As long as I’m kvelling about other bloggers, today I notice that Fredösphere shares my enthusiasm for Alfred Hitchcock’s North By Northwest, both the film and the score
Fred’s comparison with Philip Glass is valid, and that opening montage is a great combination of music and image.
I first encountered that “Overture” when I was in my teens. I was sitting at a piano playing some sort of noodley-noodley ersatz Philip Glass thingy, when a friend pointed out that it sounded just like the North By Northwest “Overture”, so I had to check it out.
Does anyone know if there’s a study score available, by the way? Some other Bernard Herrmann scores are out there, but I haven’t seen this one. I once did a fairly meticulous mental transcription of the basic material, but I’d love to see the real thing.
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