ELMER BERNSTEIN COMPOSER OF MUSIC FOR THE MOVIES by D'Lynn Waldron,PhD

Elmer Bernstein died in his sleep August 18, 2004 at 2: PM in his home in Ojai, at the age of 82, with his family around him. He is survived by his wife, Eve, sons Peter and Gregory, daughters Emilie and Elizabeth, and five grandchildren.

What I wrote about him the year before his death expresses how I feel, and Elmer read and enjoyed it. People will say "We'll always have Elmer's music," which is true, but Elmer himself, with his boyish bounce and enthusiasm, was one of the bright spots in lives of those who knew him, and his music won't replace that.

Elmer Bernstein is an amazing at 81 going on 18. He runs and skips down aisles, bounces up steps and does little jigs of joy with a twinkle in his eye.

Elmer Bernstein’s bouncy up-beat personality shines through his music, most clearly in the 'Great Escape’s' main theme which quintessentially captures the irrepressible American spirit.

Even when he is having a serious discussion of music, his voice is that of a young man filled with the joy of living.

Recently, Elmer Bernstein, like a kid, plopped down on his stomach on the stage at a private screening so he could talk face to face with me when I was standing on the auditorium floor. The 2001 photo he chose to show of himself on his Web site was taken of him lying on his stomach under their Christmas tree, playing with a colorful toy train (see photo below). The most recent photo on Elmer's own site is the one I took of him in 2003 with his friend David Raksin (who died just before Elmer on August 9, 2004. at the age of 92).

Elmer Bernstein’s colleagues often tell me of their gratitude to him because he has long been the leading crusader for the rights of composers and musicians, few of whom have his bargaining power with the studios and record companies.

Elmer Bernstein generously expresses his own gratitude to his many friends and colleagues like the beloved Henry Mancini, and to the producers and directors who take risks to let him do innovative scores.

For me, Elmer Bernstein is the poster boy for never having to fear growing old.

As he recently said, it is great to be 80 because he doesn’t have to worry about his career, doesn’t have to prove anything to anybody, and can do the work he wants, the way he wants.

Elmer Bernstein was born in New York City on April 4th, 1922. As a child he did painting, acting and dancing as well as being a musical prodigy. At 13 he impressed Aaron Copland so much that the renouned composer took an interest in his musical education as a concert pianist.

Though his studies were classical, Elmer Bernstein’s greatest musical passion was jazz and he formed his own group while in high school.

Elmer Bernstein went to the Julliard where he studied piano and composition.

During WW II, Elmer Bernstein served in the military composing for more than eighty Armed Forces radio programs, and he did orchestral arrangements of folk songs for Glen Miller and the Army Air Force Band.

After the war Elmer Bernstein did scoring for two United Nations radio broadcasts and that led in 1949 to a job scoring for NBC. This was followed by an offer from Columbia Studios to score movies. His first movie score was ‘Saturday’s Hero’ in 1951.

Elmer Bernstein’s advocacy of social causes got him graylisted during the McCarthy era and he was relegated to low budget Science Fiction movies which have become cult favorites. He pioneered electronic music while doing these movies.

Elmer Bernstein often expresses his gratitude to Cecil B. DeMille for giving him his first chance at a major movie, with the symphonic score for the Biblical epic ‘The Ten Commandments’ released in 1956.

What is most amazing about the talent of Elmer Bernstein is that he has composed and innovated in so many different genre with great success in each.

While ‘The Ten Commandments’ was in production, Elmer Bernstein gained fame in the industry for his groundbreaking jazz score for Frank Sinatra’s ‘Man with the Golden Arm’ in 1955. This was followed by other jazz scores for movies such as ‘The Sweet Smell of Success ’ and the Academy Award nominated ‘Walk on the Wild Side’.

In an entirely different style, Elmer Bernstein scored ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ with a sparse instrumentation that captures the pathos of race relations in the American South. This score was a radical departure from the previous lush European style and was very influential in the direction film music has taken.

Elmer Bernstein’s 1960 score for ‘The Magnificent Seven’ is the most famous of all Western scores and he explains that he takes his inspiration for his Western scores from the vast and magnificent land in which they are set.

In yet another genre, Elmer Bernstein won the Oscar in 1967 for the traditional musical ‘Thoroughly Modern Millie’.

In 1969 he did the score for the Broadway musical ‘How Now Dow Jones’.

Mastering yet another genre, Elmer Bernstein did great comedies including ‘Ghost Busters’ and ‘Airplane’ for which his score was crucial in its being acknowledged as one of the greatest of all movie comedies. He explains that it was his decision to counterpoint the parody by writing his score as if it was a genuine ‘danger in the air’ movie.

