WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA—Veteran film composer Elmer Bernstein presented TCM’s 2003 Young Film Composers Competition Grand Prize to Ms. Linda Martinez for her original score for the classic silent film, The Rag Man, at the Harmony Gold Screening Room in West Hollywood on January 29th at 7:00pm.

Mr. Bernstein, who was honored by TCM with a month-long film retrospective in 2001, continues his association with the network and has also accepted the role as spokesperson for the 2004 competition. He was one of the preliminary judges for the first round of finalists in June, 2003. […]