#59 – The Day the Earth Stood Still

Settling the Score by Settling the Score

May 23, 20231:34:26TV & Film

This time Jon and Andy land their spaceship in the middle of Bernard Herrmann’s score for the 1951 sci-fi classic The Day the Earth Stood Still ! How strongly was Herrmann committed to musical otherness? What peculiar in...

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