Hitchcock/Herrmann Music in QT's Hollywood Movie (NO SPOILERS)
In other threads, I spoil how the un-used music by Bernard Herrmann for Torn Curtain(principally his music for The Death of Gromek) is used in QT's new movie Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. NO SPOILERS HERE.
Here is further information, not about where the music is used, but how it came to be:
In a July 26, 2019 net interview with Variety, QT's music director Mary Ramos spells out the story on the Herrmann music:
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"(QT) wanted to stay true to the period, and that even expanded into the score choices, like the Bernard Herrmann score pieces we use. Herrmann was the premier film composer of the time -- real Hollywood royalty -- and so we use some of the music from "Torn Curtain." If you are a Bernard Herrmann geek like me, you know that "Torn Curtain" was the score that Hitchcock threw out, so there's only a few existing pieces of the original Herrmann score that were recorded, and we used one of those in the movie, and then we also use a piece that Elmer Bernstein re-recorded."
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Keep in mind that Elmer Bernstein, composer of The Magnificent Seven, re-recorded Herrmann's 1962 Cape Fear AND 1966 Torn Curtain music for Scorsese's Cape Fear remake in 1991.
And this: Scorsese brought all this un-used Torn Curtain music into the movies in 1991 in his Cape Fear remake -- one year later, 1992, Tarantino debuted with Reservoir Dogs.