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PA Mss 236
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Title: Larry Cohen Bernard Herrmann
It's Alive collection
Identifier/Call Number: PA Mss 236
Language of Material:
English.
Contributing Institution:
UC Santa Barbara Library, Department of Special Research Collections
Physical Description:
1.67 Linear Feet
(1 oversize flat box)
Creator:
Cohen, Larry, 1936-2019
Source:
Timpone, Anthony
Date: 1973
Date: 2004
Abstract: Collection of Bernard Herrmann material belonging to director Larry Cohen, including the complete original manuscript score
to
It's Alive by Herrmann, as well as Herrmann's sixty-three page music cue sheet, twelve photographs from the score recording sessions
for the 1974 film, one concert program, and a letter (2004) to Cohen from horror author, editor, and producer Tony Timpone.
Physical Location: Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library
The collection is open for research.
Property rights to the collection and physical objects belong to the Regents of the University of California acting through
the Department of Special Research Collections at the UCSB Library. All applicable literary rights, including copyright to
the collection and physical objects, are protected under Chapter 17 of the U.S. Copyright Code and are retained by the creator
and the copyright owner, heir(s), or assigns.
All requests to reproduce, quote from, or otherwise reuse collection materials must be submitted in writing to the Department
of Special Research Collections at UCSB at special@ucsb.edu. Consent is given on behalf of the Regents of the University of
California acting through the Department of Special Research Collections at UCSB as the owner of the physical items and is
not intended to include or imply permission from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright
owner, heir(s), or assigns. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the
copyright owner or their assigns for permission to publish where the UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
[Identification of Item], Larry Cohen Bernard Herrmann
It's Alive, collection, PA Mss 263. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California,
Santa Barbara.
Library purchase, 2022.
Collection of Bernard Herrmann material belonging to director Larry Cohen, including the complete original manuscript score
to
It's Alive by Herrmann, as well as Herrmann's sixty-three page music cue sheet and twelve photographs from the score recording sessions
for the 1974 film.
The score is signed on the first page, signed and dated "Dec 1973" on the last page, and stamped "Composed by Bernard Herrmann"
at the top right of the first page, with holograph annotations by Herrmann in red and magenta marker and pencil throughout,
as well as amendments on overlayed labels.
The manuscript includes two variants of the first page. The first is missing a line for Moog synthesizer, with the annotations
"+ Moog," below Solo V. D'amore, and "Copy V. da + Moog together." The second variant includes the line for Moog synthesizer
and has the right side of the page overlayed by an annotated xerographic duplication of the first, stapled to the page. The
score, written for horns, winds, harps, viola d'amore, Moog synthesizer, electric bass, organ, and percussion, is composed
in 38 parts, with reel and cue numbers noted.
Herrmann's 63-page music cue sheet contains three holograph annotations by Herrmann in red pencil and black marker.
The twelve black-and-white photographs are from the 1973 (December 24, 27) score recording sessions at St. Giles Cripplegate
Church in London. Six photographs include Herrmann and Cohen, two with annotations on the back, one in Cohen's hand. Two photographs
are of Herrmann at the mixing board, one with Cohen and three crew members, and the second, a blue tinted vertical enlargement
of the same photograph featuring just Herrmann and Cohen.
Three photographs are close up shots of Herrmann conducting, one of which has the annotation on the back, in Cohen's hand,
noting the session was "during power shortage / blackout - Xmas 1974. Freezing cold - orchestra + conductor / wearing coats."
Lastly, a photograph of Herrmann and orchestra mid-performance, annotated on the back in Cohen's hand.
The inscribed concert program is from the "Byron Concert," which commemorated the 150th anniversary of the death of Lord Byron,
and was conducted by Herrmann at the Theatre Royal on April 21, 1974.
The autograph letter from Timpone, dated October 28, 2004, on Starlog Entertainment letterhead, thanks Cohen for participating
in the Bravo television special "The 100 Scariest Scenes of All Time," and an upcoming Fangoria convention.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Concert programs
Correspondence
Cue sheets
Photographs
Scores (documents for music)
Cohen, Larry, 1936-2019 -- Archives
Herrmann, Bernard, 1911-1975 -- Archives
It's alive (Motion picture : 1974) -- Archives
Timpone, Anthony