{"product_id":"dvoraks-prophecy-film-5","title":"Beyond Psycho - The Musical Genius of Bernard Herrmann (Dvořák's Prophecy) (DVD)","description":"\u003cp\u003eDVOŘÁK’S PROPHECY – A New Narrative for American Classical Music\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFilm 5: Beyond Psycho – The Musical Genius of Bernard Herrmann\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA PostClassical Ensemble ‘More than Music’ film\u003cbr\u003eWritten and produced by Joseph Horowitz\u003cbr\u003eVisual presentation by Peter Bogdanoff\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHollywood’s supreme film composer was a casualty of the standard narrative – as he himself was bitterly aware. Not only were his movie scores high creative accomplishments; Bernard Herrmann was a formidable – and formidably unfashionable – concert composer whose Clarinet Quintet may be the most beautiful chamber music by an American. His Psycho Narrative, which we also sample, surpasses the PsychoSuite we normally hear. He honed his gift for dramatising the spoken word as the pre-eminent composer for a genre no longer remembered: the radio drama. We sample Whitman (1944) – a Norman Corwin radio play that deserves to live as a concert work. It also exemplifies how radio, an unprecedented mass medium, once consolidated the American experience, its biggest star being Franklin D. Roosevelt. Our participants include the Whitman scholar Karen Karbiener, the critic Alex Ross, Murray Horwitz on radio lore, and William Sharp on playing Walt Whitman to music by Bernard Herrmann. – J.H.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMusic:\u003cbr\u003eBernard Herrmann\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ewith\u003cbr\u003eWilliam Sharp\u003cbr\u003ePostClassical Ensemble\u003cbr\u003eAngel Gil-Ordóñez\u003cbr\u003eJoseph Horowitz\u003cbr\u003eMurray Horwitz\u003cbr\u003eDavid Jones\u003cbr\u003eKaren Karbiener\u003cbr\u003eAlex Ross\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePicture format: NTSC 16:9\u003cbr\u003eSound format: PCM Stereo\u003cbr\u003eRegion code: 0 (worldwide)\u003cbr\u003eAudio language: English\u003cbr\u003eRunning time: 61 mins\u003cbr\u003eNo. of DVDs: 1 (DVD 9)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"NAXOS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49991900594426,"sku":"2110702","price":6.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0067\/4660\/3571\/files\/2.110702.jpg?v=1786398736","url":"https:\/\/classicselectworld.com\/products\/dvoraks-prophecy-film-5","provider":"ClassicSelect World","version":"1.0","type":"link"}