His next period really began with ‘My Left Foot’ in 1989 when he wrote without charge, the score for the film about the disabled Irish writer Christy Brown. This was followed by other independent Irish films including the acclaimed ‘Da!’ and ‘The Field’.

Elmer Bernstein's collaboration with Martin Scorsese began with the film noire ‘The Grifters’, for which he wrote a quirky score that suited the story. Elmer Bernstein has done a total of seven projects with Martin Scorsese and in the Spring of 2002 he recorded this score for Scorsese’s epic drama 'The Gangs of New York', about the Irish immigrant criminal organizations in the 19th Century. 'Gangs of New York' wasn't working for Scorsese and was already two years behind its release schedule when Scorsese decided in the Autumn of 2002 to replace Bernstein's score with an assortment of Irish songs, possibly make the pace of the film seem more lively.

Elmer Bernstein says his melodies come to him in a variety of ways. Sometimes it is when he improvising on the piano, sometimes the idea for a melody awakens him in the night, and sometimes the melodies "just come like a miracle from God".

Elmer Bernstein is a front line crusader for the rights of composers and musicians who do not have his bargaining power. He is also an outspoken critic of the way composers must now work under the micro-management, day by day, cue by cue, of a director and then with cuts and changes made by front office people who may know nothing about music. He says composers must have the time and freedom to be creative and be allowed to think of the film as a unity.

Elmer Bernstein's sons by his first marriage are Gregory and Peter, who is also a composer. With his wife Evie, Elmer Bernstein has two daughters Elizabeth and Emilie, and Emilie and her husband have a 2-year-old daughter Castelle. Elmer Bernsteein and his wife enjoy sailing on their 48 foot yatch off the Pacific Northwest.

Elmer Bernstein's daughter Emilie has her own rock group Eve's Garden for which she writes songs. She also works with her father on his orchestrations and album production. Emily says, "Orchestrating is decorating what's been written - for instance, I can add in instruments. My father gives me a sketch of what he's written and I can add in anything I want - though he reserves the right to remove it. He's incredibly trusting. He never looks over my shoulder."

Elmer Bernstein says of working with his daughter Emily, "Along with our artistic empathy, she knows what my emotional response will be to any situation, and how I'll react to particular instruments in the score."

Elmer Bernstein continues to compose in many genre with undiminished creativity. In 2002, he did the ravishingly beautiful and highly praised score for ‘Far From Heaven’, which his daughter Emilie orchestrated.

Elmer Bernstein says it is a melody line that makes a movie score memorable and melody lines are about human feelings. There are too few movies being made today about human feelings which is why he was so happy to get the chance to score Far From Heaven. He was also happy that all 2002’s nominated scores were for movies that were about human emotions, and not just action and effects.

ELMER BERNSTEIN’S AWARDS
Accepting the Golden Globe Award for Far From Heaven, January 2003 in Santa Monica

2002 Academy Awards - Nominee, Best Original Score - Far from Heaven
1993 Academy Awards - Nominee, Best Original Score - The Age of Innocence
1983 Academy Awards - Nominee, Best Adapted Score - Trading Places
1974 Academy Awards - Nominee, Best Original Song - "Wherever Love Takes Me" from Gold
1969 Academy Awards - Nominee, Best Original Song - "True Grit" from True Grit
1967 Academy Awards - Winner, Best Original Score - Throughly Modern Millie
1967 Academy Awards - Nominee, Best Adapted Score - Return of the Seven
1966 Academy Awards - Nominee, Best Original Song - "My Wishing Doll" from Hawaii
1966 Academy Awards - Nominee, Best Original Score - Hawaii
1962 Academy Awards - Nominee, Best Original Score - To Kill A Mockingbird
1962 Academy Awards - Nominee, Best Original Song - "Walk on the Wild Side" from Walk on the Wild Side
1961 Academy Awards - Nominee, Best Original Score - Summer and Smoke
1960 Academy Awards - Nominee, Best Original Score - The Magnificent Seven
1955 Academy Awards - Nominee, Best Original Score - The Man with the Golden Arm

2002 Golden Globes - Winner, Best Original Score - Far From Heaven
1969 Golden Globes - Nominee, Best Original Song - "True Grit" from True Grit
1966 Golden Globes - Winner, Best Original Score - Hawaii
1962 Golden Globes - Winner, Best Original Score - To Kill A Mockingbird

1976-1977 Emmy Nomination Captains and the Kings - Chapter 8 ,
1960 , 1963 Emmy Award The Making Of The President

