Howard Goodall is the great musical communicator. He is like the David Attenborough of music. I've learned so much from his programmes, all of which I watch and re-watch regularly.
@brendancronin47865 жыл бұрын
I've rewatched the Beatles episode 5 or 6 times
@johannesbluemink45813 жыл бұрын
I started collecting all movies with his music and I find so many layers of genius and invention. And he can be so romantic, as I love his 'The Ghost and Mrs. Muir' so dearly. I do hope that the 9 dislikes I see, somehow turn into Likes, because I can find no negative thing in his music. His personality, on the other hand, was very complex. He made enemies as easy as we have a normal conversation. Well, thanks to that brilliant Biography 'A Heart at Fire's Centre'!
@kirsteni.russell59038 жыл бұрын
The discussion of Herrmann's influence on the way we hear music reminds me of my own experience. I became a Herrmann fan in my adolescence--mainly through Vertigo, North by Northwest, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Psycho, and Fahrenheit 451. As a young adult, I fell in love with Debussy's La Mer and Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, and I believe having previously listened to Herrmann opened my mind to hear those 20th century works as emotional experiences.
@Dicedude6 жыл бұрын
I had a very similar experience. I was about 14 or so when I was first introduced to Herrmann's work. Such a shame that he passed away so young. He was the epitome of the creative genius.
@luclheureux44807 жыл бұрын
Herrmann was a goddamn genius
@saidtoshimaru18326 жыл бұрын
The Score of Vertigo is a total masterpiece.
@oscar6464 жыл бұрын
I so appreciate learning of this towering genius. We walk around most of the time unaware of essential things and especially essential people who have added so much to our life’s experience.
@jslasher14 жыл бұрын
Despite some obvious errors, this is a very good overview of Bernard Herrmann's motion picture music.
@steveweinstein32227 жыл бұрын
Goodalls' personal campaign to have film scorers taken seriously as comosers is admirable and long overdue. As usually happens in art, those grubbing about in the marketplace end up creating masterpieces, while those wallowing in comfortably enervating academia create ephemera that no one wants to listen to.
@oscar6464 жыл бұрын
Viva the marketplace!
@GOGOLH Жыл бұрын
Morricone was another probable genius who struggled to be takes seriously.
@kirsteni.russell59038 жыл бұрын
Bernard Herrmann's music kept haunting me as I was growing up--and was unable to find a single recording of his music before he started recording it (OSTs of VERTIGO and THE SEVENTH VOYAGE OF SINBAD existed before then, but I never saw them). Until I started meeting fellow fans, I thought I was the only one in the world! Now I know he's tremendously admired around the world, but it's still strange to me to see him included in an overview of 20th century music including the Beatles, Leonard Bernstein, and Cole Porter!
@jimpickard38503 жыл бұрын
What a fascinating film about a true great of cinema.
@emdiar65884 жыл бұрын
It's a good job Hitchcock gave credit to the importance of Herrmann's contribution to Psycho. It is the first thing you think of when you hear the title, much like the Jaws theme. Both the panic of the shower scene in the former and the brooding threat of an approaching danger in the latter are entirely due to the music.
@nathanscott52969 жыл бұрын
Howard Goodall is correct about Bernard Herman for creating movie scores. Psycho has a classic soundtrack.....two great men in different genres but Hitchcock and Herman completed each other.
@EASYTIGER105 жыл бұрын
14:52 What an amazing sound..
@willb36987 жыл бұрын
Hermann worked together with someone else who changed the landscape of films entirely - the animator Ray Harryhausen. What an amazing time.
@nathanfleischman98569 жыл бұрын
What is a classical composer that would come before the four composers of this series? The answer is Charles Ives. His pieces were influenced by a plethora of different styles of American folk music. At the same time, he anticipated many elements of 20th-century classical music that made Stravinsky and Schoenberg famous.
@MsSusanmary9 жыл бұрын
Nathan Fleischman its never all about USA only
@nathanfleischman98569 жыл бұрын
Even I know that.
@J0HNJ0RDAN9 жыл бұрын
Jerry Goldsmith, John Williams and even Jon Lord are a few 20th century greats I enjoy.
@brendancronin47865 жыл бұрын
Also ennio morricone
@ThomasTVP3 жыл бұрын
What Mr. Gooddall fails to acknowledge is that another Hollyood composer, Miklós Rózsa, had widely used the theremin years earlier, in his Oscar-winning score for SPELLBOUND, as well as the nominated (but actually stronger) score for THE LOST WEEKEND. Other Hollywood composers who employed the theremin before Herrmann were Franz Waxman (Bride of Frankenstein, 1935) and Roy Webb (The Spiral Staircase, 1945).
