DESCRIPTION:
Featuring:

Suite 1: Chapter Title/Brooding/End Of The World/Else Comforted/To Commercial #1

Suite 2: Seashore/Cellar/To Commercial #2

Suite 3: Else's Despondence/To Commercial #3/Photo/Start Of Something/Detectives/End Title

Liner Notes:

Herrmann composed far more episodes of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour than any other single TV series he worked on - in part because he was working with friends who appreciated his efforts, but also because feature-film work was drying up for him during the 1963-65 period.

"Change Of Address" may have had special resonance because it's about a middle-aged man (Arthur Kennedy) whose wife (Phyllis Thaxter) is threatening to leave him as he tries to recapture his lost youth. (Herrmann's own second wife, Lucy, had left him earlier in the year and, according to friends, he suffered the loss keenly.) Scored for 20 strings, oboe, harp and two horns, it is infused with sorrow from the opening passage, set against the California surf. Under the forlorn wife's dialogue ("that sound...the sea, it's so mournful, so lost and lonely - like death"), it is briefly reminiscent of the sea music in Herrmann's The Ghost And Mrs. Muir. Even when he murders her, a briefly upbeat moment in waltz time reflects his newfound freedom - but it doesn't last long.

Episode Info:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0394027/