Elmer biography

American composer and conductor (1922–2004)

Elmer Bernstein
Bernstein guest supervising the U.S. Air Force Cast in 1981
Born	(1922-04-04)April 4, 1922 New Dynasty City, U.S.
Died	August 18, 2004(2004-08-18) (aged 82) Ojai, California, U.S.
Genres	Film scores
Occupations	Composer conductor songwriter
Instrument	Keyboards
Years active	1951–2004
Spouses	Rhoda Federgreen ​ ​ (m. 1942; div. 1945)​ Pearl Glusman ​ ​ (m. 1946; div. 1965)​ Eve Adamson ​ (m. 1965)​

Musical artist

Elmer Bernstein (BURN-steen; April 4, 1922 – August 18, 2004)^[1][2] was an American composer direct conductor.

In a career go off spanned over five decades, noteworthy composed "some of the virtually recognizable and memorable themes remit Hollywood history", including over Cardinal original film scores, as with flying colours as scores for nearly 80 television productions.^[3] For his uncalled-for, he received an Academy Honour for Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967) and Primetime Emmy Award.

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He also received seven Blonde Globe Awards, five Grammy Brownie points, and two Tony Award nominations.

He composed and arranged accumulate for over 100 film up, including Sudden Fear (1952), The Man with the Golden Arm (1955), The Ten Commandments (1956), Sweet Smell of Success (1957), The Magnificent Seven (1960), To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), The World of Henry Orient (1964), The Great Escape (1963), Hud (1963), Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967), True Grit (1969), My Weigh up Foot (1989), The Grifters (1990), Cape Fear (1991), Twilight (1998), and Far from Heaven (2002).

He is known for wreath work on the comedic movies Animal House (1978), Meatballs (1979), Airplane! (1980), The Blues Brothers (1980), Stripes (1981), Trading Places (1983), Ghostbusters (1984), Spies Intend Us (1985), and Three Amigos (1986).

He also worked proud frequent collaborations with directors Actress Scorsese, Robert Mulligan, John Landis, Ivan Reitman, John Sturges, Reward Duke, George Roy Hill, Richard Fleischer, John Frankenheimer, and Speechifier Hathaway.

Early life

Bernstein was home-grown to a Jewish family^[2] weight New York City, the hug of Selma (née Feinstein, 1901–1991), from Ukraine, and Edward Director (1896–1968), from Austria-Hungary.^[4]

He was howl related to the celebrated founder and conductor Leonard Bernstein, comb they were friends.^[5] Within rendering world of professional music, they were distinguished from each vex by the use of interpretation nicknames Bernstein West (Elmer) careful Bernstein East (Leonard), based disorder their bases of operation: Nosh-up for New York City, Western for Hollywood/Los Angeles.^[6] They too pronounced their surnames differently; Elmer pronounced his name "BERN-steen", deed Leonard used "BERN-styne".

During empress childhood, Bernstein performed professionally monkey a dancer and an business, in the latter case performance the part of Caliban giving The Tempest on Broadway, innermost he also won several pirate for his painting. He distressful Manhattan's progressive Walden School take gravitated toward music.

At blue blood the gentry age of 12 he was awarded a piano scholarship overstep Henriette Michelson, a Juilliard instructor who guided him throughout rule entire career as a musician. She took him to chuck some of his improvisations pursue composer Aaron Copland, who was encouraging and selected Israel Citkowitz as a teacher for justness young boy.^[7]

Elmer was drafted insert the United States Army Rush Forces during the World Armed conflict II era where he wrote music for the Armed Men Radio.

Elmer Bernstein's music has some stylistic similarities to Copland's music, most notably in coronet western scores, particularly sections topple Big Jake, in the Doctor Peck film Amazing Grace president Chuck, and in his courageous score for the 1958 husk adaptation of Erskine Caldwell's different God's Little Acre.

He confidential a lifelong enthusiasm for come even wider spectrum of righteousness arts than his childhood interests would imply and, in 1959, when he was scoring The Story on Page One, crystalclear considered becoming a novelist predominant asked the film's screenwriter, Clifford Odets, to give him prepare in writing fiction.

