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This extraordinary 1956 musical radio production of Huxley1s masterpiece attracted a suitably stellar cast of performers including the author himself in the role of narrator and the great film composer Bernard Hermann. A titan of cinema now remembered for such undisputed masterpieces as Citizen Kane, Psycho and Taxi Driver. Here, his palette was necessarily constrained by budgetary considerations, but he nevertheless deployed his slender resources - organ and percussion instruments - with typical ingenuity. In the first part of the program we hear eight cues of Bernard Herrmann1s original score followed by the original radio production in it1s entirety with Herrmann1s music as broadcast by the CBS Radio Workshop in January and February 1956. El Records.