Podcast: Elmer Bernstein, May 2003

This ASMAC Luncheon podcast features Elmer Bernstein, an American composer and conductor best known for his many film scores. (April 4, 1922 – August 18, 2004) In a career which spanned fifty years, he composed music for hundreds of film and television productions. His most popular works include the scores to The Magnificent Seven, The Ten Commandments, The Great Escape, To Kill a Mockingbird, Ghostbusters, The Black Cauldron, Airplane!, and The Rookies. Bernstein won an Oscar for his score to Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967) and was nominated for fourteen Oscars in total. He also won two Golden Globes and was nominated for two Grammy Awards. Introduced by David Raksin.

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