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News | Concerts | Recordings | Video and DVD | Archive 22 March 2000 Morgan and Stromberg on Kilimanjaro Source: Music from the Movies; thanks to Matthew Gear Marco Polo Records and its regular orchestrator/conductor team John Morgan/William T Stromberg will be recording two classic 1952 Bernard Herrmann scores: the Gregory Peck adventure The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Joseph L Mankiewicz's spy thriller Five Fingers. This is the project Morgan/Stromberg originally wanted to do before The Egyptian but were stopped by Deutsche Grammophone. Release date probably 2001. . . . . . 22 March 2000 The Last of the Foxes Source: Rick Victor In an e-mail message announcing the release of Varese Sarabande's Anna and the King of Siam, co-producer Rick Victor writes: "This world premiere release is the third and concluding volume of the Bernard Herrmann at Fox series [...]". Varese have released a total of 5 (splendid) Herrmann/Fox CDs starting with Journey to the Center of the Earth and The Ghost and Mrs. Muir in 1997; but all things must come to an end, I guess. What will now happen to Beneath the 12-Mile Reef? While we're at it; Film Score Monthly has announced that they are working on CD/CDs of Herrmann's music. No info on exactly what. . . . . . 22 March 2000 Hitch on DVD Source: dvd.com Universal will be releasing two Hitchcock "Collector's Edition" DVDs this spring: The Birds (March 28) and Marnie (May 30). Both discs will be in letterbox (widescreen) format and willl include theatrical trailers and "making of" documentaries (but again, no separate music tracks). The discs are region 1 coded (USA). . . . . . 11 February 2000 Anna and Her Surprises Source: Rick Victor, Varese Sarabande's Fox team The original recording of Herrmann's Anna and the King of Siam (1946) will be released by Varese Sarabande on February 29, 2000. The CD which is part of Varese's 20th Century Fox series will be presented in stereo (1946!). And, in addition to 'Anna' the disc will also have a few surprises! There are no news of other upcoming Herrmann/Fox releases at this point. . . . . . 11 February 2000 Ninety Years and 281 on DVD The 1963 Twilight Zone episode Ninety Years Without Slumbering will be released on DVD (region 1, USA) on March 14. A month later, on April 25, the HBO movie RKO 281, about the making of Citizen Kane, will get the same treatment. In Europe (region 2) The 7th Voyage of Sinbad will be out on April 3, and Vertigo (incl. a 28-minute documentary) on April 24. There are also rumous about a DVD of Scorsese's remake of Cape Fear. . . . . . 11 February 2000 Diva Deborah American soprano Deborah Schmidt has showed her interest in Herrmann's opera Wuthering Heights. Hopefully she will do performances of one or more of its arias (no, we're not talking about the complete 3-hour thing). We'll keep you posted. . . . . . 20 January 2000 First Out 2000 Source: Varese Sarabande; thanks to Twi Herrmann's original 1946 recording of Anna and the King of Siam will be released by Varese Sarabande on February 29, 2000. . . . . . 5 November 1999 The Egyptian is Out Stromberg and Morgan's re-recording of Bernard Herrmann and Alfred Newman's The Egyptian is now available for order at Screen Archives. Most other shops still operates with the original release date of November 23rd. . . . . . 29 October 1999 The Return of McNeely Joel McNeely returns as conductor in Robert Townson's series of rerecordings for Varese Sarabande. The long awaited recording of Citizen Kane will finally be released on November 9. One week later, on November 16, they will release a complete rerecording of all of Herrmann's music for The Twilight Zone. And next year will see the release of Herrmann's score for Alfred Hitchcock's Marnie (1964). All conducted by Joel McNeely and produced by Robert Townson. Read more: Twilight Zone track listing w/comments . . . . . 29 October 1999 More from Fox In addition to the recently released Fox CDs, Bernard Herrmann at Fox, vol. 1 and 2, a third CD is being prepared. This will have music from Herrmann's Anna and the King of Siam (1946). Date of release is not set (should we guess on early 2000?). . . . . . 19 October 1999 The Original Twilight Zone Silva has released a 4 CD set of original tracks from the Twilight Zone TV series. Contains Herrmann's Where is Everybody?, Walking Distance, The Lonely, The Outer Space Suite (CBS stock music), The Hitchhiker, and 6 different Main and End Title themes. . . . . . 19 October 1999 Region 2 DVDs Source: Total DVD Herrmann films are also starting to appear on region 2 DVDs (Europe, PAL). Three discs have recently been released: Psycho (1960), Total DVD (UK magazine) gives this disc a rating of 8 out of 10; Psycho '98 gets a rating of 5 (technically a great disc but the film itself pulls the rating down); and Jason and the Argonauts gets 9 (all of these discs are also available in US region 1 versions). Another region 2 disc released in Japan (NTSC format) is Citizen Kane. This film is currently not available in other versions. . . . . . 30 September 1999 Neretva, Kentuckian and Night Digger on HDCD Fifth Continent Music Classics has announced the rerelease of classic analogue recordings from its master tape catalogue in HDCD. Included are Herrmann's Battle of Neretva (OST), The Kentuckian (cond. Steiner) and Night Digger (OST). The HDCD audio CD albums will be released in 2000. Additional information from kinorama@pnc.com.au. . . . . . 28 August 1999 Herrmann on New York Philharmonic CD Set Source: Bob Kosovsky "As it has done in the past two years, this year the New York Philharmonic will be issuing a deluxe 10-CD set of live concert material. Last year's theme was Mahler. This year's theme is American music. The set will be entitled An American Celebration. Among the items to be included are the 1949 NY Philharmonic performance of the suite from The Devil and Daniel Webster. Leopold Stokowski is the conductor. Each of the works included on the set had to be ok'ed by current music director Kurt Masur. I've heard that he was very intrigued and had positive comments about the Daniel Webster suite. The official release date of the 10-CD set is October 1. The price is set at US. (The CDs are not available individually.)" Go to New York Philharmonic. . . . . . 28 August 1999 Bernard Herrmann at Fox, Volume 1 Source: Carl Stewart/Talking Herrmann The first of the two upcoming Varese Sarabande/20th Century Fox CDs will be released on September 7. This will have original tracks from Tender is the Night, A Hatful of Rain, and The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit. The second disc will be released later this year; with Garden of Evil, Prince of Players and The King of the Khyber Rifles. . . . . . 28 August 1999 Preamble Reissues Source: John Steven Lasher/Fifth Continent Tony Bremner's recording of Citizen Kane (PRCD 1788) and the compilation CD The Inquirer (PRCD 1789) have been reissued. The latter includes music from Williamsburg, The Kentuckian, Night Digger, Battle of Neretva, The Magnificent Ambersons, and more. The CDs may be ordered from Hot Records; email: hotrecords@pavilion.co.uk. . . . . . 28 August 1999 More Hitchcock Source: Kai Penttilä, misc A total of four Herrmann/Hitchcock CDs has been released during the summer. Hitchcock Presents... Signatures in Suspense (Hip-O Records) Includes original tracks from Torn Curtain and Marnie (see June 29). Alfred Hitchcock: Music from His Films (MoMA) Released by The Museum of Modern Art, New York. People outside the US should get this from Footlight Records (www.footlight.com) as MoMA will charge very much for shipping! Hitchcock 100 Years (Milan) Excerpts from the 1992 recording conducted by Elmer Bernstein (Bernard Herrmann Film Scores). Try to get the original CD instead of this one. However, this CD has some additional Herrmann interview clips. Music from the Great Movie Thrillers (London/Decca) That's right. The 1969 recording conducted by Herrmann himself has been reissued, again (this time as DEM 436797). This might still be the best of the four discs, though. . . . . . 28 August 1999 Sinbad Lost at Sea Source: Gordon Thomas The DVD version of The 7th Voyage of Sinbad has been delayed. This was announced to be released on August 24 but is now scheduled for November. . . . . . 