Topic: I HEART HERRMANN (Read 14214 times)

bk · « **on:** September 26, 2013, 12:45:32 AM »

Well, you've read the notes, the notes hearted Herrmann, and now it is time for the Herrmannesque cows to come home.

bk · « **Reply #1 on:** September 26, 2013, 12:46:24 AM »

And the word of the day is: NOISOME!

Ben · « **Reply #2 on:** September 26, 2013, 12:47:35 AM »

Morning all.

That is all.

Michael · « **Reply #3 on:** September 26, 2013, 04:19:46 AM »

good morning to all

Michael · « **Reply #4 on:** September 26, 2013, 04:20:41 AM »

two different dentist appoints this morning.

singdaw · « **Reply #5 on:** September 26, 2013, 04:36:14 AM »

You've never seen it like THIS!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=dK_dfNKPxTk#t=78

singdaw · « **Reply #6 on:** September 26, 2013, 04:46:41 AM »

bk, it is too early in LA for you to be up and on this board!!

singdaw · « **Reply #7 on:** September 26, 2013, 04:47:30 AM »

Sorry for my absence last night; I was staying at a friend's house, dog-sitting, and didn't have access to a computer.

singdaw · « **Reply #8 on:** September 26, 2013, 04:49:40 AM »

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, GEORGE!!

Doug R · « **Reply #9 on:** September 26, 2013, 04:54:13 AM »

I received "The Pleasure of his Company" CD today. I had to go to the post office to collect it because I wasn't in when delivery was attempted yesterday. Unusually, I had to sign for it. I haven't had to sign for a Kritzerland CD before but this one had a tracking number so required a signature. New policy?

The Kritzerland boxes are very substantial but this one still didn't stop some of the CD teeth from breaking off, as happens so often, no matter how well packaged from the U.S.

Doug R · « **Reply #10 on:** September 26, 2013, 04:57:57 AM »

I enjoyed eating breakfast out so much that I did the same today (I must stop this from becoming a habit). I went to a different restaurant but this time the fried eggs were too runny for my liking. The coffee arrived after the eggs and bacon had arrived and I had to ask the waitress twice for some sugar before it arrived. So I won't be going there again.

Robin Raianiemi · « **Reply #11 on:** September 26, 2013, 05:18:56 AM »

Topic of the day:

The first movie score I really noticed, and really hooked me, was Leonard Rosenman's score for Fantastic Voyage. For better or worse, that score molded my tastes in music, and bent them to the avant-garde.

I heart Rosenman.

My favorite Bernard Herrmann score is for The 7th Voyage of Sinbad. Which is also one of my all-time favorite movies, and a movie I seem incapable of getting weary of.

Kerry · « **Reply #12 on:** September 26, 2013, 05:23:24 AM »

TOD: Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Psycho and Obsession

I always paid attention to movie scores- the first where I noticed the music more was maybe "Lawrence of Arabia"

elmore3003 · « **Reply #13 on:** September 26, 2013, 06:16:27 AM »

Good morning, all! The alarm rang at 7:30 and I went back to sleep for another hour. I did not sleep well last night, and I believe a lot of it had to do with my body adjusting to the new mattress.

This morning I've got physical therapy, and that's pretty much my day.

Ginny · « **Reply #14 on:** September 26, 2013, 06:27:58 AM »

Thursday morning greetings! This morning I'm going to a funeral - the father of a mutual friend of mine and DR Elmore's.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #15 on:** September 26, 2013, 07:14:41 AM »

Quote from: Ginny on September 26, 2013, 06:27:58 AM

Thursday morning greetings! This morning I'm going to a funeral - the father of a mutual friend of mine and DR Elmore's.

DR Ginny, thanks for sending the obituary. To my knowledge, I never met Andrea's father, but I was very fond of her mother. Please tell Andrea I send my love.

Druxy · « **Reply #16 on:** September 26, 2013, 07:37:54 AM »

TOD:

I think the first (non-song) movie score that left an impression on me was GONE WITH THE WIND.

However, I think that the first time I actually took note of a particular composer was when I heard Victor Young's score for RUN OF THE ARROW, which (I believe) was his last. I love that score and, thankfully, it's now out on CD.

Nothing against Hermann, but you can't hum him.

Druxy · « **Reply #17 on:** September 26, 2013, 07:42:29 AM »

Aside from songs in Disney movies, the one movie song that stuck with me from my childhood is "Some Sunday Morning" from SAN ANTONIO (1945) , an Errol Flynn Western that I saw when I was four-years old.

