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

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Mon Mar 30 12:08:01 PDT 2009


He was also conducting concerts. I have some live stuff by him, of his and 
other composers' music like a Golden Earrings Suite.

dl

Bertrand CHAUMELLE wrote:
> Because he had a cushy job at CBS ?
> 
> BC
> Le 30 mars 09, à 18:02, Stephen Davies a écrit :
> 
>> 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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