29 June 1999 Hitchcock Presents Torn Curtain on CD Source: Carl Steward, ICA Magazine and Ford A. Thaxton If you've been following this site's message board for the last week you will know this already: Hip-O Records, a division of MCA/Universal, will release the CD Alfred Hitchcock Presents... Signatures in Suspense in July this year. Among the 18 tracks, most of which have been released before, you will find, for the first time, excerpts from the original 1966 recordings of Herrmann's rejected score for Torn Curtain. From the 9 cues (and 17 takes) recorded before Hitchcock notoriously broke off the session Hip-O has selected 3 cues for the CD; Prelude/Torn Curtain, The Ship and Radiogram. Read more: Tracks . . . . . 29 June 1999 Argonauts cancels concert The July 22nd film music concert in LA organized by the Argonaut Foundation has been cancelled. The concert which was part of a Harryhausen tribute was to be conducted by William B. Stromberg. . . . . . 21 May 1999 2 times Fox Source: Film Score Monthly During the summer Varese Sarabande will release two new CDs of Herrmann's music for 20th Century/Fox films. One will feature Tender is the Night, The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit and A Hatful of Rain, the other one will be Garden of Evil, Prince of Players and King of the Khyber Rifles. This has earlier been reported as a double CD but will now be released as two individual CDs instead. I guess the fact that they left out Beneath the 12-Mile Reef is a good sign...? . . . . . 21 May 1999 Elfman/Bartek's Psycho Source: Virgin Records To be released on June 8 by Virgin Records is Danny Elfman and Steve Bartek's adaptation of Herrmann's music for Psycho from the 1998 remake. The CD will have the following cues: 1-Intro/Logos, 2-Prelude, 3-The City, 4-Marion And Sam, 5-Temptation, 6-The Rainstorm, 7-The Peephole, 8-The Murder, 9-The Clean Up, 10-The Car, 11-The Swamp, 12-The Curtain, 13-The Search, 14-The Stairs, 15-The Knife, 16-The 1st Floor, 17-The Search B., 18-The Hill, 19-The Bedroom, 20-The Cellar Pt. 1, 21-The Discovery, 22-The Finale. The video and DVD releases of the remake will also be out on June 8 (US/Canada). . . . . . 21 May 1999 RKO 281: The Making of Citizen Kane Currently in production is a film about the making of Citizen Kane (HBO/Scott Free Productions). The film which is produced by Ridley and Tony Scott will feature Liev Schreiber as Orson Welles and John Malkovich as Herman Mankiewicz. Bernard Herrmann will be "featured" in a small scene (what, small?!), and Herrmann's music will be used in the film's finale. . . . . . 21 May 1999 Citizen Kane CD Source: Kai Penttilä The complete 1991 recording of Citizen Kane (1941) conducted by Tony Bremner has been re-released by US budget label Laserlight (Laserlight 21 232). The liner notes reproduces Bremner's "Notes on the music" & "About this recording" by John Lasher from the original Preamble CD. One source for this CD is amazon.com (title=Score, Artist=Citizen Kane) but I'm sure you can also get it from www.screenarchives.com. . . . . . 21 May 1999 Herrmann at the Proms Source: Terry Hanstock This year's Promenade Concerts (Proms, London) are going to feature an evening of film music. Carl Davis will be conducting the BBC Concert Orchestra in a programme that will include Psycho and Vertigo. All of the Proms are broadcast on radio, usually on BBC Radio 3, and some are occasionally televised... The programme of the Proms will be available at www.bbc.co.uk/proms on June 11. . . . . . 21 May 1999 Concerts Source: Guy Sauve (Music Librarian, CBC) and www.nyfo.com The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation will broadcast a concert on June 19 from the Festival International du Domaine Forget featuring Herrmann's Souvenirs de Voyage (1967). On Wednesday October 13th, 1999, the New York FILMharmonic Orchestra (cond. John Mauceri) will present a concert at Carnegie Hall, featuring music by legendary composers Bernard Herrmann*, Franz Waxman, and Dimitri Tiomkin. The preliminary program features music from Vertigo*, Psycho*, North by Northwest*, Strangers on a Train, Dial M for Murder, Rear Window, Rebecca and Suspicion. See www.nyfo.com for details. . . . . . 21 May 1999 Installation art / Ballet on tour Source: Film Score Monthly Multi-media artist Douglas Gordon had a piece of installation art on exhibit in the Atlantis Gallery, London, in April. The piece features extreme close-ups (only) of conductor James Conlin conducting the Paris Opera House orchestra playing Herrmann's complete score to Vertigo. We'll try and let you know if this installation is set-up elsewhere in the future. A revised version of the ballet Macguffin or How Meanings Get Lost is currently touring the US for 21 performances. The ballet featuring Mikhail Baryshnikov has been adapted from Herrmann's score to Psycho (1960). . . . . . 28 April 1999 The Argonauts have arrived Source: Intrada; Brian Lee Corber Intrada released their new recording of Jason and the Argonauts yesterday. Intrada says: "The world premiere recording of Bernard Herrmann's fantasy score to the Ray Harryhausen classic, JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS is now available. Conducted by Bruce Broughton, this 60-minute CD is performed by the amazing Sinfonia of London, expanded to handle the enhanced brass, wind, and percussion sections demanded by Herrmann's orchestration." A press release has been posted to talking-main-001 <--ILLEGAL LINK-->. Until May 9 the CD is exclusively available through www.intrada.com. . . . . . 21 April 1999 The Argonauts are coming Source: Douglas Fake, Intrada Intrada's new recording of Jason and the Argonauts (1963) is currently being manufactured and Intrada is expecting copies by the last week of April. This would give a release date around May 11. . . . . . 21 April 1999 Harryhausen tribute Source: Arnold Kunert, The Argonaut Foundation The non-profit organization, The Argonaut Foundation, is planning a three-day tribute to Ray Harryhausen, who will be in attendance. A highlight of the tribute will be a concert at UCLA's Royce Hall featuring classic film music from Steiner, Korngold, Waxman, and others. Of course, no film music concert would be complete without the works of Bernard Herrmann, particularly since he scored four of Harryhausen's best films. The event will take place on July 22nd at 8pm; ticket prices are , and . Contact the Argonaut Foundation on 818-890-4492 (fax: 818-896-6613). A link to the foundation's upcoming web site will appear here shortly. . . . . . 21 April 1999 The Lion's Roar Source: FilmScoreMonthly.com The 2-disc MGM compilation including a suite from Herrmann's 1965 score Joy in the Morning will be released on May 4. The premiere release of music from this film will contain the cues: The Hallway/The Staircase/(Despair/Reunion/Delivery). The complete track list is available on filmscoremonthly.com (4/16/99). . . . . . 21 April 1999 Bootleg Obsession The new "label" Reference has recently released a bootleg CD of Bernard Herrmann's 1975 score to Brian De Palma's Obsession (RO-0001, stereo, 73 minutes). The CD claims to contain the complete score and doubles the length of the original Decca LP. With "The Herrmann Chronicles" printed on the back this gives the impression of being the first in a series of bootlegs. Also includes cues not used in the film. . . . . . 4 March 1999 The Naked and the Dead from Silva Source: Regis Nowicki/Martin Dawber Silva has recently released a double CD containing every Herrmann-recording from their catalog. In addition, they have included a new recording of a suite from The Naked and the Dead. The CD is currently only available in the UK but will be released in the US by the end of March. See also www.silvascreen.co.uk/wnss1.htm. . . . . . 4 March 1999 Joy in the Morning Source: Koegebehn Rhino will be releasing a new 2CD set of main titles. Included will be the first ever release of Herrmann's Joy in the Morning. Expected late spring. . . . . . 4 March 1999 Psycho Ballet Source: Film Score Monthly "MACGUFFIN OR HOW MEANINGS GET LOST is a new ballet choreographed by Neal Greenberg apapted from Bernard Herrmann's score to Psycho. The work was premiered at "An Evening of Music and Dance with Mikhail Baryshnikov" on Jan. 12 in New York City, a benefit for dancers responding to AIDS. Jonathan Sheffer conducted the Eos Orchestra. The ballet is approx. 20 minutes long, and will have a US tour with Baryshnikov to some 15 cities in May and June." . . . . . 