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2003–4 Archive: 10.29.04 Elmer Bernstein Tribute to a dearly loved composer  More than 300 friends, family members and colleagues celebrated the
life and career of composer Elmer Bernstein at a memorial service
Wednesday night on the Paramount Pictures lot in Hollywood.
Bernstein, the Oscar- and Emmy-winning composer of such classic film scores as To Kill a Mockingbird, The Magnificent Seven and The Great Escape, died Aug. 18 after a long illness. He was 82. The esteem in which he was held, and the affection felt for him, was indicated not only by the speakers but by the crowd of high-profile composers, lyricists, musicians, directors and other members of the Hollywood community in attendance. Read the full article by Jon Burlingame... 2004 Recording Academy Membership Awards Luncheon Tuesday, June 8, at the Beverly Hills Hotel In celebration of this historic occasion, the Los Angeles Chapter of NARAS has honored with its Governors Award: Elmer Bernstein, legendary Academy Award winning film composer; Earth, Wind & Fire, six-time GRAMMY Award winning R&B group; and Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis, three-time GRAMMY Award winning producers. For event information, please visit www.grammy.com/losangeles.aspx. 12.18.03 Back By Popular Demand... Elmer Bernstein to Return as Guest Conductor for Walnut High School's "The Magic of Movies & Music" Walnut, California, April 13, 2004—Film composer Elmer Bernstein will be returning to Walnut High School for its annual "The Magic of Movies & Music" concert at the Walnut Performing Arts Center. The program has been rescheduled to the school's fall season. The exact date will be announced shortly. 2004 will mark the sixth year that Mr. Bernstein has conducted the music students from Walnut High School, which has a special magnet-school music program under the direction of Dr. Buddy Clements. Dr. Clements, a former composition student of Mr. Bernstein's at USC's Thorton School of Music in the mid 1980s, had asked the Maestro at that time if he would consider conducting a high-school orchestra when his students were ready. Ten years later, Bernstein made his first guest appearance as conductor for Clements' student orchestra. The program varies each year. The 2004 movie themes will again include a diverse group of Bernstein's seminal scores, including: "Theme from Hawaii," "Five Waltzes from Bernstein Films," and the perennial favorite, "The Magnificent Seven." Fall Program – 2004 7:30pm Walnut High Performing Arts Center Tickets: $8 Adults | $6 Students/Seniors For more information, call: (909) 594-2263. 2004 Recording Academy Membership Awards Luncheon Tuesday, June 8, at the Beverly Hills Hotel In celebration of this historic occasion, the Los Angeles Chapter of NARAS has honored with its Governors Award: Elmer Bernstein, legendary Academy Award winning film composer; Earth, Wind & Fire, six-time GRAMMY Award winning R&B group; and Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis, three-time GRAMMY Award winning producers. For event information, please visit www.grammy.com/losangeles.aspx. 12.18.03 Back By Popular Demand... Elmer Bernstein to Return as Guest Conductor for Walnut High School's "The Magic of Movies & Music" Walnut, California, April 13, 2004—Film composer Elmer Bernstein will be returning to Walnut High School for its annual "The Magic of Movies & Music" concert at the Walnut Performing Arts Center. The program has been rescheduled to the school's fall season. The exact date will be announced shortly. 2004 will mark the sixth year that Mr. Bernstein has conducted the music students from Walnut High School, which has a special magnet-school music program under the direction of Dr. Buddy Clements. Dr. Clements, a former composition student of Mr. Bernstein's at USC's Thorton School of Music in the mid 1980s, had asked the Maestro at that time if he would consider conducting a high-school orchestra when his students were ready. Ten years later, Bernstein made his first guest appearance as conductor for Clements' student orchestra. The program varies each year. The 2004 movie themes will again include a diverse group of Bernstein's seminal scores, including: "Theme from Hawaii," "Five Waltzes from Bernstein Films," and the perennial favorite, "The Magnificent Seven." Fall Program – 2004 7:30pm Walnut High Performing Arts Center Tickets: $8 Adults | $6 Students/Seniors For more information, call: (909) 594-2263. 10.25.03 Elmer Bernstein at Walt Disney Concert Hall On the third and final night of the inaugural concert gala heralding the Walt Disney Concert Hall as the new home of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the program was "Soundstage L.A.," a stunning celebration of the distinguished history of music for motion pictures. Of course, Elmer Bernstein was in attendance. It was after the intermission that the audience of 2,200 was treated to the famed The Magnificent Seven theme, as conducted by fellow maestro John Williams. Then, as one of two encores conducted by the L.A. Philharmonic's own Esa-Pekka Salonen, the touching and melodic To Kill a Mockingbird was met with a standing ovation. A thrilled Mr. Bernstein later commented that it was the best performance of Mockingbird he had ever heard. 