1993 Grammy® Nomination Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture or TV The Age of Innocence , 1993
1984 Grammy® Nomination Best Instrumental Composition, Ghostbusters (Main Title Theme)
1984 Grammy® Nomination Best Album of Original Score for a Motion Picture or a Television Special Ghostbusters
1962Grammy® Nomination, Best Intrumental Theme Grammy® Nomination, Best performance by an Orchestra or Instrumental with Orchestra - Primarily not Jazz or for Dancing Walk on the Wild Side)

1982 Tony Awards Nomination Merlin
1955 Tony Awards Nomination How Now Dow Jones

1958 Downbat Award Best Scoring of a short feature subjectToccata For Toy Trains
1965 Western Heritage Award The Hallelujah Trail
1960 Western Heritage Award The Magnificent Seven

Elmer Bernstein composed an original fanfare that will be premiered June 25, 2004 in honor of the fifth anniversary of the Hollywood Bowl Hall of Fame. "Fanfare for the Hollywood Bowl," is a one-minute piece that is the first of the compositions commissioned from a select group of composers to celebrate the new Hollywood Bowl shell which will greatly improve the acoustics. That evening Brian Wilson, Sarah Chang, and Bernstein's late colleague and good friend, Henry Mancini will be inducted into the Hall of Fame.

At this luncheon, Elmer Bernstein summed up the musicians ethos, "Music is the soul of life, and each soul sings a different song."

An American Epic - The Story of Cecil B. DeMille (recorded by Bernstein in Prague Dec. 2003, to be broadcast by Turner 2004), Gangs of New York score not used (2002), Far From Heaven (2002), Chinese Coffee (2001), Keeping the Faith (2000), Bringing Out The Dead (1999), The Deep End of the Ocean (1999), Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (1999), Wild Wild West (1999), Twilight (1998), Buddy (1997), Hoodlum (1997), Puppies For Sale (1997), The Rainmaker (1997), Rough Riders (1997), Bulletproof (1996), Devil in a Blue Dress (1995), Frankie Starlight (1995), Roommates (1995), Search and Destroy (1995), Canadian Bacon (1994), The Age of Innocence (1993), The Cemetery Club (1993), The Good Son (1993), Lost in Yonkers (1993), Mad Dog and Glory (1993), The Babe (1992), Cape Fear (1991), Oscar (1991), A Rage in Harlem (1991), Rambling Rose (1991), The Field (1990), The Grifters (1990), My Left Foot (1989), Slipstream (1989), Da (1988), Funny Farm (1988), The Good Mother (1988), A Night in the Life of Jimmy Reardon (1988), Amazing Grace and Chuck (1987), Leonard Part 6 (1987), Legal Eagles (1986), Three Amigos! (1986), The Black Cauldron (1985), Gulag (1985), Marie Ward - Zwischen Galgen und Glorie (1985), Spies Like Us (1985), Ghostbusters (1984), Prince Jack (1984), Class (1983), Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone (1983), Trading Places (1983), Airplane II: The Sequel (1982), Five Days One Summer (1982), An American Werewolf in London (1981), The Chosen (1981), Genocide (1981), Going Ape! (1981), Heavy Metal (1981), Honky Tonk Freeway (1981), Stripes (1981), Today's F.B.I. (1981), Airplane! (1980), The Blues Brothers (1980), Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones (1980), Saturn 3 (1980), This Year's Blonde (1980), Bloodbrothers (1979), Charleston (1979), The Great Santini (1979), Meatballs (1979), Zulu Dawn (1979), Art Game (1978), Cézanne (1978), Degas in the