4 March 1999 Compilations from Sony and Sonic Sony/NPR have released a compilation CD entitled Milestones of the Millennium: Music in Film. Among all the film music from this millennium they have managed to squeeze in Herrmann's Prelude from Vertigo (3 min) and "The Murder" from Psycho (1 min). Both previously released, conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen. :: Another compilation out now is Sonic Images' Watch the Skies. This sci-fi CD opens with Erich Kunzel's 1990 rendition of the prelude from The Day the Earth Stood Still (2 min). . . . . . 4 March 1999 What's up for 1999 Source: Douglas Fake/Robert Townson/John Morgan/John Steven Lasher Probably the next disc out will be Intrada's new complete recording on Jason and the Argonauts (1963). This one is conducted by Bruce Broughton and is expected in May. :: Other big events include Varese Sarabande's complete recording of Citizen Kane (1941) conducted by Joel McNeely (most likely the last of the Varese/McNeely co-projects), and Marco Polo's release of Herrmann and Alfred Newman's The Egyptian (1954). The latter by the Morgan/Stromberg team. :: Another item from Varese Sarabande will be a double CD of unreleased original tracks from Herrmann's years at 20th Century Fox. Hopefully containing as much as possible from Beneath the 12-Mile Reef ? :: An odd one is the rather conservative Deutsche Grammophone doing Five Fingers/The Snows of Kilimanjaro. Don't know much about this project. :: Also, Fifth Continent is presently negotiating with DTS and Image Entertainment with the respect to the production and distribution of their planned DTS 5.1 CDs. Included here is the original tracks of Night Digger. This might be a good year too... . . . . . 23 February 1999 Charles Gerhardt Source: John Morgan CHARLES GERHARDT, 71 died quietly in his sleep yesterday after a short illness. Conductor Charles Gerhardt is best known for his Classic Film Scores recordings for RCA in the 1970's. The album "Citizen Kane: The Classic Film Scores of Bernard Herrmann" recorded in 1974, is still regarded as one of the best recordings of Herrmann's music. . . . . . 21 December 1998 Jason Audio Clips Intrada's new recording of Jason and the Argonauts (1963) is now set for release in March 1999. While we're waiting, Intrada has made four audio clips available on their web site - . The clips will be alternating, one by one, on a weekly basis until the release. . . . . . 21 December 1998 New Bootlegs Source: Guenther Koegebehn Two new bootleg CDs has been released on a new 'label': Anna and the King of Siam (58 minutes, mono/stereo, complete) and Jane Eyre (60 minutes, complete). . . . . . 21 December 1998 John Addison (1920-1998) Composer John Addison has passed away. To Herrmann "fans" he is probably known for his score to Hitchcock's Torn Curtain (for which Herrmann's score was rejected). He also composed music for Tom Jones (Academy Award winner), A Bridge Too Far, Sleuth and Murder She Wrote. Our condolences to his family and friends. . . . . . 23 November 1998 Hollywood Composer Stamps Source: Film Score Monthly Bernard Herrmann along with Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Max Steiner, Franz Waxman, Alfred Newman and Dimitri Tiomkin will appear on a new set of US first-class (33 cents) postage stamps of Hollywood Composers in September 1999. An amazing recognition of film music and of these legendary composers. . . . . . 23 November 1998 The New Sisters Source: Bill Fentum The new re-issue of De Palma's 1972 film Sisters will hopefully be out in cinemas during the first quarter of 1999. Unfortunately, due to lack of footage, there will not be a "Director's Cut". But, the new print will have a stereo soundtrack of Herrmann's music. The film is distributed by Kit Parker Films. . . . . . 23 November 1998 Psycho: The Remake Source: Roel Siebrand (reluctantly) As reported earlier, Universal Pictures and director Gus Van Sant is remaking Hitchcock's Psycho (1960). Bernard Herrmann's original music will be used in the film, produced and adapted by composer Danny Elfman. Three cues from the new (October) recording--Prelude, The Murder, and Finale-- will appear on a "soundtrack" CD on December 1st. The rest of the CD will be songs unrelated to the film (sigh). More info is available at www.universalpictures.com/psycho. A trailer is also available but I would recommend spending the download time on the new Star Wars trailer instead (www.starwars.com, completely unrelated to Herrmann, though). The new Psycho will open in US cinemas on December 4th. Wonder if they'll let you see the ending first... . . . . . 6 November 1998 No trouble with Harry Source: Robert Townson, Varese Sarabande As reported earlier, the first pressing of Varese's new recording of Herrmann's The Trouble with Harry had a minor defect at the end of track 3. The CD has now been repressed and fully functional copies have shipped to stores. While this does not insure against the fact that a given store could have an "old" version still laying in wait, all new shipments are trouble-free. Now there's no reason for not buying it. . . . . . 6 November 1998 Recording of the Month Source: Martin Dawber The new recording by Renee Fleming, I Want Magic, have been selected 'Recording of the Month' in the November issue of Gramophone Magazine. Track one on the CD is Herrmann's aria "I Have Dreamt" from WUTHERING HEIGHTS, and this is also track one on the supplement CD which accompanies the magazine. . . . . . 6 November 1998 Family Memoirs Source: Art Haupt Herrmann's elder daughter Dorothy Herrmann appeared on C-Span (US TV) on October 24 in an interview about her new biography--"Helen Keller: A Life". The book has been widely reviewed and quite well received. When asked what her next book would be, her reply was that it might be a memoir about her family. Yes, please. . . . . . 16 October 1998 Problems with Harry Source: Robert Townson at Varese Sarabande The first batch of the new CD of THE TROUBLE WITH HARRY (Varese Sarabande, cond. McNeely) released on October 6th, has a pressing error; a pop at the end of track 3. People having bought this CD will be able to return it for a flawless copy which will be available in about two weeks. Here's what Robert Townson, the producer, says about it: "The master I delivered to [JVC] was error free. All CDs manufactured in Europe, Japan etc. will be fine. In America we are having this corrected now. The very day I received my discs and discoved the problem I stopped all shippments and had our distributor (MCA) return every disc they had to JVC. By this time, however, most CDs had already shipped to stores. I would expect that the new copies should start hitting stores in about two weeks. People should maybe notify the store where they bought it that they will be coming back but wait just a little while before exchanging them since, at the moment, there are simply no defect-free copies to be had. Very disappointing and such a shame." . . . . . 16 October 1998 Antz by Northwest Source: Bill Fentum One of the trailers for the DreamWorks/PDI computer-animated film, Antz, features the overture from Herrmann's NORTH BY NORTHWEST (Hitchcock, 1959). It plays over the closing seconds and credits on the trailer. The film premiered on October 2nd (USA). The trailer is available for download at www.pepsi.com/sept/movies/feature/main (needs the Flash plug-in; select "Video", then "Trailer II"), or directly: 4mb version | 9mb version . . . . . 10 October 1998 Goldsmith conducts Herrmann Source: Guillermo Puente Jerry Goldsmith will conduct the Real Orquesta Sinfonica de Sevilla (Spain) on November 4th in a concert tributing Bernard Herrmann. The concert is part of the "Encuentros internacionales de musica de cine" festival and the recently altered program includes music from The Man Who Knew Too Much, Jane Eyre, Mysterious Island, Citizen Kane, The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad, The Trouble with Harry, Vertigo, North by Northwest, Marnie and Torn Curtain. On the 7th, Goldsmith will conduct the same orchestra in a concert of his own music. On November 9th-11th the concerts will be followed by a seminar on Herrmann, focusing on his music for Welles and Hitchcock films. Among those attending will be Royal S. Brown. For more information (in Spanish) see Teatro de la Maestranze: Conciertos, Teatro de la Maestranze: Seminarios, Real Orquesta Sinfonica de Sevilla. Also, there are plans for staging Herrmann's opera, Wuthering Heights, in Sevilla in the year 2000. We will get back to this at a later date. . . . . . 10 October 1998 Jason and Intrada Source: Douglass Fake at Intrada Intrada's recording of Herrmann's Jason and the Argonauts with Bruce Broughton conducting the Sinfonia of London will be released in February 1999. The score has been assembled from Herrmann's original manuscript by Christopher Husted at the Bernard Herrmann Archives, UCSB, and will feature about an hour's worth of music. . . . . . 