Heart At Fire''s Center - The Life and Music of Bernard Herrmann

Informationen zum Autor Steven C. Smith is an award-winning author! journalist! and television producer who has written extensively about film! music! and television. He has worked as a producer for HBO Entertainment News and NBC's Weekend Today ; has been a writer/producer on the A&E series Biography; and was supervising producer of the AMC series Backstory. He is also the author of Film Composers (1991). Klappentext This first major biography of the composer explores the interrelationships between Herrmann's music and his turbulent personal life! using much previously unpublished information to illuminate Herrmann's often contradictory behavior! his working methods! and why his music has had such lasting impact. Zusammenfassung No composer contributed more to film than Bernard Herrmann, who in over 40 scores enriched the work of such directors as Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Francois Truffaut, and Martin Scorsese. This biography explores the interrelationships between Herrmann's music and his turbulent personal life.

Product details

• Authors: Steven C. Smith, Smith Steven C.
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.06.1991
• EAN: 9780520071230
• ISBN: 978-0-520-07123-0
• No. of pages: 400
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Monographs; Biography: general, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups, MUSIC / Individual Composer & Musician, Musicians, singers, bands and groups, Composers and songwriters