Editing Bernard Herrmann (section)

==Collaboration with Orson Welles==
[[File:Mercury-Theatre-Radio-Rehearsal-1938.jpg|thumb|left|Herrmann conducts the CBS Radio orchestra at a rehearsal of ''[[The Mercury Theatre on the Air]]'' directed by [[Orson Welles]] (1938)]]
While at CBS, Herrmann met [[Orson Welles]], and wrote or arranged scores for radio shows in which Welles appeared or wrote, such as the ''[[Columbia Workshop]]'', Welles's ''[[The Mercury Theatre on the Air|Mercury Theatre on the Air]]'' and ''[[The Campbell Playhouse (radio series)|Campbell Playhouse]]'' series (1938–1940), which were radio adaptations of literature and film. He conducted the live performances, including [[The War of the Worlds (1938 radio drama)|Welles's famous adaptation]] of [[H.G. Wells]]'s ''[[The War of the Worlds]]'' broadcast on October 30, 1938, which consisted entirely of pre-existing music.{{efn-ua|Herrmann kept a list of all original music he composed for radio and did not include anything from ''The War of the Worlds'', indicating that there was no new music composed for it. This list is now part of the Bernard Herrmann Papers at the University of California-Santa Barbara.}} Herrmann used large sections of his score for the inaugural broadcast of ''The Campbell Playhouse'', an adaptation of ''[[Rebecca (novel)|Rebecca]]'', for the feature film ''[[Jane Eyre (1943 film)|Jane Eyre]]'' (1943), the third film in which Welles starred.{{sfn|Callow|1995|page=422}}

When Welles gained his [[RKO Pictures]] contract, Herrmann worked for him. He wrote his first film score for ''[[Citizen Kane]]'' (1941) and received an [[14th Academy Awards|Academy Award nomination]] for Best Score of a Dramatic Picture. The aria from the fictional opera ''Salammbo'', which Kane's wife Susan Alexander ([[Dorothy Comingore]]) performs, was also composed by Herrmann. Welles wanted Herrmann to do a pastiche of real operas, writing in a telegram "Here is a chance for you to do something witty and amusing."{{sfn|Welles|Bogdanovich|1998|page=57}} Herrmann composed the score for Welles's ''[[The Magnificent Ambersons (film)|The Magnificent Ambersons]]'' (1942); like the film, the music was heavily edited by RKO Pictures. When more than half of his score was removed from the soundtrack, Herrmann bitterly severed his ties with the film and promised legal action if his name were not removed from the credits.<ref>Husted, Christopher, liner notes for ''The Magnificent Ambersons: Original 1942 Motion Picture Score'', Preamble (PRCD 1783), Fifth Continent Music Corp. 1990</ref>

Herrmann was music director for Welles's CBS radio series ''[[The Orson Welles Show (radio series)|The Orson Welles Show]]'' (1941–1942), which included the debut of his wife [[Lucille Fletcher]]'s suspense classic ''[[The Hitch-Hiker (radio play)|The Hitch-Hiker]]''; ''[[Ceiling Unlimited]]'' (1942), a program conceived to glorify the aviation industry and dramatize its role in [[World War II]]; and ''[[Mercury Theatre#The Mercury Summer Theatre of the Air (1946)|The Mercury Summer Theatre on the Air]]'' (1946).<ref>[http://folk.uib.no/smkgg/midi/soundtrackweb/herrmann/m_rad_ad.html Radio Music], The Bernard Herrmann Web Pages; retrieved 17 June 2012.</ref> "Benny Herrmann was an intimate member of the family", Welles told filmmaker [[Peter Bogdanovich]].{{sfn|Welles|Bogdanovich|1998|page=56}} Between the films by Welles, he wrote the score for [[William Dieterle]]'s [[The Devil and Daniel Webster (film) |''The Devil and Daniel Webster'']] (1941), for which he won his only [[Academy Awards|Academy Award]].<ref name=Oscar/>

Herrmann was among those who rebutted the charges [[Pauline Kael]] made in her 1971 essay "[[Raising Kane]]", in which she revived controversy over the authorship of the [[Screenplay for Citizen Kane|screenplay for ''Citizen Kane'']] and denigrated Welles's contributions.<ref>{{Cite magazine|last=Gilling |first=Ted |date=Spring 1972 |title=[Interview with George Coulouris and Bernard Herrmann on] ''The Citizen Kane Book''|magazine=[[Sight & Sound]] |pages=71–73}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.wellesnet.com/?p=176 |title=Bernard Herrmann on working with Orson Welles and Citizen Kane |website=Wellesnet.com |date=June 24, 2007 |access-date=18 March 2017}}</ref>