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Elmer Bernstein
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Elmer Bernstein was an American composer, conductor, music educator, and painter. Born in New York City on April 4, 1922, he died of cancer in Ojai on August 18, 2004. He served in World War II and later worked as an employee at the University of Southern California. Bernstein was a member of the Juilliard School, New York University, and the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.
His musical output includes works such as *The Magnificent Seven* and *The Great Escape March*. He received a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score and an Academy Award for Best Original Score. Additionally, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song and the Tony Award for Best Original Score. Bernstein also received a Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Musical Score and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 10
Top works
- Elmer Bernstein
- How now, Dow Jones
- Magnificent Seven
- Elmer Bernstein Collection (Songbook)
- The Great Escape March
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Film & TV
Sound · New York City, New York, USA
Elmer Bernstein (April 4, 1922 – August 18, 2004) was an American composer and conductor best known for his many film scores. In a career which spanned fifty years, he composed music for hundreds of film and television productions. His most popular works include the scores to The Magnificent Seven, The Ten Commandments, The Great Escape, To Kill a Mockingbird, Ghostbusters, The Black Cauldron,…
Known for
- The Making of 'Cape Fear' — Self2001
- Guns for Hire: The Making of 'The Magnificent Seven' — Self2000
- Frank Sinatra Memorial — Self2000
- Making 'Taxi Driver' — Self1999
- Fearful Symmetry — Self1998
- The Yearbook: An Animal House Reunion — Self - Composer1998
- The Hollywood Soundtrack Story — Self1995
- The Bible According to Hollywood — Self1994
- Innocence and Experience: The Making of 'The Age of Innocence' — Self1993
- Music for the Movies: Bernard Herrmann — Self1992
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1922
- Active to
- 2004
Discography
Member of
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 235,381
- Total plays
- 1,697,492
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Elmer Bernstein (April 4, 1922 – August 18, 2004) was an American composer and conductor who is best known for his film scores. In a career that spanned more than five decades, he composed "some of the most recognizable and memorable themes in Hollywood history", including over 150 original movie scores, as well as scores for nearly 80 television productions. Examples of his widely popular and critically acclaimed works are scores to The Magnificent Seven <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Elmer
Academic profile · OpenAlex
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- 1
- Cited by
- 0
Most cited works
- The Wishing Doll1966 · 0 cit
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge
· 2015 · cited 30,538x
- Model-based Analysis of ChIP-Seq (MACS)
· 2008 · cited 17,874x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,997x
- Comprehensive Mapping of Long-Range Interactions Reveals Folding Principles of the Human Genome
· 2009 · cited 8,506x
- Additive manufacturing of metallic components – Process, structure and properties
· 2018 · cited 8,138x
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1922-04-04 ) April 4, 1922, New York City , United States
- Died
- August 18, 2004 (2004-08-18) (aged 82), Ojai, California , United States
- Genres
- Film scores , crime jazz
- Occupations
- Composer conductor songwriter
- Instrument
- Keyboards
- Years active
- 1951–2004
- Spouses
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Encyclopedic overview
Elmer Bernstein (/ˈbɜːrnstiːn/ BURN-steen; April 4, 1922 – August 18, 2004) was an American composer and conductor. In a career that spanned over five decades, he composed "some of the most recognizable and memorable themes in Hollywood history", including over 150 original film scores, as well as scores for nearly 80 television productions. For his work, he received an Academy Award for Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967) and a Primetime Emmy Award. He also received seven Golden Globe Awards, five Grammy Awards, and two Tony Award nominations.
Bernstein composed and arranged over 100 film scores, 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 Left Foot (1989), The Grifters (1990), Cape Fear (1991), Twilight (1998), and Far from Heaven (2002). He is known for his work on the comedic films Animal House (1978), Meatballs (1979), Airplane! (1980), The Blues Brothers (1980), Stripes (1981), Heavy Metal (1981), Trading Places (1983), Ghostbusters (1984), Spies Like Us (1985), and Three Amigos (1986).
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