09.21.03 Elmer Bernstein Presents Best Film Score Award Named in his Honor at The 2003 Woodstock Film Festival The Elmer Bernstein award for Best Film Score was presented by the maestro to "Love Object" composer Nicholas Pike as part of the festival's closing evening festivities. This marked the third year Mr. Bernstein has been present to award the prize to a promising composer. The 2003 Woodstock Film Festival celebrated its fourth year with a collection of more than 130 films, panels and workshops, Wednesday, September 17 through Sunday, September 21. Screenings and events took place this year in a variety of venues in the town of Woodstock and nearby communities of Rhinebeck, Hunter and Mt. Tremper. Although only four years old, the Woodstock Film Festival has garnered a reputation among filmmakers and industry insiders as one of the best regional festivals in the country. The expansion of programs and venues is a direct result of the festival's successful track record over the past three years, according to festival director Meira Blaustein. Elmer Bernstein and Bruce Broughton Elected to ASCAP Writer Board Elections Give Film and Television Composers Unprecedented Representation on ASCAP Board LOS ANGELES (Film Music Magazine)—ASCAP announced today [March 20, 2003] that film and television composers Elmer Bernstein and Bruce Broughton have been elected to the ASCAP Board of Directors. With the election of these composers, the ASCAP Board now includes two full time working film and television composers, a level of representation not seen in many years. 06.27.03 Fourth Annual Young Film Composers Competition Winners Announced LOS ANGELES—Film Music Magazine today announced the five winners chosen for the Fourth Annual Young Film Composers Competition. The competition is presented by Turner Classic Movies, Film Music Magazine, Ascent Media and Tonos.com, and is sponsored by The Guitar Center. The grand prize for the competition is $10,000 and the opportunity to score a restored classic silent film with the score recorded in Los Angeles by a top studio orchestra. The first and second place winners receive music gear prizes from The Guitar Center, and the third and fourth place winners receive the Music for the Media distance learning course courtesy of Music for Television (UK) and The Film Music Institute. Judges for the first round of finalists included competition spokesperson and film composer Elmer Bernstein, and noted film composers Mark Watters and Mark Holden. Judges for the finalist selection included composer/educator and judging chairman Don Ray, film and television composers John Ottman, Marco Beltrami, Mark Holden and Vivek Maddala, music publishing consultant Laura Levinsky, film and television music agent Jeff Kaufman, Lon Bender and Craig Harris from Ascent Media, and Charlie Tabesh and Dennis Millay from Turner Classic Movies. The winners for this year's competition are:
FIRST PLACE WINNER – Michael Picton, Brooklyn, NY SECOND PLACE WINNER – Darrell Raby, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA THIRD PLACE WINNER – Matt Mariano, Canoga Park, CA FOURTH PLACE WINNER – Antonio DeFeo, Pelham Manor, NY Hawaii—The Deluxe Edition CD Now Available One of Elmer Bernstein's most lush, melodic scores is now a 2-CD deluxe edition: CD One features almost the entire score in mono, and CD Two features the original soundtrack, in its entirety, in stereo. Expanded liner notes and story synopsis of this epic saga, adapted from James A. Michener's historical novel, are included with the CDs. A special-edition, autographed version will be available for a limited time. For more information or to purchase the CD online, please visit the Merchandise Section. Elmer Bernstein Receives Fourteenth Academy Award® Nomination for "Far From Heaven" Elmer Bernstein has been nominated for his fourteenth Academy Award® for his critically acclaimed score for "Far From Heaven." He heard the news from his oldest son, who informed him that he has the distinction of being the only person to be nominated in six consecutive decades. "Does that mean I've been around for awhile?" he queried. "I'm thrilled to be in such heady company." The film also received nominations for Best Actress in a Leading Role (Julianne Moore), Best Original Screenplay (Todd Haynes) and Best Cinematography (Edward Lachman).  Read the accolades...
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Elmer Bernstein Scores "Far From Heaven" "Far From Heaven," featuring a score by Elmer Bernstein, opened in the US November 8th. The film stars Julianne Moore, Dennis Quaid and Dennis Haysbert and co-stars Patricia Clarkson. It is set in the 1950s and depicts the beautiful, yet oppressive surfaces of middle-class, mid-century America. The film is reminiscent of the films of Douglas Sirk, a popular director during that era, whose films were renowned for their rich look and empathetic characters, particularly women. "More than anything, 'Far From Heaven' is a film about love," states Bernstein. "It is a film about love within the conventional mores of the fifties. While it was Todd Haynes' idea to treat this film to look like fifties film, he also took the opportunity to deal with issues that were taboo in the fifties. Issues like homosexuality and racism were always lurking just below the surface, but in this film those issues are met head on. The score is about love and frustration." Elmer Bernstein Chosen as Spokesperson for TCM's 2003 Young Film Composers Competition TCM and LACMA to Premiere Newly Scored Version of Lon Chaney's Laugh Clown, Laugh (1928) on Jan. 30 in LACMA's Bing Theatre  Turner Classic Movies and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art celebrate classic film and the impact of movie music by bringing cinephiles a unique public viewing of one of Lon Chaney’s great performances as Tito Beppi in LAUGH, CLOWN, LAUGH (1929) on Thursday, Jan. 30, at 7:30 p.m. The silent film has not been seen in public for decades because its original score was lost, but thanks to TCM’s annual Young Film Composers Competition, it has received a new score and a new life. The Jan. 30 screening will be the first and only public presentation of the film with its new score before it premieres on TCM Feb. 25 at 10 p.m. ET/7 p.m. PT.
