{"id":10348,"date":"2007-02-12T10:35:50","date_gmt":"2007-02-12T17:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/02\/12\/the-music-of-alfred-hitchcock.html"},"modified":"2007-02-12T10:35:50","modified_gmt":"2007-02-12T17:35:50","slug":"the_music_of_alfred_hitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/02\/12\/the_music_of_alfred_hitch.html","title":{"rendered":"The Music of Alfred Hitchcock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Or, at least, of his movies.  From Saturday&#8217;s NPR Morning Edition, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=7268315\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;Hitchcock&#8217;s Music&#8217; Scores Big on Suspense<\/a>&#8220;:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>American Studies professor Jack Sullivan examines the celebrated director&#8217;s relationship to sound in his new book, <em>Hitchcock&#8217;s Music<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Hitchcock&#8217;s fruitful and sometimes volatile collaboration with such composers as Bernard Hermann <em>Psycho<\/em>, <em>Vertigo<\/em>, <em>North by Northwest<\/em>) and Miklos Rozsa (<em>Spellbound<\/em>) created some of the most gripping scores of all time. <\/p>\n<p>Sullivan tells Scott Simon about some favorite musical moments, notes Hitchcock&#8217;s fondness for waltzes and discourses on how his use of music has influenced generations of filmmakers.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Fun article (and, appropriately, an audio one).<\/p>\n<p><small><\/p>\n<p>(via Avocet)<\/p>\n<p><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or, at least, of his movies. 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