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I was just checking out Ebay, seeing what they had on there of Herrmann's and I came across something very odd.
Up for bids is an LP of Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles, with music by Herrmann and Norman Corwin had his hand in this production as well!
I'm assuming this is a record of a radio dramatization.
Does anyone know anything about this? Was it a specially composed score, or did they just reuse Fahrenheit 451?
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If it IS a score written specifically for "Chronicles," it'd be especially interesting to find out whether a music-only tape exists somewhere.
(P.S. If you want to read something really stupid, check out the thread "Herrmann Can't Write Westerns.")
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Nope, afraid not! Stanley Myers wrote the terrific score for that production!
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If (P.S. If you want to read something really stupid, check out the thread "Herrmann Can't Write Westerns.")
Awwww... It's not stupid! EVeryone is entitled to be unhappy with a Herrmann score!
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There was a 1950 radio dramatization based on "The Martian Chronicles"; if that's what the LP is of, it wouldn't surprise me if Herrmann had been hired to do the music, since he and Corwin had collaborated on many radio productions in the '30s and '40s.
Years ago, I picked up an LP on Cerberus Records of music Herrmann wrote for radio plays. Among those was an adaption of Huxley's Brave New World. Seems like Herrmann wrote a little bit of everything.
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Dear Jim:
He doesn't dislike A score; it's clear he doesn't like, or get, Herrmann -- period.
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Apr 29, 2014 - 1:50 PM
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Jim Doherty
(Member)
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Just to set this matter to rest over a decade later:
First of all, what is included on this LP are two 1/2 hour episodes from 1950 of the series DIMENSION X. These are interesting radio adaptations of Bradbury's "Mars is Heaven" and "The Martian Chronicles," but I wanted to note that, despite what is says on the LP jacket, the music is NOT by Bernard Herrmann, it doesn't even sound like him. As a matter of fact, the first piece heard within the actual story part of "The Martian Chronicles" broadcast is an arrangement for harp and organ of Claude Debussy's song "Beau Soir."
Also note that this series aired on NBC - Herrmann worked at CBS, not NBC. Also, this LP has edited the broadcasts, so that the spoken credit at the end of the show, "Music by Arthur Berman," is missing.
If you'd like to hear the show, go to:
https://archive.org/details/OTRR_Dimension_X_Singles
and skip to episodes 14 and 20.
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It's also worth noting that Norman Corwin also had nothing to do with these productions, but were in fact adapted by my friend and neighbor Ernest Kinoy. (Corwin also worked more or less exclusively for CBS.)
"Dimension X" and it's follow-up series "X-Minus One" are wonderful science-fiction anthology series, and I highly recommend them for their smart scripts, sharp performances, and evocative production design.
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