@bingeltube5 жыл бұрын
Very recommendable!
@alicethedestroyer12874 жыл бұрын
So, I love Herrmann. Probably my favorite composer. But Goodall’s reaching in so much of this. I could go point for point on so much of this. He makes it sound like Herrmann was the first “electronic” composer... but Rozsa did the same thing in the 1940’s. He says it was all startlingly new... but only after saying the theremin was over 50 years old.
@boneeatingsilicate5804 жыл бұрын
However, Herrmann was experimenting with telephone wires years earlier in Daniel Webster
@alicethedestroyer12874 жыл бұрын
Jason Henry Herrmann was a great composer, and probably the greatest film composer who ever lived. It just feels like Goodall is touching on hyperbole in a lot of this.
@boneeatingsilicate5804 жыл бұрын
Yep, Franz Waxman as early as '35 with Brides and, even Steiners Kong 2 years before that showed inventive musical approaches.
@steveweinstein32227 жыл бұрын
When Bette Davis saw the scored ending of Dark Victory, in which she goes to room knowing she is to die, she told director William Whyler, "Either Mr. Korngold goes up that staircase or I do, but we are not going up there together."
@brendancronin47865 жыл бұрын
I've never seen that film can you give me some context to her saying that
@georgependill35415 жыл бұрын
What does that have to do with Herman?
@Theaterklaspromo5 жыл бұрын
This quote isn't quite correct, as Korngold did not score Dark Victory.
@jslasher14 жыл бұрын
@@Theaterklaspromo Steiner scored 'Dark Victory'. Miss Davis never made that comment.
@alicethedestroyer12874 жыл бұрын
Overdubbing unheard of in film? Please tell me how they managed to mix music, vocals, and sound effects in all earlier pictures then... lol
@flaggerify8 жыл бұрын
Wasn't the theremin used in Spellbound (1945)?
@samsun2167 жыл бұрын
Either way, it is seriously overblown to say he was the first composer of electronic music before Stockhausen and Varese. As well as saying the score for Psycho made the idea of minimalism possible.
@everett4037 жыл бұрын
The Day The Earth Stood Still brought electronic music to the general public early on, to a world wide audience and thus greater exposure. That much is true. But others did also do electronic music at the time. And Psycho brought minimalism to film music when that was not the norm at the time..
@steveweinstein32227 жыл бұрын
One could argue (I have) that the first EDM music came from Steve Reich & Phillip Glass. These kinds of judgments are always subjective. It's certainly true that exponentially more people were exposed to Herrmann's compositions than ever will be to Stockhausen & Varese.
@willb36987 жыл бұрын
Deniz Güngören - in fairness he (Goodall) doesn't actually state either of those 2 points you mention. I don't assume that English is your 1st language - so it could be lost in translation.
@HMV1016 жыл бұрын
flaggerify Yes it was; by composer Miklos Rosa.
@Muskoz7 жыл бұрын
Interesting piece. Unfortunately, the music he uses to illustrate Schoenberg's serialism is not by Schoenberg (it's from one of Webern's Pieces for Orchestra, Op. 10), nor is it a serial piece; he ought to know better. Still his point about the end of Psycho is well taken.
@kaspafischer5 жыл бұрын
Charles Smith Howard is always snide about Schoenberg throughout his programs. LOL
@josephmarcello74818 ай бұрын
Has to Bernard herrman 's being slighted in the groves dictionary, this is nothing else but the epitome of British snobbery as it has always been and seems compelled to continue to be. While I haven't done the research, I would imagine that they're coverage, say, of Samuel Barber, arguably America's preeminent composer in terms of sheer creative gifts, receives a far more humble mention than the often boring and frequently. Uninteresting Benjamin Britten, not to mention a dozen other British sub impressionists, such as Delius or GeraldFimzy When the English aristocrats shed their highbrow pretensions and come down to mix with the rest of the rebel of planet Earth, they will see that they have been living in a tiny teacup of cultural pedigree, to be inside, of which of course, is quintessentially British, however stilted and tedious that maybe, but outside of which is a world, a veritable universe of rich, dynamic creation. Bernard had two counts against him... He was an American as well as a film composer, although, you should know, he did compose exquisitely beautiful concert and chamber works as well. So, leave groves to the worms and will take Bernard.