A Centennial Tribute To Elmer Bernstein
From the Film Music Review (FMR)
http://www.americanmusicpreservation.com/ElmerBernstein100.htm […]
Resources
Articles
Elmer Bernstein’s 100th Birthday
https://www.lukaskendall.com/post/elmer-bernstein-s-100th-birthday […]
A Century of Elmer Bernstein
http://www.americanmusicpreservation.com/ElmerBernsteinSV.htm […]
A Centennial Tribute
http://www.americanmusicpreservation.com/ElmerBernsteinSAK.htm […]
Concert Review: The Best of Elmer Bernstein
Peter Bernstein conducted the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra on June 18th.
The audience was a mix of film-music enthusiasts and music lovers, and the evening’s program included well-known and not so well-known Bernstein scores […]
Elmer Bernstein Music in Concert
Dublin, London events slated for June 14 and 18
http://filmmusicsociety.org/news_events/features/2017/060617.html
Ukip’s use of Great Escape theme tune grates with composer’s sons
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/may/28/great-escape-theme-tune-ukip-composer?CMP=share_btn_fb […]
50th anniversary of “To Kill a Mockingbird”
Elmer Bernstein's great film score
http://www.americanmusicpreservation.com/ToKillAMockingbird.htm […]
My Decade with Elmer Bernstein
http://www.bearmccreary.com/#blog/blog/other/my-decade-with-elmer-bernstein-3/ […]
Elmer Bernstein’s 90th Anniversary
A Cinematic Sound Radio Tribute
http://www.cinematicsound.net/elmer-bernsteins-90th-anniversary/ […]
Excerpt from “The Elmer Bernstein Collection”
Introduction
In a perfect cinematic world, film composers create great melodies, enhance emotions with poignant underscore, highlight action with unforgettable rhythmic drive, and pen songs that stand the test of time. Success in any of these elements ensures a good score, but one composer did it all and made it look easy: Elmer Bernstein. Bernstein (1922-2004) […]
Elmer’s Tune
Bernstein reminisces at recent ASMAC lunch
“A good line will always win.” The speaker was Elmer Bernstein, and he was talking about the value of melody. And because he was speaking to a crowd of musicians, they knew his reference to “a good line” meant a melodic line. Bernstein spoke recently at a meeting of the American Society of Music Arrangers […]
Score!
Original movie music returns to spotlight as Oscar recognizes today's best film composers
The big chill is thawing in the film world, where for the first time in decades, directors are focusing on original music rather than compilations of often overexposed pop songs. Todd Haynes has now remade this feature, or one could say he uses it as a jumping off point to express the real concerns of […]
Sing With Us: Da-da-da-DAH-da . . .
It’s hard to avoid the music of Elmer Bernstein. Since his first film score for Saturday’s Hero in 1951, Bernstein has had an astonishingly prolific career, composing for films as diverse as The Magnificent Seven in 1960, Ghostbusters in 1984, and Far From Heaven in 2002. His music also pops in the fanfare that has signaled the beginning of National Geographic Television programs […]
Bernstein, actors from 1962 film regale L.B. crowd
LONG BEACH—As composer Elmer Bernstein wrote the score for the movie “To Kill a Mockingbird,’ he struggled with its many issues until he got to the heart of it. “Once I got the (idea) that all of these things were seen through the eyes of children, it got a little easier,’ Bernstein told a crowd […]