Metropolitan (1978), Little Women (1978), National Lampoon's Animal House (1978), Powers of Ten (1978), The 3,000 Mile Chase (1977), Billy Jack Goes to Washington (1977), Daumier: Paris and the Spectator (1977), Polavision (1977), The Worlds of Franklin and Jefferson (1977), From Noon Till Three (1976), The Incredible Sarah (1976), The Look of America (1976), Serpico: The Deadly Game (1976), The Shootist (1976), Ellery Queen (1975), Metropolitan Overview (1975), The Old Curiosity Shop (1975), Report to the Commissioner (1975), Gold (1974), McQ (1974), Men of the Dragon (1974), The Trial of Billy Jack (1974), Cahill: United States Marshal (1973), Copernicus (1973), Nightmare Honeymoon (1973), The Amazing Mr. Blunden (1972), The Magnificent Seven Ride! (1972), The Rookies (1972), SX-70 (1972), Big Jake (1971), Computer Landscape (1971), Computer Perspective (1971), Doctors' Wives (1971), Owen Marshall, Counsellor at Law (1971), See No Evil (1971), Cannon for Cordoba (1970), The Liberation of L. B. Jones (1970), Walk in the Spring Rain (1970), The Bridge at Remagen (1969), The Guns of the Magnificent Seven (1969), The Gypsy Moths (1969), Midas Run (1969), Tops (1969), True Grit (1969), Where's Jack? (1969), I Love You, Alice B. Toklas! (1968), Rough Sketch (1968), The Scalphunters (1968), A Computer Glossary (1967), Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967), 7 Women (1966), Cast a Giant Shadow (1966), Hawaii (1966), Return of the Seven (1966), The Silencers (1966), Baby The Rain Must Fall (1965), Four Days in November (1965), The Hallelujah Trail (1965), The Reward (1965), The Sons of Katie Elder (1965), View from the People Wall (1965), Westinghouse in Alphabetical Order (1965), The Carpetbaggers (1964), House of Science (1964), The World of Henry Orient (1964), The Caretakers (1963), The Great Escape (1963), Hud (1963), Kings of the Sun (1963), Love with the Proper Stranger (1963), Rampage (1963), Birdman of Alcatraz (1962), A Girl Named Tamiko (1962), San Francisco Fire (1962), To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), Walk on the Wild Side (1962), By Love Possessed (1961), The Comancheros (1961), Hollywood: The Golden Years (1961), Summer and Smoke (1961), The Young Doctors (1961), The Fabulous Fifties (1960), From the Terrace (1960), The Magnificent Seven (1960), The Making of the President (1960), The Rat Race (1960), The Miracle (1959), The Race for Space (1959), The Story on Page One (1959), Anna Lucasta (1958), The Buccaneer (1958), Desire Under the Elms (1958), God's Little Acre (1958), Kings Go Forth (1958), Some Came Running (1958), Drango (1957), Fear Strikes Out (1957), Men in War (1957), Saddle the Wind (1957), Sweet Smell of Success (1957), The Tin Star (1957), Toccata for Toy Trains (1957), Eames' Lounge Chair (1956), Storm Fear (1956), The Ten Commandments (1956), The Eternal Sea (1955), House (1955), It's a Dog's Life (1955), The Man with the Golden Arm (1955), The View from Pompey's Head (1955), Make Haste to Live (1954), Miss Robin Crusoe (1954), Silent Raiders (1954), Sofa Compact (1954), Cat-Women of the Moon (1953), Robot Monster (1953), Battles of Chief Pontiac (1952), Boots Malone (1952), Never Wave at a WAC (1952), Sudden Fear (1952), Saturday's Hero (1951).
The Films of Charles & Ray Eames, DVD, in four volumes, http://www.pyramidmedia.com