10 October 1998 The Egyptian, ok. Five Fingers/Kilimanjaro, well... Source: John Morgan, producer Marco Polo's recording of Bernard Herrmann and Alfred Newman's score for The Egyptian, with William Stromberg conducting the Moscow Symphony Orchestra, will be released in winter or early spring 1999. Stromberg and Morgan originally wanted to do the complete music of Five Fingers and about 35 minutes of The Snows of Kilimanjaro. This was stopped by Deutsche Grammophon who also wanted to do these titles. But nothing has been done yet. . . . . . 10 October 1998 Night Digger and Sisters Source: John Steven Lasher, Fifth Continent Movie Classics The production of the DTS 5.1 Digital Surround CD of Night Digger (OST, 1971) is expected to begin in March, 1999. DTS CDs are not playable on regular CD players without a DTS decoder. Fifth Continent is also considering giving the same treatment to Sisters (OST, 1972). Speaking of which... . . . . . 10 October 1998 Sisters: The Director's Cut Source: Bill Fentum The October 9th issue of Entertainment Weekly reports that, as a part of the continuing trend of reissuing vintage films to theaters, an expanded "director's cut" of Sisters (Brian De Palma, 1972) is slated for release in early 1999. No information was given on who will distribute this film. . . . . . 10 October 1998 CNR deletions Source: David Wishart, Cloud Nine Records The original soundtrack recordings of Mysterious Island and The Three Worlds of Gulliver, and the soundtrack compilation Classic Fantasy Film Scores (Herrmann's Harryhausen scores), all released by Cloud Nine Records, have now been deleted. There are still copies in stores so if you want these, get them now. . . . . . 4 September 1998 Aria from Wuthering Heights Source: Bob Kosovsky Opera singer Renee Fleming's new CD, I want magic, is a collection of arias from operas by American composers. One of the selections is I Have Dreamt from Bernard Herrmann's opera WUTHERING HEIGHTS. The title of this CD is based on an aria from the upcoming opera A Streetcar Named Desire by film composer/arranger Andre Previn, in which Fleming will create the role of Blanche. The CD will be released on September 15, on London (Decca) 289 460 567-2. . . . . . 31 August 1998 Varese/McNeely and the Trouble with Harry Source: Varese Sarabande A new recording of Bernard Herrmann's first collaboration with Alfred Hitchcock -- The Trouble with Harry -- conducted by Joel McNeely, is set for release by Varese Sarabande on October 6. This will be the first time this score is available in more than suite form. On September 8, Varese is releasing the 7th Voyage of Sinbad in a new recording by John Debney. Their Citizen Kane disc (Joel McNeely) has been postponed till 1999. . . . . . 31 August 1998 Twilight Zone on DVD Panasonic has announced the release of 7 Twilight Zone DVDs. Inicluded is Herrmann's Where is Everybody?, Walking Distance, The Lonely and Eye of the Beholder. No, the DVDs does not have separate music tracks. . . . . . 31 August 1998 Bernard Herrmann Music Source: Christopher Husted The four published Bernard Herrmann scores earlier distributed by MMB Music, Nocturne and Scherzo, Silent Noon, Sinfonietta and Souvenirs de Voyage, will soon be available again, now from Bernard Herrmann Music directly. The first score, Souvenirs, will be available later this year. [Also a lot of other scores from Herrmann's radio and concert music will be handled by BHM]. . . . . . 4 August 1998 Souvenirs de Voyage & Echoes Varese Sarabande has reissued the 1990 and 1991 recordings of Herrmann's clarinet quintet (1967) and string quartet (1965). The music performed by the Lyric Art Quartet, Houston, and the Texas Festival Quartet was originally released on Bay Cities (and Milan) CDs. [Varese Sarabande VSD-5559] . . . . . 4 August 1998 The Day the Earth Stood Still Source: Silva Screen Records, David Wishart Silva recorded the Main Title and Radar Cues from The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) for the double CD Alien Invasion released earlier this year. [Silva FILMXCD 190] . . . . . 4 August 1998 Herrmann among film's top 100 Source: The Film 100, Scott Smith The web site Film 100 (www.film100.com) ranking the 100 most influential people in the history of cinema is now available in a book version featuring a lengthier biography and an extensive justification for Herrmann's ranking. The book now available in major book stores and online sellers (like amazon.com) includes a foreword by director Robert Wise (The Day the Earth Stood Still). . . . . . 4 August 1998 New site Yet another Herrmann site is now up-and-running at www.geocities.com/Athens/Agora/1985/bern2.html. The site mostly contain RealAudio clips from Herrmann's film music. . . . . . 16 June 1998 Released: Garden of Evil Marco Polo has just released the long-awaited new recording of Garden of Evil and a suite from Prince of Players. Bill Stromberg conducts the Moscow Symphony Orchestra in Bernard Herrmann's only Western film score. Liner notes by Steven C. Smith. See Garden of Evil: An Interview with John Morgan. . . . . . 16 June 1998 The Golden Age of 20th Century Fox Source: Varese Sarabande, Robert Townson Also released today was a sampler of music from the 20th Century Fox archives called Music from the Golden Age of 20th Century Fox. In addition to cues from The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (Andante Cantabile) and Journey to the Center of the Earth (Sunrise), the CD includes the following Herrmann tracks: Beneath the 12-Mile Reef (To Sea, 1:04), Anna and the King of Siam (2:03), Prince of Players (2:19), Garden of Evil (2:38), and The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit (1:55). Hopefully a taste of what's to come... . . . . . 9 June 1998 New Seventh Voyage of Sinbad Source: Varese Sarabande Varese Sarabande is releasing a brand new complete recording of Herrmann's 1958 score of The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad. Joel McNeely has conducted 5 recordings of Herrmann's music for Varese in recent years, Fahrenheit 451, Vertigo, Psycho, Torn Curtain and the upcoming Citizen Kane (coming October 20, 1998). Now, the series is taken over by John Debney. Varese Sarabande: "Truly one of the all time classic film scores, Bernard Herrmann's The 7th Voyage of Sinbad has never sounded better or been more complete. Wildly exotic, lushly romantic, bombastic, violent, magical, epic... this score has everything! Conductor John Debney, perhaps most famous for his own score for Cutthroat Island, here takes over Joel McNeely's series of Bernard Herrmann recordings and does so in the grandest manner. This first CD of four recordings of Herrmann's work for Ray Harryhausen is destined to become one of the staple recordings necessary in every film music collection. A film music masterpiece!" As Bruce Broughton is doing a recording of Jason and the Argonauts for Intrada, does this mean there'll be two releases of this score? The Royal Scottish National Orchestra, conducted by John Debney, on Varese Sarabande VSD-5961 will be released on September 8, 1998. . . . . . 5 June 1998 Torn Curtain released Joel McNeely's recording of Herrmann's rejected score for Torn Curtain (Alfred Hitchcock, 1966) was released by Varese Sarabande on June 2nd. . . . . . 5 June 1998 Welles' Macbeth on CD Source: Paul Wilson Pearl Records (England) have released Orson Welles' Macbeth (1940) with Herrmann's incidental music on CD. This was the first ever full-length recording of Shakespeare's play and was the last of the Mercury Text Records, released on 78 rpm by Columbia. Pearl catalogue number: GEMMCD0011. . . . . . 5 June 1998 More Fox Classics Source: Film Score Monthly Varese Sarabande will release two compilation albums featuring Herrmann's music from the 20th Century Fox archives. First out is Best of 20th Century Fox (sampler, with cues from Garden of Evil, Prince of Players and Beneath the 12-Mile Reef, plus All About Eve, The Stripper, Love is a Many Splendored Thing, Leave Her to Heaven and more). This will be out any day now. The second CD is a Herrmann-only compilation called Bernard Herrmann at 20th Century Fox. . . . . . 