Finally, it is the communicating link between the screen and the audience, reaching out and enveloping all into one single experience.
BERNARD HERRMANNFinally, it is the communicating link between the screen and the audience, reaching out and enveloping all into one single experience.
BERNARD HERRMANNI feel that music on the screen can seek out and intensify the inner thoughts of the characters. It can invest a scene with terror, grandeur, gaiety, or misery. It can propel narrative switftly forward, or slow it down. It often lifts mere dialogue into the realm of poetry.
BERNARD HERRMANNYour views are as narrow as your tie.
BERNARD HERRMANNI like to write music which takes its inspiration from poetry, art and nature. I do not care for purely decorative music.
BERNARD HERRMANNAlthough I am in sympathy with modern idioms, I abhor music which attempts nothing more than the illustration of a stylistic fad. And in using modern techniques,
BERNARD HERRMANNAs a composer I might class myself as a Neo-Romantic, inasmuch as I have always regarded music as a highly personal and emotional form of expression.
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