News & Updates — Bernard Herrmann

A very significant 20th-century composer, Bernard Herrmann is best known for his film scores, especially for Alfred Hitchcock. A Russian-American Jew, he grew up in NYC and found work as a composer and conductor in the world of classical music after his schooling at Julliard. During the Great Depression of the '30s he was able to put together his own orchestra of out-of-work musicians and played the music of underknown composers, including Charles Ives, whom Herrmann championed. He did a lot of work for Orson Welles, including scoring Welles' first film Citizen Kane, as well as several radio works such as...