Symphony of Suspense
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Movie composer Bernard Herrmann making a cameo appearance in the orchestra scene, AND making score for the movie.
FANTASTIC!!!!
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Notice on the clip starting at 6:57 that the timpanist is not actually connecting the mallets to the drum heads. He is faking and draws back 2 to 4 inches before reaching them. Presumably they are going through the motions to a prerecorded track (at least in that shot). I noticed that many years ago and it always cracked my up whenever I would see that scene. Still though, a great suspense classic.
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Originally this music is average suspense-feeling, but Hitchcock made it 100% suspenseful!!!
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Sure - SHE screams out in the middle of a performance and is hailed as a heroine. But when I scream out "JUST DIE ALREADY" during the third act of Tristan and Isolde they throw me out of the theater! Where's the justice?
9 months ago 3
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Australian composer Arthur Leslie Benjamin wrote the music for the original 1934 version of the film, with lyrics by D. B. Wyndham-Lewis (who co-wrote the screenplay). For the remake, Hitchcock asked Bernard Herrmann to craft a piece for the Royal Albert Hall climax. Herrmann believed the "Storm Cloud Cantata" still to be perfect for the scene, and merely expanded it. Performed by London Symphony Orchestra, Covent Garden Chorus, with Barbara Howitt, Soloist and Bernard Herrmann conducting.
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Thumbs if you were sent here by the book "The Musical Experience" by John J. Chiego!
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Now if someone can tell me where I can find/buy a complete orchestra score of Herrmann's arrangement of Arthur Benjamin's "Storm Clouds Cantata" I would be forever grateful.
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@hello152984 The piece is a cantata entitled "Storm Clouds Cantata" by Arthur Benjamin, a British composer. The sinister fellow who shoots at the prime minister is a great character actor of the period named Reggie Nadler.
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The very definition of "Pure Cinema".
The way the cuts are timed with the music, the pacing, the choice of shots, the music itself AND the added bonus of seeing Herrmann conduct. This scene ALWAYS brings me to tears.
vittoriostoraro 2 years ago 16
@rijstevlaai I second that! I am a huge Hitchcock fan, and I keep coming back to this scene as my all-time favorite. It is cinematic perfection. You don't need to know exactly what Stewart and Day are saying, nor the others. Hitch's genius in large part was his mastery of visual art. Many of his greatest moments on film have no dialogue. He was truly a master.
ncmtman 2 years ago 11