Who composed music for many Hitchcock films including Psycho, North by North and Vertigo?
"Hitchcock & Herrmann Hitchcock & Herrmann is a play written by David Knijnenburg which examines the relationship between film director Alfred Hitchcock and musical composer Bernard Herrmann. By combining a talent for self-promotion and producing films that were popular, Alfred Hitchcock became one of the greatest directors of motion pictures. No less of a talent in the world of musical composition, Bernard Herrmann was a child prodigy who had worked with Orson Welles before finding a collaboration with Hitchcock on ""The Trouble with Harry"", """"The Man Who Knew Too Much"""", ""The Wrong Man"", ""North by Northwest"", ""Vertigo"", """"Psycho"""", ""The Birds"""
"Vertigo (film score) The music score for Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 film ""Vertigo"" was composed by Bernard Herrmann between 3 January and 19 February 1958. The recordings were made in London and Vienna, with orchestra conducted by Muir Mathieson. A musicians' strike had prevented the score from being recorded in Los Angeles with Herrmann conducting. What follows is a list of the music cues that appear in the film and where (or if) they can be found on the various releases of the original soundtrack recordings and significant re-recordings of the score. Bernard Herrmann's score for ""Vertigo"" consists of 42 cues,"
"the host of the anthology television series ""Alfred Hitchcock Presents"" which he also produced. In 1958, Hitchcock directed the psychological thriller ""Vertigo"" starring Stewart and Kim Novak. The film topped the 2012 poll of the British film magazine ""Sight & Sound"" of the 50 Greatest Films of All Time and also topped the American Film Institute's Top Ten in the mystery genre. He followed this with the spy thriller ""North by Northwest"" (1959) which starred Grant and Eva Marie Saint. In 1960, he directed ""Psycho"", the biggest commercial success of his career and for which he received his fifth nomination"
"Hitchcock (film) Hitchcock is a 2012 American biographical drama film directed by Sacha Gervasi, based on Stephen Rebello's non-fiction book ""Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho"". The film was released in selected cities on November 23, 2012, with a worldwide release on December 14, 2012. ""Hitchcock"" centers on the relationship between film director Alfred Hitchcock (Anthony Hopkins) and his wife Alma Reville (Helen Mirren) during the making of ""Psycho"", a controversial horror film that became one of the most acclaimed and influential works in the filmmaker's career. In 1959, Alfred Hitchcock opens his latest film, ""North by Northwest"", to"
"at the time that ""Psycho"" heavily depended on the music for its tension and sense of pervading doom. His score for ""Vertigo"" (1958) is seen as just as masterful. In many of the key scenes Hitchcock let Herrmann's score take center stage, a score whose melodies, echoing the ""Liebestod"" from Richard Wagner's ""Tristan und Isolde"", dramatically convey the main character's obsessive love for the woman he tries to shape into a long-dead, past love. A notable feature of the ""Vertigo"" score is the ominous two-note falling motif that opens the suite — it is a direct musical imitation of the"
"films with scores composed by others, most notably on Alfred Hitchcock's ""Vertigo"" in 1958, where he conducted Bernard Herrmann's score, later releasing an album of the music with the Sinfonia of London. In the year of ""Vertigo"" alone he is credited with musical directorship of 28 films. Overall he is said to have conducted the music for over a thousand British films. Due to the requirements of what constituted a British film for the Eady Levy, Mathieson's name was credited alongside non-English composers. He married the ballet dancer Hermione Darnborough (1915–2010), whom he met in 1935 while conducting ""Hiawatha"" at"
"staccato stabs from the rest of the string section. The half-notes alternate between E and F 3 three times before going down to C. The Murder ""The Murder"" is a cinematic score written and composed by Bernard Herrmann for the horror-thriller film ""Psycho"" (1960) directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The score, its second movement in particular, is well recognized as arguably one of the most famous scores in film history. It scored for an original orchestra's string section. The score was composed for the famous ""shower scene"", the murder of Janet Leigh's character, Marion Crane. Hitchcock originally wanted the sequence (and"