5 June 1998 The Day the Earth Stood Still: correction Source: John Steven Lasher Two cues from The Day the Earth Stood Still were included on the Preamble CDs The Inquirer and The Kentuckian. In the recordings database of this site these are listed as being the same recording conducted by Tony Bremner. This is not the case. Here's a part of a letter from producer John Steven Lasher: "Just a minor revision with respect to the PRCD 1777 CD of 'The Kentuckian' is in order: the 2 cues from 'Day the Earth Stood Still' were conducted by Fred Steiner on this CD. Actually, these 2 cues were recorded during a break between sessions of KING KONG in October, 1996, at the Church of All Saints, Barbican, London. I remember the players complaining about having to do this on such short notice -- they were quite exhausted after 'huffing-and-puffing' through Max Steiner's KONG. The 2 cues of 'Day the Earth Stood Still' conducted by Tony Bremner were recorded at Olympic Studios, Barnes, London in October 1987 during a break between sessions of the 2 volume set of STAR TREK compilations. Funny, this, as the 'Day' cues were always an 'afterthought' on my part. Wonderful music, this, particularly 'Benny's' use of the C trumpet." . . . . . 5 June 1998 Vertigo concert in London Source: Ben Foster On July 7th, at 7:00pm The Enigma Ensemble conducted by Ben Foster will be performing the suite from VERTIGO in a concert of contemporary music at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London, EC2Y, UK. . . . . . 5 June 1998 New Herrmann web site A new Herrmann web site called The Twelve Mile Reef is up and running at www.geocities.com/Vienna/8407. Check it out. [The new web site is not associated with The Bernard Herrmann Web Pages] . . . . . 5 June 1998 Guestbook revived The web site's guestbook is now back online after being unavailable for quite some time. . . . . . 26 May 1998 Psycho LaserDisc and DVD released Source: Ken Cranes The special collector's edition of Psycho on LaserDisc and DVD (letterbox, with documentary) was released today. The LaserDisc also features the music on isolated tracks. . . . . . 26 May 1998 New York exhibit extended Source: Bob Kosovsky The exhibit Encore: More Music for the Cinema has been extended until June 30. . . . . . 26 May 1998 Vertigo book Source: Dan Auiler Dan Auiler's book Vertigo: The Making of a Hitchcock Classic is now available at most US bookstores and through amazon.com. The book includes "an ample section" on Hitchcock and Herrmann. . . . . . 26 May 1998 Camera Three on video Source: Alan Andres The 1976 CBS Camera Three documentary on Herrmann is available on VHS from Creative Arts Television (price .95 + shipping). See article-andres-camera3-001. . . . . . 26 May 1998 DVD Source: Ken Cranes Here are some reasons to consider DVD. The following films are available: Beneath the 12-Mile Reef (letterbox), Fahrenheit 451 (letterbox), Psycho (letterbox, with documentary), Taxi Driver (letterbox), Vertigo (letterbox, with documentary). And soon to be released: Jason and the Argonauts (letterbox), Snows of Kilimanjaro. . . . . . 22 May 1998 TAXI DRIVER released Source: Intrada Arista has now released the extended version of this classic score on CD. Liner notes is by Martin Scorsese. Arista 19005 (58 minutes). . . . . . 22 May 1998 GARDEN OF EVIL in June Source: John Morgan It looks like Marco Polo is now finally releasing GARDEN OF EVIL and a suite from PRINCE OF PLAYERS. The long awaited new recording by William Stromberg and John Morgan is set to be released on June 26. . . . . . 22 May 1998 CONCERTO MACABRE: new recording Source: Guenther Koegebehn Naxos has released a low budget CD titled Warsaw Concerto and other Piano Concertos from the Movies featuring Herrmann's Concerto Macabre from HANGOVER SQUARE. The CD with RTE Concerts Orchestra conducted by Proinnsias O'Duinn also features music by Miklos Rozsa, Nino Rota, and others. . . . . . 12 May 1998 Torn Curtain Source: Varese Sarabande While we're still waiting for the new recording of Garden of Evil to be released (Marco Polo, get your act together) Varese Sarabande has announced that the new recording of the complete rejected score for Hitchcock's Torn Curtain with Joel McNeely conducting the National Philharmonic Orchestra will be out on June 2, 1998. . . . . . 12 May 1998 New videos Source: Ken Cranes and Brian Hangartner It's Alive and It Lives Again (It's Alive II) with music by Herrmann and reuse of the same music respectively has been released on a double bill LaserDisc (letterboxed). The special edition of Psycho will also be released on DVD in addition to LaserDisc. Also on DVD is the restored version of Vertigo. . . . . . 12 May 1998 Psycho '99 Source: various It has been reported that there will be a remake of the classic 1960 Alfred Hitchcock film Psycho. Updated for the Generation X the remake will be shot by shot identical to the original but with "new hip actors/actresses" (and in color). The film will be directed by Gus Van Sant. It is unknown at the moment whether Herrmann's original music will be used in any way. See www.cinescape.com and do a search for 'Psycho' for more information. This must be just what the world needs. . . . . . 24 March 1998 Psycho Signature Edition LaserDisc Source: Blam Entertainment/Scott Minty MCA/Universal is releasing a special letterboxed LaserDisc of Psycho with Herrmann's music isolated on separate tracks. This will be the first legal release of the original soundtrack to this notorious 1960 Hitchcock film. The disc will also include a documentary on the making of the film, the shower scene with and without music, and more. The estimated street date is May 26, 1998. For more information visit Blam Entertainment on www.blamld.com/Universal/SignatureCollection.htm. . . . . . 24 March 1998 The Taxi Driver bootleg Source: anonymous The bootleg CD of the original soundtrack from Taxi Driver has been released in spite of the threats and announced legal release from Arista. The CD has 56 minutes of music including an alternate finale. The disc has been released in very limited numbers and is not available through regular bootleg outlets. . . . . . 9 March 1998 New recording of Jason and the Argonauts Source: Roger Feigelson During 1998 Intrada will do a complete recording of Herrmann's 1963 fantasy score from Jason and the Argonauts conducted by Bruce Broughton. "Reconstruction of the complete score is well underway, and the entire score will be recorded, including music that wasn't heard in the film." I know many of you have been waiting for this for a long time. . . . . . 9 March 1998 New recording of The Egyptian Source: Film Score Monthly Bill Stromberg and John Morgan will go to Moscow in April to record Bernard Herrmann and Alfred Newman's The Egyptian. It will be 60-70 minutes with choir and with more Herrmann cues than on the the original album (the 1954 rerecording). It will also identify the composer for each cue. The Stromberg/Morgan recording of Garden of Evil/Prince of Players is now set for April. Both albums will be on the Marco Polo label. . . . . . 9 March 1998 Encore: More Music for the Cinema Source: Bob Kosovsky Bob Kosovsky now has an extended version of his 1997 exhibit on display in the Amsterdam Gallery of the New York Public Library of the Performing Arts (Lincoln Center, NY). Included in the exhibit is the opening page of Herrmann's manuscript for the radio melodram City of Brass. The music was later incorporated into Jason and the Argonauts for the scene where Triton allows the boat carrying Jason and his crew to safely pass through the dangerous rocks. The exhibit is on display till May 22. . . . . . 10 February 1998 Are you messing with me? Arista fights back In the early seventies a label called Sound/Stage Recordings released a number of Herrmann bootleg LPs. So what would be a better name to use for a new Herrmann bootleg CD label in the 90s? Soundstage Records have released 4 CDs in recent years without getting booked, and now was the time to do Taxi Driver. But Arista didn't like that, they said "We're gonna get those boys." Arista have owned the rights to the original recordings since the movie came out in 1976, when they put out an LP (and later CD) consisting of some original tracks, some original tracks with dialogue, and one side of 'disco' arrangements by Dave Blume. Herrmann fans have waited for a proper release ever since and it now looks as it's going to happen. Arista have annouced a complete stereo CD for release in 1998, produced by Didier C. Deutsch. To bad it would take bootleggers to make this happen. One concern, though. The original LP/CD has become some sort of a cult album for non-filmmusic fans and I wonder whether Arista will resist the temptation of including dialogue and Blume cues, making less room for the Bernard Herrmann original score. It should also be noted that credits for the two Taxi Driver Theme recordings from the original album (the original and the Dave Blume version) have gotten mixed in recent CD releases. Tom Scott plays saxophone only on the Dave Blume version and this is the one with a disco ending. . . . . . 