Bernard Herrmann

Toru Takemitsu: The Music of Anxiety

MN Opera: Wuthering Heights

Orchestra Hall goes 'Psycho'

​Those stabbing violin notes that play during the famous shower scene of Alfred Hitchcock's thriller Psycho were kind of an accident. Hitchcock didn't want any music to play during that gruesome moment, but the movie's composer, Bernard Herrmann, composed something anyway and Hitchcock immedia ... More >>

Deeper Into Movies

'Bad Education' takes a studious approach to the meta-movie

Amon Tobin: Out from Out Where

'Bad Education' takes a studious approach to the meta-movie

The Long Goodbye

'Bad Education' takes a studious approach to the meta-movie

Mothers of Invention

Stereolab's Laetitia Sadier and Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon compare notes on motherhood, degradation, and musical longevity

Scoring

Sound + Vision: A new generation of DJs and musicians play cut 'n' paste with film history.

Cinephilia, Eyestrain, Vertigo

This year's New York Film Festival kept movie buffs reeling.