"Psycho (1960 film) Psycho is a 1960 American psychological horror film directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock, and written by Joseph Stefano. It stars Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, John Gavin, Vera Miles, and Martin Balsam, and was based on the 1959 novel of the same name by Robert Bloch. The film centers on an encounter between a secretary, Marion Crane (Leigh), who ends up at a secluded motel after stealing money from her employer, and the motel's owner-manager, Norman Bates (Perkins), and its aftermath. ""Psycho"" was seen as a departure from Hitchcock's previous film ""North by Northwest"", having been filmed"
"The Murder ""The Murder"" is a cinematic score written and composed by Bernard Herrmann for the horror-thriller film ""Psycho"" (1960) directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The score, its second movement in particular, is well recognized as arguably one of the most famous scores in film history. It scored for an original orchestra's string section. The score was composed for the famous ""shower scene"", the murder of Janet Leigh's character, Marion Crane. Hitchcock originally wanted the sequence (and all motel scenes) to play without music, but Herrmann insisted he try it with the cue he had composed. Afterward, Hitchcock agreed that it"
"would invite him on to the production of a film and, depending on his decision about the length of the music, either expand or contract the scene. It was Hitchcock who asked Herrmann for the ""recognition scene"" near the end of ""Vertigo"" (the scene in which James Stewart's character suddenly realizes Kim Novak's identity) to be played with music. In 1963 Herrmann began writing original music for the CBS-TV anthology series, ""The Alfred Hitchcock Hour"", which was in its eighth season. Hitchcock himself served only as advisor on the show, which he hosted, but Herrmann was again working with former"
"by Australian-born composer Arthur Benjamin written for the earlier Hitchcock film of the same name). However, this film did give Herrmann the opportunity for an on-screen appearance: he is the conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra in the Albert Hall scene. Herrmann's most recognizable music is from another Hitchcock film, ""Psycho"". Unusual for a thriller at the time, the score uses only the string section of the orchestra. The screeching violin music heard during the famous shower scene (which Hitchcock originally suggested have no music at all) is one of the most famous moments in film score history. Hitchcock admitted"
"progression from shot to shot. A Hitchcock film is an organism, with the whole implied in every detail and every detail related to the whole."" By 1960 Hitchcock had directed four films often ranked among the greatest of all time: ""Rear Window"" (1954), ""Vertigo"" (1958), ""North by Northwest"" (1959), and ""Psycho"" (1960). In 2012 ""Vertigo"" replaced Orson Welles's ""Citizen Kane"" (1941) as the British Film Institute's greatest film ever made. By 2016 seven of his films had been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry, including his personal favourite, ""Shadow of a Doubt"" (1943). He received the"
"preservation by the United States National Film Registry: ""Shadow of a Doubt"" (1943), ""Notorious"" (1946), ""Rear Window"" (1954), ""Vertigo"" (1958), ""North by Northwest"" (1959), ""Psycho"" (1960), and ""The Birds"" (1963). In 2012 Hitchcock was selected by artist Sir Peter Blake, author of the Beatles' ""Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"" album cover, to appear in a new version of the cover, along with other British cultural figures, and he was featured that year in a BBC Radio 4 series, ""The New Elizabethans"", as someone ""whose actions during the reign of Elizabeth II have had a significant impact on lives in"
