Elmer Bernstein

Genres:	Action & Adventure • Comedy • Documentaries • Drama • Horror • Kids & Family • Musicals & The Arts • Mystery / Thriller • Pop / Rock • Sci-Fi / Fantasy • Soundtracks • Television • War • Westerns
Descriptive "tags":	soundtrack • composer • instrumental • classical • score
Decades Active:	1950s • 1980s • 1990s • 2000s
Links online:	BBC Music • Fan Page • Ibdb • IMDb • Official Homepage • Wikipedia

Biography

4 April 1922, New York City, New York, USA, d. 18 August 2004, Ojai, California, USA. An important and prolific arranger/conductor and composer of over 200 film scores. Bernstein was hailed as a ‘musical genius’ in the classical field at the age of 12. Despite being a talented actor, dancer and painter, he devoted himself to becoming a concert pianist and toured nationally while still in his teens. His education at New York University was interrupted when he joined the United States Air Force during World War II. Throughout his four-year service stint he composed and conducted music for propaganda programmes, and produced musical therapy projects for operationally fatigued personnel. After the war he attended the Juilliard School of Music and studied composition with the distinguished composer, Roger Sessions.

Bernstein moved to Hollywood and started writing film scores in 1950, debuting the following year with Saturday’s Hero....

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