10 February 1998 The Earth Stood Still by Silva Silva will do a new recording of THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL, probably the suite, for release in 1998. . . . . . 10 February 1998 What's coming in 1998 Just for the record here's a short list of albums annouced for release during 1998. Garden of Evil/Prince of Players - new recording by Stromberg and Morgan (Marco Polo). This was originally scheduled for release at the end of 1996, but has been pushed back and forth ever since. Announced now for April 1998. Torn Curtain - conducted by Joel McNeely (Varese-Sarabande); sometime 1998 Citizen Kame - conducted by Joel McNeely, soprano by Janice Watson (Varese-Sarabande); sometime 1998 Taxi Driver - extended OST album (Arista); 1998 Night Digger - OST in DTS digital surround (Fifth Continent), not playable on regular equipment; 1998 . . . . . 5 December 1997 Garden of Evil delayed again Source: Film Score Monthly, Tony Runfalo Stromberg and Morgan's new recording of GARDEN OF EVIL/PRINCE OF PLAYERS has been delayed again. This time till summer 1998. But it'll be worth the wait. [see 10 February 1998] However, for those of you in that part of the world, PRINCE OF PLAYERS will be shown on CINEMAX on December 20th. . . . . . 5 December 1997 Great Shakespeare Films London/Decca have released another of their Herrmann conducted albums on CD. Music from the Great Shakespeare Films includes Shostakovich's Hamlet, Walton's Richard III Overture and Rozsa's Julius Caesar. Cat.no. 4 455 156-2. Originally released in 1975. . . . . . 5 December 1997 War of the Worlds now on CD Also recently out is a new CD of the original broadcast of WAR OF THE WORLDS. From Listener's Choice. . . . . . 5 December 1997 Echoes on paper For those who reads music, www.jwpepper.com has a new sheet for sale, Echoes - Herrmann's 1965 string quartet. . . . . . 5 December 1997 FAHRENHEIT 451 on DVD If you have one of those new DVD players installed at home you might want to get the letterbox version of FAHRENHEIT 451 which is now available (don't know if it's got separate music tracks or not). . . . . . 17 September 1997 New published scores Source: Themes and Variations, John Waxman John Waxman's Themes and Variations have published several new scores of Herrmann's music (with more to come). . . . . . 17 September 1997 GARDEN OF EVIL delayed Source: Marco Polo Bill Stromberg and John Morgan's new recording of Garden of Evil and Prince of Players (Marco Polo) have been delay again. It will be released in October at the earliest. The team of Stromberg and Morgan is now preparing for a trip to Moscow to record another Herrmann album. Stay tuned for more news. . . . . . 17 September 1997 PSYCHO concert/film in France Source: Film Score Monthly Orchestra de Chambre Phil., University of Chermont-Ferrand, conducted by Baudine Jam will perform the complete score to PSYCHO live to the film on December 7. . . . . . 17 September 1997 Digital Night Digger Source: Film Score Monthly Fifth Continent will reissue the original tracks of The Night Digger (The Road Builder), this time remastered in DTS 5.1 Digital Surround. Due late 1997. . . . . . 17 September 1997 Varese Sarabande - Muir, Kane and Curtain Source: Film Score Monthly The original soundtrack of The Ghost and Mrs. Muir is due September 23. This is in the second batch of the revived classic Fox scores series this fall. Liner notes by Steven C. Smith. From a batch of 6 new recordings including the upcoming Torn Curtain and Citizen Kane (both cond. McNeely) two albums will be released in October. Due to the high frequency of Herrmann releases this fall, Varese might choose to hold on to Kane and Curtain a bit longer... . . . . . 17 September 1997 TAXI DRIVER bootleg Source: Soundtrack! Magazine Soundstage will release a 57 min. bootleg CD of Taxi Driver. The Bernard Herrmann Web Pages does not support bootlegs or illegal so-called private releases. . . . . . 27 August 1997 JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH Varese-Sarabande have now released this long awaited 1959 score in the revival of the Fox Classic Film Scores series (stereo). Planned for next month is Herrmann's The Ghost and Mrs. Muir. . . . . . 30 July 1997 McNeely's PSYCHO released Varese-Sarabande and Joel McNeely's new recording of Psycho hit the streets on July 29th. Making it McNeely's third recording of Herrmann. . . . . . 30 July 1997 New recording of CITIZEN KANE Source: Film Score Monthly Not only has Varese-Sarabande and Joel McNeely teamed together for Herrmann's rejected score for Torn Curtain, a complete Citizen Kane is also on it's way, including the Salaambo Aria performed by Janice Watson. This will make the fifth recording of Herrmann's music by McNeely. Falling short only for the master himself. Torn Curtain is expected later this year or early next. . . . . . 30 July 1997 New distributor for Decca Source: Fono Forum Decca/London will be getting a new distributor and is planning a series of 35 reissues of Phase 4 albums. Herrmann's recordings of Ives' Second Symphony and Holst's The Planets wouldn't be unheard of... . . . . . 30 July 1997 Herrmann Demo Music Source: Movie Collector's World magazine Bill Wrobel, California, has been going through archives and transcribing cues from Herrmann TV shows, then recorded a demo tape using synthesizers. . . . . . 30 July 1997 Williamsburg video Source: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation For those of you who'd like to obtain a copy of Williamsburg: the Story of a Patriot, a 30-minute film Herrmann scored in 1956, can get this from the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, P.O.Box 1776, Williamsburg, VA 23187, USA. Phone (757) 229-9839 ext. 2809. Fax (757) 565-8985. This is an updated address from what was printed in Film Score Monthly a while back. . . . . . 10 June 1997 Garden of Evil CD delayed Source: John Morgan The release of William Stromberg and John Morgan's new recording of Garden of Evil and Prince of Players has been delayed. The release date has now been set to late August in the US, with probably a month earlier in Europe. Morgan also comfirmed that he and Stromberg will be going to Moscow in October to do another Herrmann recording. . . . . . 10 June 1997 New York exhibit: Music for the Cinema Source: Bob Kosovsky Bob Kosovsky's talk Approaching CITIZEN KANE: Bernard Herrmann's path to film music which were going to be held at the New York Public Library in conjunction with the exhibit Music for the Cinema on June 5 has been postponed. The exhibit which includes scores by Herrmann is on display until September 27 (1997). . . . . . 10 June 1997 Mobile Fidelity releases Great Film Classics Source: Bjørn Slaug Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab has set the release date for the audiophile CD of Music from Great Film Classics to June. This will be the 4th Herrmann gold CD to come from this label; the others being Fantasy Film World of Bernard Herrmann, Mysterious Film World of Bernard Herrmann, and Four Faces of Jazz. [www.mofi.com/udcd701.htm] . . . . . 10 June 1997 Vertigo laserdisc sold out The newly released laserdisc of the restored Vertigo is currently out of stock. New pressings is on the way. . . . . . 10 May 1997 Fox Film Scores' Classic Series continues Source: Film Score Monthly Varese Sarabande has signed the contract with Fox and will release 16 albums over the next two years. The first batch will be released in August this year and will include 66 minutes from the original soundtrack of Journey to the Center of the Earth. The second batch (September) will include The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (might be coupled with A Hatful of Rain). All CDs will be in stereo. Other releases in the first two batches are Planet of the Apes/Escape from the Planet of the Apes and The Mephisto Waltz/The Other. Later in the series there will be a CD of BENEATH THE 12-MILE REEF/GARDEN OF EVIL. . . . . . 10 May 1997 Garden of Evil, Psycho and Vertigo The restored version of Vertigo was released on video and laserdisc late April (USA). The new recordings of Garden of Evil with Prince of Players (Stromberg/Morgan) and Psycho (McNeely) should be in the stores by June. . . . . . 