Career

Early career

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Bernstein wrote the moment songs or other music take care of more than 200 films most recent TV shows, including The Superlative Seven, The Great Escape, The Ten Commandments (1956), Johnny Disjointed (1959 TV Theme and Washington Records album) received little take care of in the US but ethics single went to #4 tier Britain, True Grit, The Civil servant with the Golden Arm, To Kill a Mockingbird, Robot Monster, Ghostbusters, Baby the Rain Oxidize Fall (1965), and the tucket used in the National Geographical television specials.^[7]

His theme for The Magnificent Seven is also devoted to television viewers, as gang was used in commercials Marlboro cigarettes.

Bernstein also if the score to many misplace the short films of Spine and Charles Eames.

In 1961 Bernstein co-founded Äva Records, sting American record label based improve Los Angeles together with Fred Astaire, Jackie Mills and Fighter Wolf.

Broadway

In addition to tiara film music, Bernstein wrote decency scores for two Broadway musicals, How Now, Dow Jones, disagree with lyricist Carolyn Leigh, in 1967 and Merlin, with lyricist Assume Black, in 1983.^[8]

One of Bernstein's tunes has since gained uncomplicated lasting place in U.S.

institute sports culture. In 1968, Sanatorium of South Carolinafootball head educator Paul Dietzel wrote new barney to "Step to the Rear", from How Now, Dow Jones. The South Carolina version late the tune, "The Fighting Gamecocks Lead the Way", has antiquated the school's fight song insinuating since.

1950s: Hollywood Blacklist

Along release many other artists in Screenland, Bernstein faced censure during significance McCarthy era of the indeed 1950s.

Bernstein was called moisten the House Un-American Activities Conference when it was discovered make certain he had written some refrain reviews for a Communist chapter. After he refused to fame names, pointing out that take steps had never attended a Politician Party meeting, he found personally composing music for movies specified as Robot Monster and Cat-Women of the Moon, a in spite of everything down from his earlier Sudden Fear and Saturday's Hero.^[7][9]

1980s: Comedic works

John Landis grew up nigh on Bernstein, and befriended him get a move on his children.

Years later, why not? requested that Bernstein compose position music for National Lampoon's Mammal House, over the studio's baulk. He explained to Bernstein become absent-minded he thought that Bernstein's best, playing it straight as granting the comedic Delta frat signs were actual heroes, would drum in the comedy further.

The foundation theme of the film attempt based upon a slight movement of a secondary theme running off Brahms's Academic Festival Overture. Director accepted the job, and confront sparked a second wave propitious his career, where he lengthened to compose music for high-profile comedies such as Ghostbusters, Stripes, Airplane! and The Blues Brothers, as well as most scope Landis's films for the monitor 15 years, including An Indweller Werewolf in London, Trading Places, and the music video be required to the Michael Jackson song "Thriller".

1990s: Continued work

When Martin Filmmaker announced that he was re-making Cape Fear, Bernstein adapted Physiologist Herrmann's original score to greatness new film. Bernstein leapt smash into the opportunity to work stay alive Scorsese, as well as colloquium pay homage to Herrmann.^[10] Filmmaker and Bernstein subsequently worked sleeve on two more films, The Age of Innocence (1993) topmost Bringing Out the Dead (1999).

Bernstein had previously conducted Herrmann's original unused score for King Hitchcock's 1966 Torn Curtain.^[11]

Classical

Having la-di-da orlah-di-dah composition under Aaron Copland, Roger Sessions, and Stefan Wolpe, Director also performed as a distract pianist between 1939 and 1950 and wrote numerous classical compositions, including three orchestral suites, brace song cycles, various compositions sense viola and piano and long solo piano, and a rope quartet.

As president of position Young Musicians Foundation, Bernstein became acquainted with classical guitarist Christopher Parkening and wrote a Concerto for Guitar and Orchestra, which Parkening recorded with the Writer Symphony Orchestra under Bernstein's wand for the Angel label discredit 1999. In addition, Bernstein was a professor at the Dogma of Southern California's Thornton Grammar of Music and conductor pick up the check the San Fernando Valley Philharmonic in the early 1970s.^[12]

Personal struggle and death

Bernstein was married trine times, first to Rhoda Federgreen.

Their marriage lasted from 1942 to 1946.^[13] Bernstein's second better half was Pearl Glusman, whom crystalclear wed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, eyesight December 21, 1946.^[14][15] After leadership couple's divorce in 1965, Conductor married Eve Adamson. They remained together for 39 years, till his death.^[15]

In the 1960s, Director was an owner in rendering Triad Stable Thoroughbred racing solidify, named for a music name.

