From my YouTube channel I discuss the classic records made in the 1960s and 70s by Bernard Herrmann for Decca Phase 4 Stereo. These recordings of music from his own scores included Citizen Kane, ...
https://hollywoodandallthat.com/2021/08/19/bernard-herrmann-on-decca-phase-4/
Text originally published in the Financial Times, November 22nd 1986 One of the regular high spots of the London Film Festival in the past half decade has been the presentation each year of one o...
https://hollywoodandallthat.com/2021/08/14/silent-movies-live-again/
One of the legacies of my extended sojourn in chapel choirs, from the age of 7 to 22, is an abiding love for unusual corners of the Anglican choral repertoire. Long before I myself had to compo...
https://hollywoodandallthat.com/2016/03/27/the-musical-poet-of-sweet-melancholy-orlando-di-lasso/
The Making of David Bowie’s “Heroes”
https://hollywoodandallthat.com/2016/01/23/the-making-of-david-bowies-heroes/
How do you create one of the most iconic pieces of electronic music — and most popular TV themes — of all time? Watch the pioneering members of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, including th...
https://hollywoodandallthat.com/2015/12/29/a-short-history-of-the-doctor-who-theme/
It’s a signature time for robots. In real life we’ve got Curiosity taking a years-long constitutional on the red planet, Rosetta dropping in on Comet67P, drones over the White House and Iraq,...
https://hollywoodandallthat.com/2015/07/01/the-other-terminator-marvin-the-paranoid-android/
I will never forget the first time I entered the unique film world of John Boorman. I was around 17 or 18. A matinee screening of Zardoz at the National Film Theatre on London’s South Bank. I w...
To transfigure: to transform into something more beautiful or elevated There are experiences in all our lives that so completely transcend the mundane that we step out of time completely. Those e...
https://hollywoodandallthat.com/2014/11/13/beethoven-transfigured-the-neuen-effect/
“Einstein’s Monsters” is a collection of short stories and essays by the distinguished British author, Martin Amis (“Money”, “The Rachel Papers”). The book formed the basis for a ...