"song, ""Unchained Melody"". Nominated for fifteen Oscars but unsuccessful each time, North is one of only two film composers to receive the Lifetime Achievement Academy Award, the other being Ennio Morricone. North's frequent collaborator as orchestrator was the avant-garde composer Henry Brant. He won the 1968 Golden Globe award for his music to ""The Shoes of the Fisherman"" (1968). His best-known film scores include ""A Streetcar Named Desire"", ""Death of a Salesman"", ""Viva Zapata!"", ""The Rainmaker"", ""Spartacus"", ""The Misfits"", ""Cleopatra"", ""Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"", ""Dragonslayer"" and ""Under the Volcano"". His music for ""The Wonderful Country"" makes use of Mexican"
"Alfred Newman (composer) Alfred Newman (March 17, 1901 – February 17, 1970) was an American composer, arranger, and conductor of film music. From his start as a music prodigy, he came to be regarded as a respected figure in the history of film music. He won nine Academy Awards and was nominated forty-three times. In a career spanning more than four decades, Newman composed the scores for over 200 motion pictures. Some of his most famous scores include ""Wuthering Heights"", ""The Hunchback of Notre Dame"", ""The Mark of Zorro"", ""How Green Was My Valley"", ""The Song of Bernadette"", ""Captain from"
"Another of his songs was performed by Elisabeth Welch in 1937 (Red Hot Annabelle). Hitchcock remembered Spoliansky and hired him to write the song ""Love Is Lyrical (Whisper Sweet Little Nothing to Me)"", performed by Marlene Dietrich in Hitchcock's film ""Stage Fright"". In later years he composed scores for films such as ""Trouble in Store"" (1953), ""Saint Joan"" (1957), ""The Whole Truth"" (1958), ""North West Frontier"" (1959), ""The Battle of the Villa Fiorita"" (1965), ""The Best House in London"" (1969) and """" (1973), on which he clearly had a personal perspective. Ever since that time, works by Spoliansky have occasionally"
"Psycho (franchise) Psycho is an American horror franchise consisting of six films loosely based on the ""Psycho"" novels by Robert Bloch, namely ""Psycho"", ""Psycho II"", ""Psycho III"", ""Bates Motel"", """", the 1998 remake of the original film, and additional merchandise spanning various media. The first film, ""Psycho"", was directed by filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock. Subsequently, another film related to the series was made: an Alfred Hitchcock biopic. Also, an independent documentary called ""The Psycho Legacy"" was released on October 19, 2010. It mostly focused on ""Psycho II"", ""Psycho III"" and """", but did cover the impact and legacy of the original"
"Inrockuptibles"" published a special issue about ""Vertigo's"" locations in San Francisco, ""Dans le décor"", which lists and describes all actual locations. In October 1996, the restored print of ""Vertigo"" debuted at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco with a live on-stage introduction by Kim Novak, providing the city a chance to celebrate itself. Director Martin Scorsese has listed ""Vertigo"" as one of his favorite films of all time. Restoration Vertigo (film) Vertigo is a 1958 American film noir psychological thriller film directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock. The story was based on the 1954 novel ""D'entre les morts"" (""From Among"
"life and imagination, it's undeniably lively and provocative."" Hitchcock (film) Hitchcock is a 2012 American biographical drama film directed by Sacha Gervasi, based on Stephen Rebello's non-fiction book ""Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho"". The film was released in selected cities on November 23, 2012, with a worldwide release on December 14, 2012. ""Hitchcock"" centers on the relationship between film director Alfred Hitchcock (Anthony Hopkins) and his wife Alma Reville (Helen Mirren) during the making of ""Psycho"", a controversial horror film that became one of the most acclaimed and influential works in the filmmaker's career. In 1959, Alfred Hitchcock"
"Alex North Alex North (born Isadore Soifer, December 4, 1910 – September 8, 1991) was an American composer best known for his many film scores, including ""A Streetcar Named Desire"" (one of the first jazz-based film scores), ""Viva Zapata!"", ""Spartacus"", ""Cleopatra"", and ""Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"". He was the first composer to receive an Honorary Academy Award but never won a competitive Oscar despite fourteen nominations. North was born Isadore Soifer in Chester, Pennsylvania to Russian Jewish parents. North managed to integrate his modernism into typical film music leitmotif structure, rich with themes. One of these became the famous"