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #18 on:** September 26, 2013, 08:07:24 AM »

TOD: First film composer I took note of was Alfred Newman. I was in my early teens and 20th Century-Fox films cropped up on TV quite a bit (before Saturday Night at the Movies, too). Saw lots of Fox films from the 40s before NBC introduced us to the Fox films of the 50s.

First soundtrack album I owned: "Exodus" (a gift) by Ernest Gold
First soundtrack album I bought: "To Kill A Mockingbird" by Elmer Bernstein

Favorite Herrmann scores:
(In no particular order)

Trouble With Harry
Vertigo
North By Northwest
Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Beneath the 12-Mile Reef
The Egyptian (co-composed with Alfred Newman).
Journey to the Center of the Earth
On Dangerous Ground
Hangover Square
The Day the Earth Stood Still

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #19 on:** September 26, 2013, 08:09:46 AM »

Quote from: Doug R on September 26, 2013, 04:57:57 AM

I enjoyed eating breakfast out so much that I did the same today (I must stop this from becoming a habit). I went to a different restaurant but this time the fried eggs were too runny for my liking. The coffee arrived after the eggs and bacon had arrived and I had to ask the waitress twice for some sugar before it arrived. So I won't be going there again.

You should send the restaurant a note detailing your experience there. I find no excuse for what you endured.

Jrand75 · « **Reply #20 on:** September 26, 2013, 08:22:06 AM »

Shocking service DR DOUG R.....yes write a letter.

Jrand75 · « **Reply #21 on:** September 26, 2013, 08:23:16 AM »

Watching Damsel in Distress on TCM......Burns & Allen keep right up with Fred Astaire in their two dance numbers together, and it is a delight....more so than leading lady Joan Fontaine.... And the Gershwin score is, of course, fantastic!

Jrand75 · « **Reply #22 on:** September 26, 2013, 08:25:42 AM »

RISING SUN arrived today!

Favorite Hermann scores:

Psycho
Citizen Kane

Probably the first film composer I heard of or saw the name of was Max Steiner in KING KONG on television....and of course I knew of his music from GONE WITH THE WIND.

First soundtrack/score albums I bought were probably Elmer Bernstein....loved:

The Ten Commandments
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Carpetbaggers
Walk on the Wild Side
True Grit
Where's Jack?

Jrand75 · « **Reply #23 on:** September 26, 2013, 08:26:02 AM »

To Tell the Truth was Bud Collyer not Bill Cullen, but CLOSE......

Jrand75 · « **Reply #24 on:** September 26, 2013, 08:27:57 AM »

My favorite panelists on TTTT were Polly Bergen and Peggy Cass.....HATED Tom Poston and Orson Bean...a couple of pills.....

One night they had a famous hair stylist on....and Bergen was asking questions about setting the hair or pinning the hair before or after washing it....and all the contestants got mixed up. When it came time to vote Bergen said: "I don't think it's any of them....not a one of them has set a pin curl in his life!" LOL

Jrand75 · « **Reply #25 on:** September 26, 2013, 08:29:00 AM »

Another night they had a composer on and Bergen asked each of the contestants....what is your ASCAP rating....two of them fumbled and the real guy answered:

Somewhere between you and Irving Berlin......

Jrand75 · « **Reply #26 on:** September 26, 2013, 08:29:19 AM »

Too much ME on this page.

Jrand75 · « **Reply #27 on:** September 26, 2013, 08:30:50 AM »

Locally they are broadcasting the funeral of the police officer who was killed in the line of duty...it is very sad.

Kate · « **Reply #28 on:** September 26, 2013, 08:34:36 AM »

Good morning all:

TOD:

FAVORITE BERNARD HERRMANN SCORES:

Vertigo
North By Northwest
Psycho

FIRST COMPOSER I LIKED:

Frederick Lowe,
1ST SOUNDTRACK ALBUM:

Camelot, ( Actually I think my mother purchased it)

Doug R · « **Reply #29 on:** September 26, 2013, 08:37:06 AM »

Quote from: Ron Pulliam on September 26, 2013, 08:09:46 AM

Quote from: Doug R on September 26, 2013, 04:57:57 AM
I enjoyed eating breakfast out so much that I did the same today (I must stop this from becoming a habit). I went to a different restaurant but this time the fried eggs were too runny for my liking. The coffee arrived after the eggs and bacon had arrived and I had to ask the waitress twice for some sugar before it arrived. So I won't be going there again.

You should send the restaurant a note detailing your experience there. I find no excuse for what you endured.

You're right Ron. I should have complained at the time. I guess I'm too much of a wimp!

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Ben