H. Scott Salinas, winner of the third annual competition, spent months creating 74 minutes of new music for the film before recording the score with a live orchestra at Todd AO’s Radford scoring stage in Los Angeles last November. Salinas, a graduate of Berklee College of Music, was chosen as the 2002 grand prizewinner by a blue ribbon panel of judges, headed by Don Davis (The Matrix, Jurassic Park 3, Behind Enemy Lines), which included industry executives such as Academy Award-winning® sound supervisor/designer (Braveheart) Lon Bender, president of Liberty Livewire Audio. In 2003, Oscar®-winning composer Elmer Bernstein will be the spokesperson for the competition and will participate on the judging panel. He will not only help select the 2003 winner, but will also mentor the winner, sharing his 50+ years of experience as a film composer with the lucky composer. His score for the current release Far From Heaven has earned the composer rave reviews and a number of honors, including Best Film Score by the Los Angeles and Chicago Film Critics Associations. He was also recently awarded the 2002 National Board of Review's Career Achievement Award. Sponsored by TCM, Film Music magazine, the Guitar Center, Todd-AO, Tonos Entertainment and America Online, Inc., the Young Film Composers Competition offers contestants the rare opportunity to compose and record a musical score for a silent film in the TCM library. Applications to enter the Fourth Annual Young Film Composers Competition will be available at http://turnerclassicmovies.com/YFCC beginning Feb. 1. Turner Classic Movies, currently seen in more than 63.4 million homes, is a 24-hour cable network from Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., an AOL Time Warner company. TCM presents the greatest motion pictures of all time from the largest film library in the world, the combined Time Warner and Turner film libraries, from the ‘20s through the ‘80s, commercial-free and without interruption. For more information, please visit the TCM Web Site. 01.28.03 Back By Popular Demand... Elmer Bernstein Returns as Guest Conductor for Walnut High School's "The Magic of Movies & Music" Walnut, California, January 28, 2003—Film composer Elmer Bernstein returned to Walnut High School for their annual "The Magic of Movies & Music" concert at the Walnut Performing Arts Center on Thursday, February 13th, at 7:00 PM. This year marks the fifth year that Mr. Bernstein has conducted the music students from Walnut High School, which has a special magnet-school music program under the direction of Buddy Clements. Dr. Clements, a former composition student of Mr. Bernstein's at USC's Thorton School of Music in the mid 1980s, had asked the Maestro at that time if he would consider conducting a high-school orchestra when his students were ready. Ten years later, Bernstein made his first guest appearance as conductor for Clements' student orchestra. The program varies each year. The 2003 movie themes included a diverse group of Bernstein's seminal scores, including: "Far From Heaven" (2002 winner for Best Film Score: Los Angeles Film Critics Association, Chicago Film Critics Association, Seattle Film Critics, Online Film Critics Association), "Kings of the Sun," "Glorious Hill Waltz from "Summer and Smoke," "Ghostbusters," and the perennial favorite, "The Magnificent Seven." Elmer Bernstein Honored by the Sarasota Film Festival and Florida West Coast Symphony "CineSymphony!," An Evening of Film & Music, Featured Bernstein Scores Conducted by the Maestro  The Florida West Coast Symphony and the Sarasota Film Festival celebrated the first-time collaboration of CineSymphony!" a multimedia performance event featuring renowned film composer Elmer Bernstein. The one-time event was held January 25, 2003, at the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall in Sarasota, and was a fundraiser for both organizations.
Elmer Bernstein led the full symphony orchestra in a retrospective of the following critically acclaimed film scores: The Sons of Katie Elder; Hawaii; To Kill a Mockingbird; The Great Escape; The Ten Commandments, Kings of the Sun; The Age of Innocence; The Incredible Sarah; Summer and Smoke; From the Terrace; Thoroughly Modern Millie; The Man with the Golden Arm; Walk on the Wild Side; The Magnificent Seven, and the recently-released Far From Heaven, starring Julianne Moore and Dennis Quaid. Clips and stills from Mr. Bernstein's films were shown at the concert. "I always try to develop a clear picture for myself of what is at the heart of a film before I start writing," stated the maestro. "For me what this new film, Far From Heaven, is about is people's yearning for love and the emotional comfort than love can provide. This will be only the second time I have performed this suite in concert with a full symphonic orchestra. I hope the audience enjoys the suite as much as I enjoyed writing it," he added. Click here for the complete program. |
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