HerrmannFest 2011
Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of Bernard Herrmann (1911 – 1975)
Miklós Rózsa String Quartet No. 2 Op. 38 [13’]
Bernard Herrmann ‘Echoes’ for string quartet [20’]
Astor Piazzolla 'Four For Tango' [5’]
Erich Korngold String Quartet No. 3 Op. 34 [26’]
Bernard Herrmann Suite from ‘Psycho’ [7’]
Hungarian-born film composer Miklós Rózsa, like Herrmann, was closely associated with Alfred Hitchcock and MGM Studios and they became extremely close friends. Rózsa thought that Bernard Herrmann was the greatest American-born film composer. Herrmann and Hitchcock went on to become one of the defining filmmaker/composer partnerships in cinema. The Argentinean composer Astor Piazzolla was also a fan of Herrmann's music and pays homage to his music in Four For Tango by imitating the violin effects from Psycho’s famous shower scene. In 1930’s Hollywood, the Viennese post-romantic musical language became popular for film scores with Erich Wolfgang Korngold being a leading composer to contribute to this field. He was one of several Jewish Europeans to escape Hitler’s Europe, with Max Steiner (Casablanca), Franz Waxman (Rebecca) and Bernard Herrmann forming a quorum of unprecedented talent. Over the next fifty or so years, the Hollywood sound progressed almost unchanged, thanks to the heroic style of people such as John Williams (who had worked with Herrmann and Waxman) and most recently with Danny Elfman, who has expressed admiration for Korngold and Herrmann’s work.
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Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of Bernard Herrmann (1911 – 1975)
Miklós Rózsa String Quartet No. 2 Op. 38 [13’]
Bernard Herrmann ‘Echoes’ for string quartet [20’]
Astor Piazzolla 'Four For Tango' [5’]
Erich Korngold String Quartet No. 3 Op. 34 [26’]
Bernard Herrmann Suite from ‘Psycho’ [7’]
Hungarian-born film composer Miklós Rózsa, like Herrmann, was closely associated with Alfred Hitchcock and MGM Studios and they became extremely close friends. Rózsa thought that Bernard Herrmann was the greatest American-born film composer. Herrmann and Hitchcock went on to become one of the defining filmmaker/composer partnerships in cinema. The Argentinean composer Astor Piazzolla was also a fan of Herrmann's music and pays homage to his music in Four For Tango by imitating the violin effects from Psycho’s famous shower scene. In 1930’s Hollywood, the Viennese post-romantic musical language became popular for film scores with Erich Wolfgang Korngold being a leading composer to contribute to this field. He was one of several Jewish Europeans to escape Hitler’s Europe, with Max Steiner (Casablanca), Franz Waxman (Rebecca) and Bernard Herrmann forming a quorum of unprecedented talent. Over the next fifty or so years, the Hollywood sound progressed almost unchanged, thanks to the heroic style of people such as John Williams (who had worked with Herrmann and Waxman) and most recently with Danny Elfman, who has expressed admiration for Korngold and Herrmann’s work.
Please contact Costa at IKONArts for more details CONTACT