A heart at Fire's Center

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FILMS SCORED BY BERNARD HERRMANN
Vertigo The Man Who Knew Too Much
Psycho North by Northwest
Fahrenheit 451 The Birds
Citizen Kane The Snows of Kilimanjaro
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir Cape Fear
Taxi Driver Marnie The Magnificent Ambersons Torn Curtail
WINNER, DEEMS TAYLOR AWARD
"Bernard Herrmann was a master of psychology His incredibly innovative music 'inhabited' the film it was in, creating moods that stayed with the audience long after the film was over. Steven Smith captures the very heart of what Herrmann represented'] highly recommend this book to anyone who truly wants a glimpse into the world of this musical giant who changed the very nature of film composing." esa-pekka salonen, music director, Los Angeles Philharmonic
"Fascinating. The scholarship is impeccable, the judgments sound, and the whole thiiig as compulsively readable as eating popcorn." nicholas meyer, director and writer
"Smith's book is superb. Astonishingly well researched and annotated. Steven Smith... Tovább

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FILMS SCORED BY BERNARD HERRMANN
Vertigo The Man Who Knew Too Much
Psycho North by Northwest
Fahrenheit 451 The Birds
Citizen Kane The Snows of Kilimanjaro
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir Cape Fear
Taxi Driver Marnie The Magnificent Ambersons Torn Curtail
WINNER, DEEMS TAYLOR AWARD
"Bernard Herrmann was a master of psychology His incredibly innovative music 'inhabited' the film it was in, creating moods that stayed with the audience long after the film was over. Steven Smith captures the very heart of what Herrmann represented'] highly recommend this book to anyone who truly wants a glimpse into the world of this musical giant who changed the very nature of film composing." esa-pekka salonen, music director, Los Angeles Philharmonic
"Fascinating. The scholarship is impeccable, the judgments sound, and the whole thiiig as compulsively readable as eating popcorn." nicholas meyer, director and writer
"Smith's book is superb. Astonishingly well researched and annotated. Steven Smith has. written a colorful account of Herrmann's life and an eloquent assessment of his achievements." OPERA NEWS ^
"A disciplined and discerning biography . . . Herrmann's soaring flights of musical achievement [are] recounted at length and in heartrending detail." LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK REVIEW
"Smith catches what many of us felt in those days, that Welles and Herrmann and colleagues seemed en route to the moon, bright spirits of a worried yet fervid decade. Srpith then goes on to take us into every nook of Herrmann's career and many crannies of his private life." stanley kauffmann, The New Republic
steven c. smith has written about film, music, and television for the Los Angeles Times, Hollywood Reporter, Newsday, and USA Today. He has worked as a writer and producer for HBO, NBC, and A&E, and is supervising producer of the AMC series Backstory. He is the author of Film Composers (1991).
Cover design: Nola Burger. Front cover: Bernard Herrmann. Bernard Herrmann papers, Department of Special Coliecticns, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara. Front cover inset photos: © 2002 byllniversal Studios. Courtesy of Universal Studios Publishing Rights, a Division of Universal Studios Licensing, Inc. All rights reserved.
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