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New York City, NY, United States (1952 – 2004)
Bernstein was born in New York City, NY, United States. During his childhood he performed professionally as a dancer and an actor and won several prizes for his painting. He gravitated toward music by his own choice at the age of twelve, at which time he was given a scholarship in piano by Henriette Michelson, a Juilliard teacher who guided him throughout his entire career as a pianist. She took him to play some of his improvisations for composer Aaron Copland. Copland was encouraging and selected Israel Citkowitz as a teacher for the young boy. Bernstein’s music has some stylistic similarities to Copland’s music, most notably in his western scores and in his spirited score for the 1958 film adaptation of Erskine Caldwell’s novel, God’s Little Acre.
He wrote the theme songs or other music for more than 200 films and TV shows, including The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape, The Ten Commandments (1956), The Man with the Golden Arm, To Kill a Mockingbird, Robot Monster, Ghostbusters and the fanfare used in the National Geographic television specials. His theme for The Magnificent Seven is also familiar to television viewers, as it was used in commercials for Marlboro cigarettes. Bernstein also provided the score to many of the short films of Ray and Charles Eames.
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Prelude (From 'The Ten Commandments')
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Great Composers: Elmer Bernstein
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Biscuit1978
Come along and join the group Orchestral Composer of the Week. Nominate your 5 favourite composers each week and see who gets into the Hall of Fame.
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MarieCardona
Anyone know anywhere I can find Elmer Bernstein's soundtrack to the Powers of Ten?
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serurbanos_3
Far from Heaven...beautiful!
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ninonski
far from heaven so good
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pinkpressthreat
"The Man With the Golden Arm" - great film,great score.
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needleofdeath
Far from heaven <3
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bleakaffinity
The Age of Innocence score is magnificent.
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Cyankali
The Magnificent Seven absolutely great!
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veiledsongbird
One of my favorites!!
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foreverdamned
I haven't seen his work for the film "Frankie Starlight" mentioned here, which I think is a shame - e.g. "Roofdance" and "Moon" are very beautiful and soothing pieces from that film. Everyone should take a listen to those at least once in their lives, in my humble opinion.
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Bubimann
the great fuckin escape! main title amazing^^
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q-12
looks like main vigilante from no country for old men hehehehe
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kyusslover
Why is nobody mentioning the Magnificent Seven?
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PopeAustin
the great escape!
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Epitymbidia
"The Age of Innocence", "The Good Son", "Far from Heaven" and "The Black Cauldron" are absolutely gorgeous works. I highly recommend them.
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dandrough
'To kill a mockingbird' is one of the most beautiful scores ever written.
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wjp4107
Good day... Please check out the Movie Score Addicts... group. We would be very glad to have you as a member too. Thanks...
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reimusho
classic
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Qbiak00
Basil Poledouris group. One of the 20th century greatest composers...
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Boudi22
Powers of 10! :)
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