"Hitchcock originally hired playwright Maxwell Anderson to write a screenplay, but rejected his work, which was titled ""Darkling, I Listen,"" a quotation from Keats's ""Ode to a Nightingale."" According to Charles Barr in his monograph dedicated to ""Vertigo"", ""Anderson was the oldest (at 68) [of the 3 writers involved], the most celebrated for his stage work and the least committed to cinema, though he had a joint script credit for Hitchcock's preceding film ""The Wrong Man"". He worked on adapting the novel during Hitchcock's absence abroad, and submitted a treatment in September 1956."" A second version, written by Alec Coppel,"
"Hugo Montenegro Hugo Mario Montenegro (September 2, 1925 – February 6, 1981) was an American orchestra leader and composer of film soundtracks. His best known work is derived from interpretations of the music from Spaghetti Westerns, especially his cover version of Ennio Morricone's main theme from the 1966 film ""The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"". He composed the musical score for the 1969 Western ""Charro!"" which starred Elvis Presley. Montenegro was born in New York City in 1925. He served in the U.S. Navy for two years, mostly as an arranger for the Newport Naval Base band in Newport,"
"Vertigo (film) Vertigo is a 1958 American film noir psychological thriller film directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock. The story was based on the 1954 novel ""D'entre les morts"" (""From Among the Dead"") by Boileau-Narcejac. The screenplay was written by Alec Coppel and Samuel A. Taylor. The film stars James Stewart as former police detective John ""Scottie"" Ferguson. Scottie is forced into early retirement because an incident in the line of duty has caused him to develop acrophobia (an extreme fear of heights) and vertigo (a false sense of rotational movement). Scottie is hired by an acquaintance, Gavin Elster, as"
"the film's 50th anniversary, featuring yet another different cover. The film is also included on two different Alfred Hitchcock Blu-ray boxsets from Universal. The following publications are among those devoted to the production of ""Psycho"": Psycho (1960 film) Psycho is a 1960 American psychological horror film directed and produced by Alfred Hitchcock, and written by Joseph Stefano. It stars Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, John Gavin, Vera Miles, and Martin Balsam, and was based on the 1959 novel of the same name by Robert Bloch. The film centers on an encounter between a secretary, Marion Crane (Leigh), who ends up at"
"""perhaps Herrmann's most spectacular Hitchcock achievement."" Hitchcock was pleased with the tension and drama the score added to the film, later remarking ""33% of the effect of ""Psycho"" was due to the music."" and that “Psycho depended heavily on Herrmann’s music for its tension and sense of pervading doom.” The singular contribution of Herrmann's score may be inferred from the unusual penultimate placement of the composer's name in the film's opening credit sequence, as it is followed only by Hitchcock's directing credit. Herrmann used the lowered music budget to his advantage by writing for a string orchestra rather than a"
"- a digital media company, creating viral entertainment content and producing shows for TV / Digital and Commercials Hilton wrote the original scores for ""New Town Killers"" (2008, Independent), ""The Children"" (2008, Vertigo Films), ""Cherrybomb"" (2009, Universal), ""Salvage"" (2009, Hoax Films), ""Third Star"" (2010, Independent), ""Sword of Vengeance"" (2015, Vertigo Films) and ""Kill Command"" (2016, Vertigo Films) among others. He collaborated with composer David Holmes on ""Code 46"", ""Haywire"" and ""Hunger"", which received critical acclaim worldwide. Stephen produced acts such as Badly Drawn Boy, Miguel feat Wale – with Peter Asher, David Holmes and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, co-wrote"
