Works by Elmer Bernstein and Alex North hold their own with "Scheherazade" in the "Hollywood Goes Orchestral" program
Attaching a “Hollywood Goes Orchestral” tag to Tuesday’s concert by the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra might be accurate, but it was also misleading. In a program in which Elmer Bernstein’s engaging Concerto for Guitar and Orchestra–written for the evening’s featured soloist, Christopher Parkening–had its Los Angeles premiere, and a suite from Alex North’s “Cleopatra” score had […]
Between 1960-61, Elmer Bernstein scored From the Terrace, wrote the Emmy Award-winning music for the documentary Making of the President: 1960, the westerns The Magnificent Seven and The Comancheros, and penned Tennessee Williams’ emotional ringer Summer and Smoke. (Happily, each of these scores has been commercially released at one time or another, although the Making […]
Q&A With Elmer Bernstein, Director Todd Haynes, and Composer Cynthia Millar Takes Place at the Conclusion of Film
“Far From Heaven,” featuring a score by Elmer Bernstein, has been chosen as the closing film of the 3rd Annual Woodstock Film Festival and will feature a Q&A following the screening Sunday, September 22. Director Todd Haynes will share the dais with Bernstein and protégé Cynthia Millar, who played piano in the score. […]
In their own inimitable style, they have drowned out rival supporters with their rousing rendiditons of Rule Britannia, the National Anthem and the theme from The Great Escape. […]
“An interviewer once asked me to discuss my collaboration with Elmer Bernstein, and precisely why I chose to work with him. My first thought was: how could I not work with Elmer, when I had the chance? Simply put, he’s the best there is – the very best.” Martin Scorsese, director The maestro strides quickly […]
Academy Award-winning composer Elmer Bernstein and Fleetwood Mac Founder and drummer Mick Fleetwood were honored for lifetime achievement at this year’s Emerging Artists and Technology in Music (EATM) conference. On hand for panels and discussions at the conference that ran May 29–31 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, were Ark 21 Records CEO Miles […]
Last Thursday the El Circulo Theatre shined, as in its better days, with a full house. It was not the habitual concert crowd. Without a doubt, how comforting it was to listen to the untimed applause in an overflowing theatre.
The program introduced Concerto for Guitar and Orchestra by Elmer Bernstein accompanied by the Orquesta Sinfonica Provincial de Rosario with Sergio Puccini as guitar soloist. Read the entire review…
May 9, 2002 Rosario Symphony Orchestra Juan Rodríguez, Conductor Sergio Puccini, Guitar Last Thursday the El Circulo Theatre shined, as in its better days, with a full house. It was not the habitual concert crowd. Without a doubt, how comforting it was to listen to the untimed applause in an overflowing theatre. The program introduced […]
ELMER BERNSTEIN PROGRAM Glasgow — May 10, 2002 Hallelujah Trail Overture 5:00 Bernstein Suites from Films Summer and Smoke 12:00 Bernstein The Grifters 8:00 Bernstein Kings of the Sun 6:00 Bernstein The Great Escape 10:00 Bernstein —Intermission— Waltzes from Films 14:00 Bernstein The Age of Innocence Incredible Sarah Summer and Smoke From the Terrace Thoroughly […]
Michael Tumelty | The Glasgow Herald Elmer Bernstein, composer of some of the greatest epic film scores, conducts his own 80th birthday concert in Glasgow… Almost exactly 50 years ago Elmer Bernstein was unemployable; frozen out of Hollywood for allegedly un-American activities. Today, a month after his 80th birthday, he is being feted as one […]
Elmer Bernstein, composer of some of the greatest epic film scores, conducts his own 80th birthday concert in Glasgow...
Almost exactly 50 years ago Elmer Bernstein was unemployable; frozen out of Hollywood for allegedly un-American activities. Today, a month after his 80th birthday, he is being feted as one of the great movie composers, with over 150 soundtracks to his name, including an elite handful of iconic film scores – “The Magnificent Seven” and […]
Bernstein to Conduct Concert of Films Scores from Past 50 Years
The Royal Scottish National Orchestra has invited Elmer Bernstein to return to Glasgow on May 10th to perform at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall in honor of his 80th birthday. “The RSNO and Elmer Bernstein have a long-standing relationship. We last performed together to celebrate his 75th Birthday, both in Glasgow and London back in […]
There have been great artists and countless stars cross the stage of the Royal Concert Hall in Glasgow, but there has not been a hero like Elmer Bernstein. Nobody has received the rapturous reception that greeted the 80-year-old composer at the end of a barnstorming version of the theme to “The Magnificent Seven,” with which […]