Film composer, Bernard Herrmann will be forever associated with the films of Alfred Hitchcock - and with Pyscho 's infamous jarring strings in particula r. I'm going to be showcasing Herrmann's work 'little and often' on the CGAA Blog, so you can expect 'death-by-violin' to feature soon enough. I'm kicking things off with Herrmann's eerie and hugely influential score to Robert Wise's 1951 science-fiction classic The Day The Earth Stood Still . Herrmann utilised the theremin in his scoring for the film - an early electronic instrument now synonymous with 1950's science-fiction. It gives the composer's music a truly other-worldly sound. Just hearing this score makes me ache with nostalgia for a time when classic 1950's sci-fi would play on BBC 2 opposite the six o'clock news on BBC 1 - my first exposure as a child to flying saucers, robots - and the music of Bernard Herrmann. Prelude/Radar Gort/Visor/The Telescop e For more ...
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