Bernard Herrman
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Bernard Herrman
Bernard Herrman
Born on June 29, 1911, Bernard Herrman showed an interest in music at a young age. His father Abram took him to operas and symphonies which sparked the little boy's curiosity. He took on the violin and soon began music lessons. After his youth, Herrnam attended the New York University and was conducting orchestras by the age of eighteen. Eventually he put down his violin and picked up the piano. He (remove also, as well is enough) started to concentrate more of his time on conducting as well.
After school, he was hired by CBS in 1934 to write for educational programs. He was hired(Use another verb, just used hired above) as the conductor(CONDUCTOR FOR WHAT?) and eventually began writing for the radio dramas. Through radio, Herrman met director Orson Welles who gave him the opportunity to score for the popular radio program "Mercury Theater". As a result, their friendship led to Herrman's move into the motion pictured industry. Citizen Kane, which was directed, starred, and co-written by Welles, was Herrman's first project. It was about the life of a businessman (1 word I think), Kane and focused around the mystery of his final words before his death. In 1939, he traveled to Hollywood and scored his first motion picture. Here he used his own technique of scoring (try another word, just used scoring) and decided not to follow the Hollywood trend of using non-stop music throughout the film. The dark, eerie opening scene is now considered timeless as the camera moves slowly through the Kane estate. The film was a complete success and was ranked as the number one movie of the twentieth century by the American Film Institute. He was nominated for an academy award, but lost. Welles later gave half of the movie's success to Herrman.
His next film score (2 words) was All That Money Can Buy in 1941, with director William Dieterle . Known as one of his more bright scores, Herrman experimented "Â…with...
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