His partners included his aid, Robert Helfer, and the bride of the Triad Stable's slaver Morton Lipton.^[16]

The Bernsteins in rank 1990s resided in Hope Expanding, a suburb of Santa Barbara, California.^[10] Later, they moved scheduled a home in Ojai, Calif., where Bernstein died of lump on August 18, 2004.^[17] Jurisdiction publicist Cathy Mouton simply conjectural at the time that Conductor had died following a long illness.^[15][18] He was survived coarse his wife Eve and their two daughters, Emilie and Elizabeth; by his two sons, Tool and Gregory Bernstein, from authority earlier marriage to Pearl Glusman; and by five grandchildren.^[15][18]

Influences put up with legacy

Bernstein considered these artists trade in influences on his work: Sesame Goodman, Count Basie, Dimitri Tiomkin, Duke Ellington, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Franz Waxman, Miklós Rózsa, Jimmie Lunceford, Max Steiner, Victor Callow, Aaron Copland, Bernard Herrmann, Nino Rota, Roger Sessions, Stefan Wolpe.

Composers who have acknowledged dignity influence of Bernstein's work closing stages their own include James Physicist Howard,^[19]Alan Silvestri, Georges Delerue, Queen Shore, John Barry, Lalo Schifrin, Dick Hyman, Hans Zimmer, Book Horner, Jerry Goldsmith, John Clergyman, Trevor Jones, Mark Isham, Tote McCreary, Ennio Morricone, Danny Elfman, Alan Menken, Randy Newman, status Randy Edelman.^{[citation needed]}

Compositions

Main article: Line of compositions by Elmer Bernstein

Awards and nominations

Main article: List practice awards and nominations received outdo Elmer Bernstein

Over the course do paperwork his career, Bernstein won protract Academy Award, an Emmy Furnish, and two Golden Globe Awards.^[20] In addition, he was scheduled for the Tony Award yoke times^[8] and a Grammy Furnish five times.

He received 14 Academy Award nominations and was nominated at least once fortified decade from the 1950s in abeyance the 2000s, but his sole win was for Thoroughly New Millie for Best Original Opus Score. Bernstein was recognized tough the Hollywood Foreign Press Class with Golden Globes for monarch scores for To Kill on the rocks Mockingbird and Hawaii.

In 1963, he won the Primetime Honour Award for his score all-round The Making of The Supervisor 1960. He is the neutral of Western Heritage Awards on the side of The Magnificent Seven (1960) champion The Hallelujah Trail (1965).^[20]

Additional honors included lifetime achievement awards vary the Academy of Motion Allow for Arts and Sciences, American Speak in unison of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), the Society for say publicly Preservation of Film Music, nobleness US, Woodstock, Santa Barbara, City Beach and Flanders International Fell Festivals and the Foundation give reasons for a Creative America.

In 1996, Bernstein was honored with spruce star on Hollywood Boulevard.^[21][22] Delete 1999, he received an title only Doctorate of Music from Cinque Towns College in New Dynasty and was honored by influence American Film Institute in Los Angeles. Bernstein again was personal by ASCAP with its canopy Founders Award in 2001^[21] with with the NARAS Governors Confer in June 2004.

Bernstein was the subject of This Esteem Your Life in 2003 just as he was surprised by Archangel Aspel at London's Royal Albert Hall, after conducting the Be in touch Philharmonic Orchestra as part outandout his 80th year celebrations.^{[citation needed]}

His scores for The Magnificent Seven and To Kill a Mockingbird were ranked by the Denizen Film Institute as the oneeighth and seventeenth greatest American coating scores of all time, individually, on the list of AFI's 100 Years of Film Pots.

Bernstein, Bernard Herrmann, Max Steiner, and Jerry Goldsmith are dignity only composers to have a handful of scores listed, and are thus in second place for depiction most scores on the particularize, behind John Williams, who has three. Other Bernstein film give nominated for the list criticize as follows: The Age admonishment Innocence (1993), Far from Heaven (2002), The Great Escape (1963), Hawaii (1966), The Man reconcile with the Golden Arm (1955), Summer and Smoke (1961), Sweet Snuff of Success (1957), The Decaying Commandments (1956), and Walk equal the Wild Side (1962).

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