4 April 1997 Torn Curtain by McNeely Source: various Joel McNeely, conductor of the recent recording of Vertigo and the upcoming Psycho, have just recorded Herrmann's music for Hitchcock's Torn Curtain (Varese Sarabande). No release date yet for this CD. . . . . . 4 April 1997 Psycho on LD Source: Tom DeMary MCA is planning a deluxe LaserDisc release of Psycho. Nothing is certain at this stage, but MCA's other releases in their 'signature edition' series have had separate music tracks or CDs. . . . . . 1 March 1997 John Williams conducts excerpt from THE DEVIL AND DANIEL WEBSTER Source: Jeffrey Wheeler/FILMUS-L Composer John Williams recorded with the London Symphony Orchestra an album of music by Oscar-winning composers called The Hollywood Sound, including score excerpts from Herrmann's THE DEVIL AND DANIEL WEBSTER. Other excerpts are "Dances with Wolves," "Out of Africa," "The Best Years of Our Lives," "Lawrence of Arabia," "The Adventures of Robin Hood," "The Godfather: Part II," "Spellbound," "A Place in the Sun" (with saxophonist Grover Washington), "E.T." "Jaws," and "Star Wars." This was released Feb. 11th. . . . . . 1 March 1997 The restored VERTIGO: on LaserDisc, and coming to Europe Source: Steven C. Smith The LaserDisc of the restored VERTIGO will be released in the US in late March or early April. The disc will have a second audio track with running commentary by restorers Robert Harris and James Katz, VERTIGO producer Herbert Coleman, and Steven C. Smith (author of the Herrmann biography). There will also be many other extras, including a couple of stills of Herrmann. Finally the restored version of VERTIGO premiered in Europe at the Berlin Film Festival in February. There will be a London premiere in the near future, before openings in other European cities during the spring. . . . . . 11 February 1997 PSYCHO, GARDEN OF EVIL and WILLIAMSBURG Source: Film Score Monthly/Ron Bohn Joel McNeely and Royal Scottish National Orchestra's recording of PSYCHO is due March 11 (might be pushed back a month; Varese Sarabande). Marco Polo's release of GARDEN OF EVIL (and PRINCE OF PLAYERS) is due in March. . . . . . 6 February 1997 The Wrong Man on CD Source: Bjørn Slaug Screen Archives Entertainment (writemoore.com/st-cafe/frmcat.html) has announced that a private release of The Wrong Man is expected in the near future. This film has always been the most neglected in the Herrmann/Hitchcock collaborations and it's great to see it getting a release. [Released 27 Feb. 1997] . . . . . 4 February 1997 Taxi Driver on new video disc system Source: Columbia Pictures Taxi Driver will be among the first batch of films to be released on the new DVD, Digital Video Disc system in April this year. The new system supports multiple aspect ratios, and the film will be available in both the original widescreen (letterbox) format and in traditional cropped TV (pan&scan; 4:3) format, on the same disc. . . . . . 13 January 1997 Restored Vertigo on video Source: Universal Studios Home Video The restored version of Vertigo will be released on LaserDisc by Universal Studios Home Video on March 25, 1997. The THX certified disc, in letterbox, and with digital stereo surround sound, will be part of the 'Signature Collection' and have a retail prince at .98. . . . . . 13 January 1997 Great Movie Thrillers on audiophile vinyl Source: Geoffrey Halaburt The 1969 Decca/London album Music from the Great Movie Thrillers has been reissued on LP by the audiophile label Speakers Corner. . . . . . 16 November 1996 McNeely records complete Psycho Source: Ford A. Thaxton According to reliable sources Joel McNeely and the Royal Scottish Orchestra recorded the complete score for Psycho earlier this year. The CD will be released by Varese Sarabande. . . . . . 16 November 1996 Decca/London US release The recently discontinued UK CDs of Great Film Classics and Great British Film Music will be released in the US on November 19 (see August 20-27 below for more info). . . . . . 14 November 1996 New CDs from Mobile Fidelity, Varese and Soundstage Source: Intrada; Bob Fleming Mobile Fidelity has now released The Mysterious Film World of Bernard Herrmann on (gold) CD (one month earlier than reported). The 1958 original soundtrack recording of Vertigo is released by Varese Sarabande in a more complete form. Soundstage has put out the OSTs of Fahrenheit 451 and Psycho. The first one has 9 bonus tracks including The Naked and The Dead, Five Fingers, Prince of Players and Garden of Evil. . . . . . 28 October 1996 Garden of Evil CD delayed The release of the new Marco Polo recording of Garden of Evil and Prince of Players has been delayed till early next year. . . . . . 3 October 1996 New CD of Vertigo OST Varese Sarabande is releasing the original soundtrack recording of Vertigo on November 5. . . . . . 3 October 1996 New bootlegs of Fahrenheit 451 and Psycho Source: Screen Archives Soundstage Records who recently released a bootleg CD of Cape Fear is now planning releases of the Fahrenheit 451 and Psycho OSTs (these were released early November; see 'recent releases' for more info). . . . . . 3 October 1996 Los Angeles concert Source: Steven C. Smith On Monday, October 21, the Los Angeles Philharmonic will perform a benefit concert for the Los Angeles Philharmonic Musicians Pension Fund. Titled A LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC TRIBUTE TO THE MOVIES, it will feature suites from Herrmann scores; they've also been recorded by the Philharmonic, and due out on CD. The program is as follows (source: Scott Minty): E. Bernstein: Suite from The Magnificent Seven Williams: "Flying Theme" from E.T. Herrmann: Prelude, The Man Who Knew Too Much Psycho: A Suite for Strings Suite from Marnie Suite from Vertigo Stravinsky: Le sacre du printemps . . . . . 16 September 1996 Decca discontinues recent releases Source: Peter Briggs London/Decca discontinues the recent CDs of Great Film Classics and Great British Film Music just a few weeks after their British release. Reason not known. . . . . . 30 August 1996 New releases by Mobile Fidelity Source: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab Mobile Fiedlity (www.mofi.com) will probably release two more classic Bernard Herrmann albums in the near future. The first one out is The Mysterious Film World of Bernard Herrmann (1975) with music from The Three Worlds of Gulliver, Mysterious Island and Jason and the Argonauts. The next one is Music from the Great Film Classics (1971) with music from Citizen Kane/The Magnificent Ambersons, Jane Eyre, The Snows of Kilimanjaro and The Devil and Daniel Webster. Both albums which are originally London/Decca Phase 4 Stereo recordings, will be released on Ultradisc II gold CD and 200-gram LP with original cover and liner notes. The first one is sceduled for LP release in December and CD release in January. A preliminary review will be presented on the Herrmann web pages. . . . . . 20 August 1996 Screening of North by Northwest in Glendale (USA) If you live near Glendale, USA, you should take a visit to the Alex Theatre. [...] . . . . . 20 August 1996 New CD releases Here is the upcoming and recent release information for August (in no particular order). London/Decca has rereleased two more of their Phase 4 albums on CD in England (dates for US and world wide releases are not known). The first one is Great Film Classics with Citizen Kane/Magnificent Ambersons, The Devil and Daniel Webster, Jane Eyre and The Snows of Kilimanjaro from the 1971 album Music from Great Film Classics, and Mysterious Island and Jason and the Argonauts from The Mysterious Film World of Bernard Herrmann. The second CD is Great British Film Music with Herrmann conducting music by other composers. This is the complete 1975 recording plus Richard III from 'Great Shakespearean Films'. (source: Peter Briggs/FILMUS-L) Herrmann is conducting Louis Kaufman and the Columbia Symphony Orchestra in a recording of Robert Russell Bennett's Violin Concerto concerto released on CD by Cambria as Pan Americana. Four Faces of Jazz has been released by Mobile Fidelity on CD (Ultradisc II, gold). This is a 1971 recording of Herrmann conducting music by Weill, Gershwin, Stravinsky and Milhaud. Koch/Laser X (Label X?) is releasing a CD with music from Battle of Neretva, Sisters and The Night Digger titled Bernard Herrmann at the movies. This is a compilation of the original soundtrack recordings (source: cdchoice). Silva has repackaged some of their Herrmann recordings on a compilation CD titled Herrmann Hitchcock - a Partnership in Terror. This CD includes the Herrmann music from the History of Hitchcock CDs and the 'Hitchcock music' from the Torn Curtain - The Classic Film Music of Bernard Herrmann CD. . . . . . 