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Bernstein, Elmer

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Elmer Bernstein (April 4, 1922 – August 18, 2004) was an American composer and conductor of film scores.

Bernstein composed music for hundreds of film and television productions over the course of 50 years. His most popular scores were for The Magnificent Seven, The Ten Commandments, The Great Escape, To Kill a Mockingbird, Ghostbusters, The Black Cauldron, Airplane!, The Rookies, Cape Fear, and Animal House. Bernstein won an Oscar for his score to Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967) and was nominated for fourteen Oscars in total. He also won two Golden Globes and was nominated for two Grammy Awards.

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Elmer Bernstein. Wikipedia. Accessed 23 November 2016. [b. April 4, 1922; d. August 18, 2004; American composer and conductor of film scores; 50-year career; composed music for hundreds of film and television productions; most popular works The Magnificent Seven, The Ten Commandments, The Great Escape, To Kill a Mockingbird, Ghostbusters, The Black Cauldron, Airplane!, The Rookies, Cape Fear, and Animal House; won Oscar for Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967) score; was nominated for fourteen Oscars; won two Golden Globes; was nominated for two Grammy Awards]

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Republic Pictures Corporation music archives

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Identifier: MSS 1507
Scope and Contents The Republic Pictures Music Archives is a valuable research tool for the study of music composed and recorded for motion pictures by a studio operating during the 1930s, 40s, and 50s. It is also useful in examining the works at Republic of film composers such as Max Steiner, Elmer Bernstein, Victor Young, Nathan Scott, William Lava, and Mort Glickman. The more than one thousand boxes of piano-conductor scores and parts, together with more than seven thousand recordings comprise a nearly...
Dates: 1935-1959

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