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Psycho Suite
Music by Bernard Herrmann
Arr. Michael Gancz '22
Conducted by Maggie Schnyer '24 (DPops Debut)
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~Program Notes~
Bernard Herrmann's score to Psycho is one of the most influential works in the history of music and cinema, especially in horror and thriller media. Herrmann's composition takes long-form structural cues from the leitmotif tropes of early cinema and injects into them a new life by means of neoclassical harmonies and compositional techniques that would not become commonplace in film scores for years after Psycho's 1960 release. The result is a sound at once familiar and uncanny, classical and modern, delicate and terrifying. This reduction of Herrmann's concert suite recalls some of the film's most recognizable themes: the prelude, "Marion," "The Madhouse," "The Window," "The Peephole," and the instantly recognizable and spine-chilling "The Murder." This performance is the DPops conducting premiere for Assistant Conductor Maggie Schnyer, and the tenth DPops arrangement by Head Conductor Michael Gancz.
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Psycho Suite
Music by Bernard Herrmann
Arr. Michael Gancz '22
Conducted by Maggie Schnyer '24 (DPops Debut)
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~Program Notes~
Bernard Herrmann's score to Psycho is one of the most influential works in the history of music and cinema, especially in horror and thriller media. Herrmann's composition takes long-form structural cues from the leitmotif tropes of early cinema and injects into them a new life by means of neoclassical harmonies and compositional techniques that would not become commonplace in film scores for years after Psycho's 1960 release. The result is a sound at once familiar and uncanny, classical and modern, delicate and terrifying. This reduction of Herrmann's concert suite recalls some of the film's most recognizable themes: the prelude, "Marion," "The Madhouse," "The Window," "The Peephole," and the instantly recognizable and spine-chilling "The Murder." This performance is the DPops conducting premiere for Assistant Conductor Maggie Schnyer, and the tenth DPops arrangement by Head Conductor Michael Gancz.
