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The Arts Intel Report

Hitchcock's Psycho in concert

Sept 13–14, 2019
10 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023, USA

It’s scored for strings only, as if meant to be played on taut nerves. The opening five chords stab at silence, a foreshadowing. Unleashed under the opening credits, it sounds like music let out of a cage. Bernard Herrmann’s score for Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho could be the unstable grandchild of Le Sacre du Printemps. The Philharmonic plays it, while the movie runs. —L.J.