When you hear the word, "Psycho," do you immediately hear screeching, stabbing violins?
Take a Deep Dive with host Christy L'Esperance into Bernard Herrmann's score to the 1960 Hitchcock horror film, Psycho and find out how Hitchcock and Herrmann together brought the creepy factor to a new level, drawing in crowds of teenagers, followed by decades of film scholars.
Without the "rree! rree! rree! rree!" and the rest of the brooding score, would we uncover the evidence of Psycho in songs from the Beatles to the Beastie Boys or in films ranging from Mel Brooks spoofs to Jaws? Not bloody likely.
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The chant "Dies Irae," or "Day of Wrath," has its origins in the Funeral Mass. Was it always so creepy? -
Does this saga end with a tidy conclusion or a tense cliffhanger? -
How did this composer's music, considered out of style at his death, become so popular that it was "Muzak'd to death" 200 years later?
