About This Song
About "Aria from Salammbo (From "Citizen Kane")" by Charles Gerhardt
Bernard Herrmann's aria for Citizen Kane drifts like a snow globe shaken—Gerhardt rendering Salammbo's exotic melancholy with icy precision. The flute's line is a lonely ornament in a cavernous hall, opulence curdling into isolation. Beauty here is a trap, serene and suffocating.