music composed by BERNARD HERRMANN: WALKING DISTANCE (1959

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"THE TWILIGHT ZONE" is probably the best remembered work from Bernard Herrmann's career in television and easily stands up with his pioneering work on the CBS Radio Workshop and Orson Welles Mercury Theater from the 1930's. Of the 7 scores commisioned to Herrmann for the series, 'Walking Distance" is arguably the finest and best remembered, being episode #5 of the 1st season in 1959. He scored the episode for strings, harp and vibrophones, visualizing the sentimental journey back to the past of Martin Sloane. The beautiful music expresses isolation, yearning and lonlieness, and is semi-autobiographical for Rod Serling; being his favorite script of the series! The wonderful "ELEGY" at the finish with the childrens merry-go round displays the sadness of Martin, craving to stay and re-live the past where he grew up, but realizing it is only a dream of all men. As the episode concludes with the OPENING motiff, Martin drives back to N.Y., this time hoping to find some brighness he misses currently, instead of looking to the past for fullfilment. The Twilight Zone END TITLE music (and beginning) was writen by Herrmann but used for only the first season, being replaced with the now recognizable 'COMMERCIAL' theme of Maurice Constant. Herrmann's music was much more insightfully deep, if not energetic, giving us a sense of psychological danger, fear and anxiety as to what mysterious encounters we may find in the deep recesses of our MIND, (which is what the series was really all about) and not unfamiliar to this 'great' film music composer.

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