Elmer Bernstein - Movie Themes, Mood Music & More 1952-62 - Elmer Bernstein was a composer and conductor who became renowned for his work in films and TV, writing, scoring and recording some of the most renowned and recognisable themes in in Hollywood history. He is not related to the renowned composer of stage musicals Leonard Bernstein. Born in 1922, he served in the USAF in WWII, working in Armed Forces Radio, and came to the fore in the early 1950s when he started writing for movies. This 44-track 2-CD collection primarily features soundtrack and commercial recordings of themes and other music written for films and albums during the first decade of his career. In addition, it includes selected titles from his albums "Blues And Brass" for Decca and "Movie & TV Themes" on the Choreo label. It includes "The Man With the Golden Arm", "Staccato's Theme", "The Magnificent Seven", and "Walk On The Wild Side", plus themes from "The Ten Commandments", "The Comancheros", "To Kill A Mockingbird" and more. Although he composed for many different genres of film, his style was very distinctive, characterised by dramatic and atmospheric melodies and arrangements that invariably conjured up the mood and imagery of the subject. Comprising a selection of works from his early career, this collection offers an entertaining and evocative showcase for that style.

Tracklist:

Sudden Fear Title Theme
Make Haste to Live
The Eternal Sea Theme
The View from Pompey's Head
Man Title Theme from Man with the Golden Arm
Clark Street
Prelude
The Ten Commandments
Prelude (Drango Comes to Kennesaw Pass)
Men in War
The Street
Toots Shor's Blues
The Tin Star
Desire Under the Elms
Kings Go Forth
To Love and Be Loved
Live It Up
The Buccaneer
Back to Barataria
Staccato's Theme
The Jazz at Waldo's
The Miracle
From the Terrace Love Theme
Mary Mary
The Magnificent Seven
By Love Possessed
Theme from Summer and Smoke
The Comancheros Theme
Walk on the Wild Side
Walk on the Wild Side Jazz
Main Title from the Rat Race
Saints and Sinners Theme
The Bird Man
Theme from Two Weeks in Another Town
Theme from Girl from Tamiko
Main Title from to Kill a Mockingbird
Blues at Five
Central Park 4Am
Jubilation
Wild and Crazy
Smooth
Just a Little Jazz
Return of the Man
Three Time Blueser
Radio Hysteria
Anna Lucasta
Hop, Skip But Jump
Sweet Smell of Success

UPC: 824046357726
Label: Acrobat
Release Date: 2.13.26
Format: CD

Elmer Bernstein - Movie Themes, Mood Music & More 1952-62 (CD)