Elmer Bernstein/Awesome Music
- Elmer Bernstein's The Ten Commandments Suite was epic of biblical proportions.
- The theme from The Magnificent Seven that possibly redefined, reimagined and gave life to the whole genre of cowboy Western films. (Probably everyone will be more familiar of this theme nowadays as that music from the old Marlboro commercial.) When it comes to invoking images of cowboys and sunsets in Midwest, no one did it better than Elmer Bernstein.
- If you love the rousing Western The Magnificent Seven theme, then feast your ears to other works of Western music by Elmer Bernstein:
- His war movie scores has offered the movie composer some interesting challenges: He often used understatement rather than bombast to reflect the drama of war. But when it was needed, he could also write some of the most stirring and powerful martial music this side of John Philip Sousa.
- Maestro Bernstein conducting The Great Escape.
- Stripes.
- Cast A Giant Shadow.
- The Bridge At Remagen.
- The Grifters.
- The Carpetbaggers.
- The World Of Henry Orient.
- National Geographic, famous for its nature documentary films, commissioned Elmer Bernstein to compose its now well known theme we're all familiar today.
- The Age of Innocence, another fine gem from an underrated movie.
- His musical score for Thoroughly Modern Mille garnered him his one and only Oscar.
- To Kill A Mockingbird remains one of the most haunting themes by Elmer Bernstein. (The score that directors of dramatic films wanted their composers to emulate.)
- The Birdman Of Alcatraz.
- The Good Son had a nostalgic feeling to it.
- Summer and Smoke.
- Love With The Proper Stranger.
- Far From Heaven, the Maestro's final film score.
- Gold.
- Hawaii.
- Take a Walk On The Wild Side.
- The fun Ghostbuster's main title theme as well as Dana's theme.
- Elmer Bernstein was also one of the pioneers of creating and popularizing jazz music in films with The Man With The Golden Arm.
- He also did the music for Airplane!!.
- He even did some effectively heroic music for the animated film Heavy Metal.
- Some more helpings of Bernstein's beautiful music.
- Frankie Starlight.
- The Deep End of the Ocean.
- Hoodlum.
- Twilight (1998). No, not the other Twilight.
- The Black Cauldron was to Elmer Bernstein what Mulan was to Jerry Goldsmith.