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Originally written for the blog The Classic Film Scores of Bernard Herrmann, June 13 to 28,
The author is known on Talking Herrmann as "aka Roger Thornhill".
When Bernard Herrmann died in the early hours of Christmas Eve , he left behind a body of work that would go on to transcend the medium for which it was originally written.
Unusually for a film composer of his generation, almost all his scores are available on CD &#; many of them newly recorded &#; and a few have achieved the status of cultural icons.
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The saxophone theme from Taxi Driver has become musical shorthand for the American urban environment. The shrieking strings of Psycho have become a meme for both real and ironic terror. The whistling theme from Twisted Nerve is now a popular mobile ringtone.
The swirling madness of his Vertigo score provides Lady Gaga&#;s song Born This Way with an operatic sense of scale and a twisted romanticism.
This year marks the th anniversary of Herrmann&#;s birth (he was bo