You cannot say you've really lived until you haven't listened to Bernard Herrmann's "Psycho" music in the Milanese church where Verdi once premiered his Requiem (Opera Chic actually has, and you haven't -- and she has the video evidence to prove it).
We now learn from Alex Ross that Maestro Herrmann's widow is selling quite a lot of stuff (Opera Chic prays that Mrs. Herrmann hadn't invested her husband's savings with that ghastly Madoff confidence man the way poor Elie Wiesel did), the manuscript of the glorious "Psycho" score among them.
Opera Chic hopes against hope that Lot 198 at Bonhams (we hope it's no relation to the late unruly Led Zeppelin drummer) will eventually get bought by an American institution, leaving this precious material available to the public -- that Psycho suite is among the post-WWII era most recognizable works of American music, and rightly so.