerto. During his last years in England, between 1966 and 1975, Herrmann made several LPs of other composers' music for assorted record labels. These included Phase 4 Stereo recordings of Gustav Holst's The Planets and Charles Ives's 2nd Symphony, as well as an album entitled "The Impressionists" (music by Satie, Debussy, Ravel, Fauré and Honegger) and another entitled "The Four Faces of Jazz" (works by Weill, Gershwin, Stravinsky and Milhaud). As well as recording his own film music in Phase 4 Stereo he made LPs of movie scores by others, such as "Great Shakespearean Films" (music by Shostakovich for Hamlet, Walton for Richard III and Rózsa for Julius Caesar), and "Great British Film Music" (movie scores by Lambert, Bax, Benjamin, Walton, Vaughan Williams, and Bliss). For Unicorn Records, he recorded several of his own concert-hall works, including the cantata Moby Dick, his opera Wuthering Heights, his Symphony, and the suites Welles Raises Kane and The Devil and Daniel Webster. Pristine Audio has released two CDs of Herrmann's radio broadcasts. One is devoted to a CBS programme from 1945 that features music by Handel, Vaughan Williams and Elgar; the other is devoted to works by Charles Ives, Robert Russell Bennett and Herrmann himself. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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