Amber Records First Release Named Best of the Month
Film Music Review has picked “Elmer Bernstein: Music from the Films of Charles & Ray Eames” as their Best CD of the Month for July.
Film Music Review has picked “Elmer Bernstein: Music from the Films of Charles & Ray Eames” as their Best CD of the Month for July.
Warsaw, Poland. On May 25, 2000, Mr. Bernstein was guest conductor with the Warsaw Sinfonia Varsovia in a concert of his own film compositions. He was joined in two of the jazz-oriented pieces, The Man with the Golden Arm and Walk on the Wild Side, by world-renown trumpeter Chuck Mangione.
Mr. Bernstein is in the process of reviewing the first five releases of his widely acclaimed Film Music Collection for release on Amber Records. The first release, the Bernstein-Eames CD featuring music for the avant-garde films of Charles and Ray Eames, is among a series of Limited Edition compact discs highlighting previously unreleased original scores […]
The following speech was presented by Elmer Bernstein at the third annual film and TV music conference at the Directors Guild of America in March, 1998. The event was hosted by the Hollywood Reporter and the Society of Composers and Lyricists. [A reporter at the time writes, “During his keynote address, Bernstein focused on the threats […]
Portions previously published in Empire Magazine (U.K.), 1992. “The wonderful thing that film music can always do is [to be] not totally explicit, to get behind and inside the characters so to speak,” says Elmer Bernstein, composer for the Martin Scorsese remake of CAPE FEAR. “Curiously enough, I think that the score of CAPE FEAR […]
“It’s one thing to write music that reinforces a film, underscores it—the traditional sense of stressing, underlining—or gives it added dramatic muscle. It’s entirely another to write music that graces a film. That’s what Elmer Bernstein does, and that, for me, is his greatest gift. I don’t mean just talent, either; the music he writes […]
It may surprise some readers to know that the Society of Composers & Lyricists is not the first group of musicians and wordsmiths to organize for the collective good of its membership. In fact, the SCL has two major predecessors one of which was actually a union that, for more than a decade, set minimum […]
“I’m so glad Elmer Bernstein didn’t become a concert pianist! We who worked with him on ‘The Babe’ are glad he chose composing for films instead. I love the music on this album, but I love it even more as it brings so many emotions to the film and enhances so many emotions that are […]
“The music of ‘Men in War’ is the language of the sounds, the thoughts, the sights of men in battle. The stillness of the forest is ever-present, the rustle of a leaf is ear splitting, the pathos and suspense of imminent death pervades the very air, all brought to life through the magic of Mr. […]