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A TRIBUTE TO BERNARD HERRMANN – PART I

GUEST HOST: AMER ZAHID

Cinematic Sound is proud to add another personality to our ever-expanding roster of guest hosts.  Amer Zahid is a lifelong film-music aficionado and collector from Karachi, Pakistan. His formal introduction to film music began at age 7 with John Williams’ SUPERMAN: THE MOVIE in the late 70’s and it opened the floodgates for his love of film music. Amer has written for Lukas Kendall’s Film Score Monthly, Len Mullinger’s Film Music on the Web as well as other internet-based film music review websites. Amer’s favourite composers are John Williams, Jerry Goldsmith, John Barry, Miklos Rozsa, Maurice Jarre and of course Bernard Herrmann. Herrmann’s music from Alfred Hitchcock’s PSYCHO and VERTIGO had a profound effect on him and was quick to embrace the works of the legendary Golden Age composer.

    Amer recording his Herrmann special

In this first part of Cinematic Sound’s celebration of Bernard Herrmann’s 100th anniversary, (which was actually last year – Bernard Herrmann was born on June 29, 1911 – so we are a little late to the party, big whoop, wanna fight about it?) Amer will be exploring, among other things, Herrmann’s career with legendary directors Orson Welles and Alfred Hitchcock and presenting music from THE SEVENTH VOYAGE OF SINBAD, ON DANGEROUS GROUND, THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS, NORTH BY NORTHWEST, VERTIGO, 5 FINGERS, THE SNOWS OF KILIMANJARO and THE GHOST AND MRS. MUIR.

Listen to part two by clicking HERE!


PLAYLIST • INTRO (0:00) • THE SEVENTH VOYAGE OF SINBAD (3:39) • ON DANGEROUS GROUND (10:17 • THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS (18:10) • NORTH BY NORTHWEST (31:48) • VERTIGO (35:35) • 5 FINGERS (51:58) • THE SNOWS OF KILIMANJARO (55:25) • THE GHOST AND MRS. MUIR (1:01:05)

This Post Has 7 Comments

  1. Joel

    Great show…looking forward to Part 2!

    1. Erik Woods

      Part 2 should be available sometime this week!

  2. Mike Skerritt

    This is fantastic. Well done Amer! Looking forward to P2!

  3. Amer Zahid

    Thank You gentlemen. Part 2 should be coming very soon.

  4. Timmer

    Excellent work Amer, great to hear your voice too, I enjoyed this.

    Tim

  5. Bregt

    Good show indeed, with some music I hadn’t heard before. Thanks for this. Very well done! Fits the shows Cinematic Sound completely.

    On to Part 2.

  6. Amer Zahid

    Thank you: Timmer & Bregt!

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