The composer Karol Beffa offers his illustrious elder the first biography in French at Actes Sud. In some 200 pages with a style as sharp as Norman Bates' blade, this born improviser, who knew how to elevate one of his guilty pleasures (accompanying silent films) to the rank of true art.
Describing his journey and his legacy both as a film buff and a musicologist. Recalling, above all, that the scope of Bernard Hermann's music was not limited to the field of cameras, but also irrigated American classical music.