MUSIC246 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Citizen Kane, Bernard Herrmann, Monty Norman
28 Aug 2015
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Gets his start on cbs radio 1934: developed the skill to write music for directors in a short amount of time. Very opinionated, terrible person, rude person but he was very talented . Orson wells: radio adaptation of war of the worlds. That was given in short news reporters, in which people actually thought they were being invaded: orson wells became a star. Travels to hollywood with wells in 1940. Orson wells was extraordinarily with the new camera angles, sound editing and was remaking lm history. Huge success of a lm, orson wells became a director star. After citizen kane and a few projects after they have a falling out and go there own separate ways. Up to this point in history scores were being written for jazz bands or orchestras. Every city had a full orchestra so it made sense for your piece to be played.
