Beyond Psycho - The Musical Genius of Bernard Herrmann (Dvorak's Prophecy) (Film 5, 2021)
Composer: Herrmann, Bernard
Dvorak's Prophecy - A New Narrative for American Classical Music: Film 5: Beyond Psycho - The Musical Genius of Bernard Herrmann
Sharp, William
Conductor: Gil-Ordonez, Angel
Post-Classical Ensemble
Television Director: Horowitz, Joseph
Narrator:
Sharp, William
Year of Production: 2021
Playing Time: 01:08:53
Catalogue Number: 2.110702
UPC: 747313570256
Hollywood's supreme film composer was a casualty of the standard narrative - as he himself was bitterly aware. Not only were his movie scores high creative accomplishments; Bernard Herrmann was a formidabale - and formidably unfashionable - concert composer whose Clarinet Quintet may be the most beautiful chamber music by an American. His Psycho Narrative, which also sampled, surpasses the Psycho Suite normally heard.
He hones his gift for dramatizing the spoken word as the pre-eminent composer for a genre no longer remembered: the radio drama. Example, Whitman (1944) - a Norman Corwin radio play that deserves to live as a concert work. It also exemplifies how radio, an unprecedented mass medium, once consolidated the American experience, its biggest star being Franklin D. Roosevelt.
The participants include the Whitman scholar Karen Karbiener, the critic Alex Ross, Murray Horwitz on radio lore, and William Sharp on playing Walt Whitman to music by Bernard Herrmann.
