Although Herrmann composed his last score, Taxi Driver, in 1975, the year he died, his music is far from forgotten today. Over the past few weeks, orchestras from southern Germany and the Canary ...

Herrmann composed some of the best-known film music ever written — especially the scores he wrote for Alfred Hitchcock. Now a new CD shows another side of Herrmann that's equally memorable. This is ...

In many ways, it’s remarkable that the composer Bernard Herrmann, who died at age 64 in 1975, is as well known as he is. His scores to Alfred Hitchcock’s “Vertigo” (1958) and “Psycho” (1960) remain ...

He had a grudge against the world and his place in it; his friend David Raksin called him “a virtuoso of unspecified anger.” His longest and strongest professional relationship, with Alfred Hitchcock, ...

Bernard Herrmann’s music for Alfred Hitchcock’s “Torn Curtain”—a harrowing and haunting score—sundered what many believe is the greatest director-composer collaboration in Hollywood history. Pressured ...

Bernard Herrmann, who gave “Citizen Kane” (1941) its eerie, jolly sonic admixture, “Psycho” (1960) its nervous system and “Taxi Driver” (1976) its lonely, perversely romantic noir ache, was born this ...

OK, film fans: What does Vertigo, Alfred Hitchcock’s hypnotic 1958 psychodrama and the current holder of the “Best Film Ever” title in the prestigious British Film Institute’s critics’ ranking, have ...

In 1966, film composer Bernard Herrmann, still smarting from the abrupt end to his creative partnership with Alfred Hitchcock, received a request from François Truffaut to write the music for his ...