"Hitchcock with the production of ""Under Capricorn"" (1949), on which she was credited for continuity (as Peggy Singer). She helped to resolve conflicts between Ingrid Bergman and the director. After commitments elsewhere, she became a permanent member of Hitchcock's production staff beginning with ""Vertigo"", and ""turned out to be a significant force"" behind the look and sound of later Hitchcock films. Robertson was Hitchcock's ""de facto"" associate producer, though she was never credited as such. Hitchcock relied on Robertson to sift through prospective material for films, and after reading Anthony Boucher's positive review of the novel ""Psycho"" in his ""Criminals"
"the title ""A Question of Loyalty"" in 1998. Hickey received a screen credit (""special thanks"") on the restored version of Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 ""Vertigo"" in recognition of his contribution to the 1998 restoration of the film performed by Robert Harris and James Katz for Universal Pictures. Hickey lives in Palm Springs, California. Michael Hickey Michael Hickey, originally of Manhasset, New York, is a screenwriter best known for the screenplay of the horror film ""Silent Night, Deadly Night"". Hickey's controversial screenplay focused on a serial killer who, disguised as Santa Claus, takes the lyric ""He knows if you've been bad or"
"Babenco, ""Badlands"" and ""Days of Heaven"" by Terrence Malick, ""Fat City"" by John Huston, ""Stroszek"" by Werner Herzog, ""The Killing of a Chinese Bookie"" and ""A Woman Under the Influence"" by John Cassavetes, ""McCabe and Mrs. Miller"" by Robert Altman, ""Out of the Blue"" by Dennis Hopper and ""Hail Mary"" by Jean-Luc Godard. The opening song on British Progressive rock musician Steven Wilson's solo debut album ""Insurgentes"" is called ""Harmony Korine"". Harmony Korine Harmony Korine (born January 4, 1973) is an American film director and screenwriter. He is best known for writing ""Kids"" and for writing and directing ""Spring Breakers"","
"One of his best-known art works is ""24 Hour Psycho"" (1993) which slows down Alfred Hitchcock's film ""Psycho"" so that it lasts twenty four hours. In ""Between Darkness and Light (After William Blake)"" (1997), William Friedkin's ""Exorcist"" (1973) and Henry King's ""The Song of Bernadette"" (1943) - two films about adolescent girls driven by external forces - are projected on either side of a single free-standing semi-transparent screen so they can be seen simultaneously. The video installation ""left is right and right is wrong and left is wrong and right is right"" (1999) presents two projections of Otto Preminger's ""Whirlpool"""
"a sister, Hazel Singer. Robertson was portrayed by actress Toni Collette in the 2012 biographical film ""Hitchcock"". Peggy Robertson Margaret ""Peggy"" Robertson (née Singer; 13 September 1916 6 February 1998) was a British-born script supervisor and personal assistant to Alfred Hitchcock from the 1940s through the 1970s during which time she worked on the films ""Under Capricorn"" (1948) and ""Stage Fright"" (1950), ""Vertigo"" (1958), ""Psycho"" (1960), ""The Birds"" (1963), and all of the director's remaining films. Margaret Singer (nicknamed ""Peggy"") was born in London, England, the daughter of Adolph Singer and the former Gladys Follick. Robertson first met Hitchcock in"
"blonde women include Tippi Hedren in ""The Birds"" and ""Marnie""; Dany Robin in ""Topaz""; Barbara Leigh-Hunt in ""Frenzy""; Janet Leigh in ""Psycho""; Grace Kelly in ""Rear Window"", ""To Catch a Thief"", and ""Dial M for Murder""; Eva Marie Saint in ""North by Northwest""; and Kim Novak in ""Vertigo"". As a former silent film director, Hitchcock strongly preferred to convey narrative with images rather than dialogue. Hitchcock viewed film as a primarily visual medium in which the director's assemblage of images must convey the narrative. Examples of imagery over dialogue are in the lengthy sequence in ""Vertigo"" in which Scottie silently"
"and '60s, including the 1958 soundtrack for the Alfred Hitchcock thriller ""Vertigo"" with Bernard Herrmann's score conducted by Muir Mathieson for Mercury Records and, in 1961, the soundtrack of the horror film ""Gorgo"". Among the original ensemble's most celebrated commercial classical recordings are the first recording made by Colin Davis, comprising Mozart's Symphonies 29 and 39 and issued by World Record Club (TZ 130) along with its 1963 recordings with Sir John Barbirolli conducting the ""Serenade for Strings"" of Edward Elgar and the ""Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis"" of Ralph Vaughan Williams for EMI Classics. Hans Swarowsky conducted"