[78-L] ? Bernard Herrmann, 1947-51

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Mon Mar 30 10:49:32 PDT 2009


Let's see..a 78RPM discography for Benny Herrmann....

MACBETH..Orson Welles/Mercury Theatre Company, Columbia, 1941

HANGOVER SQUARE PIANO CONCERTO..Janssen Symphony of Los Angeles, Victor, 
unreleased on 78, Camden LP (c. 1955)

Betcha that's it.

dl

Stephen Davies wrote:
> Folks,
>         can anyone tell me why Bernard Herrmann stopped composing for film 
> between the years 1947 and 1951?  Was it simply for personal reasons?  I 
> notice that he divorced author Lucille Fletcher during that time.
>         I saw the gap in his output accidentally when I was looking for 
> some replacement discs for a different film composer, Miklos Rozsa.  Rozsa 
> had put the score for "The red house" (1947) on a three disc album.  What 
> would a 78 RPM discography for Herrmann look like?
> - Stephen D
> Calgary
> 




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