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Monday, December 03, 2007

More Herrmann pictures
Category: Blogging

For your enjoyment, more Benny-related pictures have been posted up in the Photos section.

If anyone has more to add, please forward them and we'll put them up.

1:16 PM

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Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Spam comments. Would Benny approve?
Category: Blogging

Having just cleaned out over 15 spam messages, with just 1 genuine comment about Benny to post up, could people please be careful about their profiles being used by spammers?

Future spam messages will sadly have to result in friends being removed - it's a waste of time and highly frustrating to wade through to say the least. 1 person, whose profile looks fine, sent 3 spam messages with the same picture over 2 weeks. They are just, JUST, being allowed to stay with us.

Benny, no doubt, would have found this a most unrewarding experience...

11:22 PM

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Saturday, September 01, 2007

Herrmann’s popularity

On doing another web search, it's wonderful to find an increasing amount of media and texts about Benny. It seems people are really beginning to wake up to the importance of his work. A quick YouTube search resulted in discovering that many more Herrmann-related clips have been put up in recent months - wonderful!

11:46 PM

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Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Stromberg/MSO rehearsal footage
Category: Music

Here are some clips featuring the Stromberg/MSO rehearsing Bernard Herrmann's Mysterious Island in May 2007.

For forum postings and comments on the recording project, visit this link.

New recordings soon to be posted. As ever, welcome to all new friends.

11:19 PM

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Sunday, April 08, 2007

To all new friends - welcome

It's a joy to see so many people finding Benny on MySpace. My apologies if I can't respond to every message sent and touch base with every new friend, but it's a little too demanding to do so - although every message is very appreciated. This way, hopefully at least, I say hello to you, and if you ever have requests for music, let me know.

As ever, and on behalf of,

Bernard.

11:02 PM

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Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Share your observations
Category: Movies, TV, Celebrities

Having just seen on British TV a documentary about Conrad Black (will post the show if it goes online), which compared the magnate to Citizen Kane and used many excerpts from the Citizen Kane score, I felt compelled to ask you - all of you - to let us know anytime you hear Benny's work used. It could be in film, TV, commercials, theatre, the Internet, YouTube - you name it.

If you get the chance, please add to this blog your keen-eyed observations.

More material will be posted soon.

{On behalf of} Benny.

12:22 AM

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Monday, February 26, 2007

Documentary about Herrmann - online

Howard Goodall's "20th Century Greats" episode about Benny is now online. A sample clip has been posted on the main page, but for more visit YouTube and type in 'Bernard Herrmann' for the whole show.

8:19 AM

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Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Herrmann and Hitchcock - article and book
Category: Music

Here's a Guardian review of Jack Sullivan's book 'Hitchcock's Music', which covers a lot about Herrmann's relationship with Hitchcock. I love this comment: 'It is a lovely, humanising detail to learn that Herrmann dreamed of running an English pub, "until someone told him you actually had to open and close at certain hours"'.

To buy the book, 'Hitchcock's Music', click here.

To download a PDF scan of the article, click here.

4:26 PM

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Tuesday, November 28, 2006

The scoring of 'Psycho'
Category: Music

Here's an interesting little article on the scoring of 'Psycho'.

Herrmann caused a stir when he decided to score for the strings section only - which appears to have been key to the music's inventiveness.

It's interesting also how when people talk of the film, they often screech out the famous killing music sequence - could it be that Herrmann's work is now more recognisable than the film itself?

1:20 PM

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