Valentine's Day, Sunday, February 14, 2010 at 10:20 am

session but almost always left behind his radio and television scores. The same applies tothe 15 pages of “A Man’s Mother” episode.Now: “Two Years Before the Mast” is different. Cue I (16 pages) is in Murray’shandwriting I believe (but not in the usual “Lyn Murray” marked score paper. Cue II is inthat newer type paper with the name monogram at the bottom. Herrmann’s hand for thiscue (it looks like to me) with Herrmann adding 2 muted trumpets and 1 muted trombone.Cue III-IV (same page) is clearly Herrmann’s handwriting, and so is cue V (“Fag”designation instead of Bassoon, etc.). Murray normally writes “Bn” in hisinstrumentation. Indeed the rest of the 35 page score is in Herrmann’s handwriting(although on “Lyn Murray” score paper). So I can certainly understand how thisparticular episode score got into the Lyn Murray Collection. The other two scores, asindicated earlier, were not written on “Lyn Murray” blank score paper (20 staves). Ibelieve Murray himself in his diary-based book MUSICIAN stated that Herrmann helpedhim out with deadlines. Also I forgot to note that at the end of the episode, the announcerstates that the music was composed by Lyn Murray and Bernard Herrmann. At the end of“A Man’s Mother,” the announcer stated the music was composed and conducted byBernard Herrmann (the same for “A Breath of Air”). I would love to have the audio of allof those Hallmark Playhouse episodes in that specific period but they are not available.The same applies for the written music available in the Lyn Murray Papers but I cannotafford to be spending a lot of money blindly on music looking for Herrmann. The first 99pages xeroxed or scanned are 60 cents (after that, more). So it cost me back in earlyNovember $56.40 for the scan disk.I’ve been trying to find “The Big Kidnapping” or simply “The Kidnapping”episode of the color Dragnet tv series (first season) that Murray composed. That music isterrific but unfortunately the records do not indicate episode titles so it would be hit &miss if I order various scores. I did have them scan some isolated pages in my Herrmannorder. One sketch page is the opening title page called “3 Murders” M-101, andapparently 26503 is the Production number of that episode. I’ll have to investigate whatepisodes involved three murders. I believe it is in the second season, and the kidnappingepisode I want is in the first season. In that cue I just mentioned, Murray had 10 violins, 4flutes, 4 clarinets, 3 horns, 3 trombones, tuba, bass guitar and 2 percussion. He usedPacific Music Papers # 372. Another page is the Dragnet March sketch referencingSchumann. Another page is the piano version of Walter Schumann’s “Danger Ahead.”“A Man’s Mother” had several examples of self-borrowing. The very first cue of“Mother’s Day” was later used as the “Miss Suzie” theme in The Kentuckian about fouryears later. But about six years earlier I’ve seen that very same theme in sketch # 46 inBox 109 at UCSB. Cue IX (start of the Second Act) was later used as the delightfulFlirtation cue in Beneath the 12 Mile Reef. He used a flute, oboe, 2 clarinets, 2 horns,triangle, celeste, harp. 4 violins, viola(s), VC/CB.I believe the pre-statement passage inend cue XVI of the “A Breath of Air” episode (Herrmann annotated at “May 3/51”) islater used in Snows of Kilimanjaro. I’ll have to go over that very boring movie to verify!Of the bunch I liked “Two Years Before the Mast” the best. He had a terrific bravadotheme used twice. Once is at 10:40 thru 10:47 just before the narrator states “Sept 26,11