There was a Bernard Herrmann before Hitchcock.
There will be one later.
This is one of the rich lessons of the biography that composer Karol Beffa devotes to his illustrious elder 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, paints a portrait as high in color as its subject could be.
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 only to the field of cameras, but also irrigated American classical music.
From chamber music to orchestra and… opera!
Only one Oscar
Where we will learn that the father of one of the most terrifying music of the seventh art knew his
Traité d'instrumentation
by Berlioz like the back of his hand from the age of 10!
That he revered Charles Ives or Aaron just as much…
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