{"id":19681,"date":"2012-02-10T06:00:06","date_gmt":"2012-02-10T11:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/?p=19681"},"modified":"2013-04-01T18:52:36","modified_gmt":"2013-04-01T22:52:36","slug":"hitchcock-and-herrmann-alliance-of-giants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.moviefanfare.com\/?p=19681","title":{"rendered":"Hitchcock and Herrmann: Alliance of Giants"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Alfred<\/a><\/p>\n

Alfred Hitchcock<\/a> and Bernard Herrmann<\/a> were established\u00a0professionals when they began to work together …\u00a0Hitchcock\u00a0a\u00a0great director, and Herrmann a great composer.\u00a0 They did not need each other to be remembered for their work, but together they\u00a0created a unique partnership in\u00a0movie history.\u00a0 Both were strong-willed men, both\u00a0clung to their own ideas, and their relationship was stormy.\u00a0 But what matter to us?\u00a0 Their eight-film alliance, from The Trouble with Harry<\/a> in 1955 to 1964’s Marnie<\/a>, produced some of the best movies ever made, because of\u00a0Hitchcock’s incredible\u00a0film visions and Herrmann’s musical genius.<\/p>\n

I have always considered Vertigo<\/a> to be Hitchcock’s masterpiece, and believe it was so in large part because of the perfection of Herrmann’s\u00a0musical score.\u00a0 To celebrate both, I decided to listen to the Main Theme from Vertigo as interpreted by the fabulous Los Angeles Philharmonic and conductor Esa-Pekka-Salonen.\u00a0 To those who have seen Vertigo, no more needs to be said.\u00a0 For those who have not, no more needs to be explained as the strongest recommendation to do so.<\/p>\n