Bernard Herrmann didn’t want to be a composer. He wanted to be a conductor. He wrote the scores for so many great films but if he had only created the strings for Psycho
that would have been enough. He also wrote music for many other Hitchcock films and worked with other directors. His score for Cape Fear was so good that Marty Scorsese just used it agai…
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