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"I got the chance to score a war
propaganda film," he says. From there,
he attracted the attention of Sidney
Buchman, a vice president of
Columbia Pictures.
Bernstein extols the virtues of the old
Hollywood studio system. "You had
tremendous support — a house orches-
trator and house copyist," he says.
Unfortunately, Bernstein's studio
career was slowed in the 1950s when
he was "gray-listed" by McCarthy sup-
porters as being sym-
pathetic to left-wing
causes, forcing him
to work for a time
on low-budget sci-
ence fiction films.
Bernstein will ulti-
mately be most
remembered for his
breakthrough score
of Otto Preminger's
1955 film, The Man

spoke Yiddish before I learned
English," muses a reflective
Elmer Bernstein, Hollywood's
preeminent film composer. At
79, he has written the scores for more
than 200 films and television pro-
grams, collecting nearly every major
film-composing award in existence,
including an Oscar, an Emmy and two
Golden Globes.
His Jewish roots
take him back to his
childhood in the
Bronx and Brooklyn,
where his maternal
grandmother lived
with the family. "She
kept kosher and
spoke only her native
language from Kiev,"
he says. Exposed to
With The Golden
her constant singing
Starring Frank
Arm.
as she went about her
Sinatra as a heroin-
chores, Bernstein (no
addicted jazz musi-
relation to the late
cian, his score was
composer/conductor
Hollywood's first all-
Leonard Bernstein)
jazz score, spawning
imagines that his
Elmer Bernstein: His favorite
an era of jazz-orient-
grandma's songs
scores
are
"The
Magnificent
ed
films and TV pro-
made a major impres-
Seven,"
"To
Kill
a
Mockingbird"
grams.
sion on his musical
and "The Age of Innocence."
It's apparent that
education.
his muse hasn't left
Whatever the influ-
him yet, and he's
ences, Bernstein's talents have been
currently completing the comedy The
prodigious, encompassing artist, actor,
Rat Race 2001 with Whoopi
concert pianist, composer, musical
Goldberg, Cuba Gooding Jr. and John
arranger and conductor. In honor of
Cleese. Up next is his sixth collabora-
his extraordinary 50-year career in film
tion with director Martin Scorcese, on
composing, cable TV's Turner Classic
The Gangs of New York, starring
Movies is showcasing 31 of his most
Daniel Day-Lewis and Leonardo
memorable movies, running three to
DiCaprio.
four films every Wednesday and
"People ask me what my life is
Friday night throughout the month.
about," Bernstein says. "I tell them I
As a young boy, Bernstein seemed
think it's a privilege to be involved
poised to make his mark in music. His
with
something that makes people feel
piano teacher took him to see compos-
better,
two hours at a time." E
er Aaron Copland, asking him if he
thought 12-year-old Elmer had any
talent for composition. "I don't know,"
replied Copland, adding, "Let's give
Turner Classic Movies will show-
him some lessons and find out."
case Elmer Bernstein's talent in
A career as a concert pianist ensued.
composing movie scores every
But it was during World War II that
Wednesday and Friday night
Bernstein made an all-important career
throughout May. Check your
leap while writing dramatic scores for
local cable listings.
Army Air Corps radio shows.

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