1 August 1996 CD release of The Ghost and Mrs. Muir Source: Steven C. Smith "The upcoming months may see the CD release of the original The Ghost and Mrs. Muir soundtrack, virtually complete (label to be determined). It sounds quite extraordinary, given the recordings age; the separate microphone stems have been combined, to create a pseudo-stereo sound far superior to what you might expect (it sounds comparable to the The Day the Earth Stood Still compact disc). The urgency and the emotion of the recording really come through. There are also plans, as yet not solid, to release a virtually complete CD of Journey to the Center of the Earth (which sounds breathtaking in its original stereo), and a suite from A Hatful of Rain (original tracks)." . . . . . 1 August 1996 New recording of Garden of Evil and Prince of Players Source: Steven C. Smith "Just as exciting [as the release of The Ghost and Mrs. Muir] is a new, complete recording of Garden of Evil, conducted by film composer/orchestrator William Stromberg and recorded in Moscow. Pardon me for sounding hyperbolic, but the sound is superb, the playing outstanding and the style vividly "Herrmann-esque." A 15-minute Prince of Players suite will also be on the disc (also conducted by Stromberg, and assembled by film composer John Morgan). I believe this disc will be released by Marco Polo sometime around the end of the year." . . . . . 16 July 1996 Herrmann vinyl auction This isn't exactly a news item but I don't have anywhere else to put it: Herrmann vinyl auction is available at users.aol.com/garagesail/website/strack.htm. . . . . . 1 July 1996 Web news The new Recordings Section is now up and running. . . . . . 29 June 1996 Web news: 85th Anniversary The Bernard Herrmann Web Pages celebrates the Bernard Herrmann 85th Anniversary. . . . . . 14 June 1996 SPFM Preservation at Paramount Pictures The Society for the Preservation of Film Music (SPFM) has just finished with the preservation at Paramount Pictures. Among the exciting new finds were scores and parts of Herrmann's Psycho, Vertigo and The Man Who Knew Too Much. . . . . . 4 June 1996 New recordings: Hitchcock/Truffaut and Hangover Square Source: Movie Score and Film Score Monthly Sony is releasing a Herrmann compilation of music from Hitchcock and Truffaut films (Esa-Pekka Salonen conducting the Los Angeles Philharmonic) in September. And Marco Polo is planning a release of the Concerto Macabre from Hangover Square (along with Addinsell's Warsaw Concerto, and Cornish Rhapsody). . . . . . 29 May 1996 New release: Cape Fear Source: Intrada A new "private pressing CD with good sound" of the original soundtrack from Cape Fear (1961) has been released by Soundstage Records. . . . . . 26 May 1996 Restoring Vertigo Read about the restoration of Vertigo (the film) here. A review of the new rerecording by McNeely is also available in the Review section. . . . . . 6 May 1996 New recording of Garden of Evil and Prince of Players Source: Film Score Monthly Marco Polo in planning a release of Garden of Evil and Prince of Players. . . . . . 22 April 1996 New and upcoming releases Mobile Fidelity is releasing The Four Faces of Jazz on LP in May. This is Herrmann conducting the London Festival Recording Ensemble, 1971. Music by Weill, Gershwin, Stravinsky and Milhaud. This is originally a Decca recording. London Records is releasing four of their old Phase 4 Herrmann recordings. Great Film Music (443 899-2) (The Fantasy Film World of Bernard Herrmann, 1974 + The Three Worlds of Gulliver from The Mysterious Film World of Bernard Herrmann, 1975) on May 14. Hitchcock Movie Thrillers (443 895-2) (Music from Great Movie Thrillers, 1969) on May 14. Erik Satie and Darius Milhaud (443 897-2) ("Erik Satie and His Friend Darius Milhaud", 1972) Herrmann conducting music by Satie and Milhaud, on June 11. Classic Jazz (444 785-2) (The Four Faces of Jazz, 1971, + Ravel's Five O'Clock Foxtrot from The Impressionists, 1970) on June 11. . . . . . 26 March 1996 Web news: The essential recordings A guide to essential Herrmann recordings has been written by Travis Halfman and is available in the Archive section. . . . . . 21 March 1996 Web news: hypernews New service available: Bernard Herrmann hypernews. Check it out! [Too late! Noone used it so it was discontinued a year later. It was revived in 1999 as Talking Herrmann and was a great success..., ed.] Changes on the Recordings page: A special icon has been added to recommended recordings. [and removed, ed.] . . . . . 1 February 1996 Restoring Vertigo Source: The Hollywood Reporter 1996 should see not only the release of the Varese Sarabande rerecording of Vertigo, but the actual score from the film is also being restored for a release. . . . . . 30 January 1996 New recording of Vertigo This spring Varese Sarabande will release the complete music for Vertigo (65m) with Joel McNeely conducting the Royal Scottish Orchestra. (It's now released, ed.20Mar96) . . . . . 30 January 1996 New bootlegs Tsunami has released two new bootlegs. Fahrenheit 451 (TSU 0136) and The Marvelous Film World of Bernard Herrmann, vol. 2 (TSI 0610; with music from A Hatful of Rain, On Dangerous Ground and Hangover Square). . . . . . 25 January 1996 The Journal of Film Music New research material on Bernard Herrmann will be published in the upcoming Journal of Film Music. Editor William H. Rosar. Watch this space for more information. . . . . . 3 November 1995 Herrmann documentary on LaserDisc and VHS Sony has just released the 58 minute documentary Music for the Movies: Bernard Herrmann on LaserDisc (.98) and VHS (NTSC). The movie contains interviews with Martin Scorsese, Elmer Bernstein and Herrmann himself. . . . . . 3 November 1995 New CD from Silva Silva has released a CD with music from Torn Curtain, Cape Fear, Psycho and other films (rerecordings) with Paul Bateman and the Prague City Philharmonic Orchestra. . . . . . 3 November 1995 The Fantasy Film World of Bernard Herrmann on CD A 24K gold CD titled The Fantasy Film World of Bernard Herrmann with the National Philharmonic Orchestra is to be released by Mobile Fidelity on December 12, 1995. This 1974 recordings will also be released on LP. . . . . . 4 June 1995 New CD of the North by Northwest OST A CD containing all the music (plus outtakes) from the OST of North by Northwest is to be released by Rhino on June 20. . . . . . 1 May 1995 New CD of Fahrenheit 451 Varese Sarabande is releasing a new recording of Fahrenheit 451 (a 20 minute suite) (VSD5551) with Joel McNeely and the Seattle Symphony Orchestra. The CD also includes a suite from Anna and the King of Siam and short outtakes from The Man In the Gray Flannel Suit, Tender Is the Night and The Ghost and Mrs. Muir. Release date is May 9th. . . . . . 1 May 1995 Bootleg CD from Tsunami Tsunami is releasing another Herrmann bootleg titled The Marvellous Film World of Bernard Herrmann. OST of Cape Fear, King of the Khyber Rifles, Beneath the 12-Mile Reef and Garden of Evil. . . . . . 2 March 1995 New CD of The Three Worlds of Gulliver Cloud Nine Records is releasing the original recording (OST) of The Three Worlds of Gulliver on CD: ACN 7018. This one has extra cues (complete recording) and better sound than the ACN 7014 release. . . . . . 2 March 1995 New CD from Silva Silva Screen Records is releasing a new CD called To Catch a Thief: A History of Hitchcock, vol.2 (FILMCD 159) which will include sections from North by Northwest, Vertigo and The Trouble with Harry (+more). The City of Prague Philharmonic conducted by Paul Bateman. . . . . . 2 March 1995 The Egyptian CD discontinued Please note that the OST from The Egyptian has been discontinued by cdeurope.com ... . . . . . 1 February 1995 New CD of Souvenirs de Voyage and Echoes In December Unicorn-Kanchana released the Unicorn 1974 recording of Souvenirs de Voyage clarinet quintet and the Pye 1966 recording of Echoes string quartet. The CD can be found on cdconnection.com and cdnow.com as QRT CLAR/QRT STRINGS. . . . . . 1 February 1995 Fox planning CD Fox is also planning on releasing the OST of Journey to the Center of Earth in the Classic Series. . . . . . 1 February 1995 End This is how far the news back-log goes. The news page was part of The Bernard Herrmann Web Pages right from the start, in late 1994. . . . . .
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