More than half of Elmer Bernstein’s over 200 film and television scores are on LPs and CDs, which makes him one of the most recorded of all movie composers. His theme for The Magnificent Seven is by far the most-heard theme in the history of movies, through it’s use in advertising, and it epitomizes the American West for people all over the world.
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Sudden Fear, 1952 (Choreo - AS 11)
General Electric Theater, 1953 (Columbia - CS 8190)
Make Haste To Live, 1954 (Citadel - CT 7021)
Eternal Sea, The, 1955 (Citadel - CT 7021)
View from Pompey's Head, The, 1955 (DOT - DLP 25097)
Blues and Brass, 1956 (Decca DL 8686)
Man With The Golden Arm, The, 1956 (Decca - 7 8257)
Man With The Golden Arm, The, 1956 (Capitol)
Ten Commandments, The, 1956 (DOT - DLP 25054-D)
Ten Commandments, The, 1956 (Paramount - PAS1006)
Ten Commandments, The, 1956 (United Artists - 6495)
Ten Commandments, The, 1956 (MCA - MCAd 42320)
Ten Commandments, The, 1956 (Falcon - Falcon 6994)
Drango, 1957 (Liberty - LRP 3036)
Men In War, 1957 (Imperial - 9032)
Sweet Smell of Success, The, 1957 (Decca - DL 8610)
Tin Star, The, 1957 (Epic - 5 9233)
Toccata for Toy Trains, 1957 (FMC - 2)
Anna Lucasta, 1958 (Choreo/Ava - AS 11)
Buccaneer, The, 1958 (Columbia - ACS 8096)
Buccaneer, The, 1958 (Varese Sarabande - VSD-5214)
Desire Under the Elms, 1958 (DOT - 3095)
God's Little Acre, 1958 (United Artists - UAL 4004)
Kings Go Forth, 1958 (Capitol - W 1063)
Love Scene, 1958 (Dot DLP 25097 )
Some Came Running, 1958 (Capitol - SW 1009)
Swashbucklers, 1958 Johnny Staccato, 1959 (Capitol - ST 1287)
Miracle, The, 1959 (Filmmusic - 2)
[Back to Top] From the Terrace, 1960 (20th Century Fox - Fox 1006)
From the Terrace, 1960 (Cinema - 8009)
From the Terrace, 1960 (Capitol - EAP 20104)
From the Terrace, 1960 (Twentieth Century FSM Vol. 3 No. 8)
Magnificent Seven, The, 1960 (RCA Victor)
Paris Swings, 1960 (Capitol T 1288)
Rat Race, The, 1960 (DOT - DLP 3306)
Comancheros, The, 1961 (SLC - 7224)
Summer and Smoke, 1961 (RCA - 20592)
Summer and Smoke, 1961 (Entr-Acte - 6519)
Summer and Smoke, 1961 (Soundstage - CD-600)
Summer and Smoke, 1961 (RCA - LSO 1067)
Girl Named Tamiko, A, 1962 (Ava - C 113)
Summer and Smoke, 1962 (RCA/Spain - 743217 20592)
To Kill A Mockingbird, 1962 (Ava - A 20 As 20)
Walk on the Wild Side, 1962 (Mainstream - 604)
Walk on the Wild Side, 1962 (Choreo/Ava - AS 4)
Caretakers, The, 1963 (Ava - AS 31)
Great Escape, The, 1963 (United Artists - UAS 4107 5107)
Great Escape, The, 1963 (Liberty - 10284)
Great Escape, The, 1963 (Intrada - MAF 7025D)
Making of The President, 1960, The, 1963 (United Artists - UXS 9)
Baby, The Rain Must Fall, 1964 (Ava - AS 53)
Carpetbaggers, The, 1964 (Ava - AS 45)
Hallelujah Trail, The, 1965 (United Artists - UAS 5127)
Sons of Katie Elder, The, 1965 (Columbia - OS 2820)
Cast a Giant Shadow, 1966 (United Artists - UAS 5138)
Hawaii, 1966 (United Artists - UAS 5143)
Israel Now, 1966 (United Artists - 3609-6609)
Return of the Seven, 1966 (United Artists - SW-91118)
Return of the Seven, 1966 (Rykodisc - 10714)
Silencers, The, 1966 (RCA - LSO 1120)
Music From Marlboro Country, The, 1967 (United Artists - SP 107)
Thoroughly Modern Millie, 1967 (Decca - DL 71500)
Bridge at Remagen, The, 1968 (United Artists - UAS 6731)
How Now Dow Jones, 1968 (RCA - 63581)
I Love You, Alice B. Toklas!, 1968 (Warner Bros.)
I Love You, Alice B. Toklas!, 1968 (Cinema - 8010)
Scalphunters, The, 1968 (MCA - MCA 25042)
Scalphunters, The, 1968 (EMI - Cdp 79 4946)
Scalphunters, The, 1968 (United Artists - UAS 4176 5176)
Comancheros, The / True Grit, 1969 (Capitol - 4664)
Gypsy Moths, The, 1969 (Cinema - LP 8011)
True Grit, 1969 (S.L.C. - 7224)
True Grit, 1969 (Capitol - ST 263)
Where's Jack?, 1969 (Paramount - PAS 5005)
[Back to Top] Liberation of L.B. Jones, The, 1970 (Cinema - LP 8009)
Walk in the Spring Rain, A, 1970 (Cinema - LP 8013)
Big Jake, 1971 (Varese Sarabande - Stv 81228)
Big Jake, 1971 (S.L.C. - 7224)
Cahill: United States Marshal, 1973 (Varese Sarabande - 704350)
Gold, 1974 (ABC - ABC D 855)
Helen of Troy and Summer Place, A, 1974 (Filmmusic 1)
McQ, 1974 (TAM - YT 1061)
Trial of Billy Jack, The, 1974 (ABC - ABCD 853)
Miracle, The and Toccata for Toy Trains, 1975 (Filmmusic 2)
Mr. Quilp, 1975 (CHAP - 12574)
Silver Chalice, The, 1975 (Filmmusic 3)
From Noon till Three, 1976 (United Artists - XW 853 Y)
Ghost and Mrs. Muir, The, 1976 (Filmmusic 4)
Wuthering Heights, 1976 (Filmmusic 6)
Young Bess, 1976 (Filmmusic 5)
Thief of Bagdad - Miklos Rozsa, 1977 (Filmmusic 8)
To Kill A Mockingbird, 1977 (Filmmusic 7)
Torn Curtain - Bernard Hermann, 1977 (Filmmusic 10)
Viva Zapata! and Death of a Salesman, 1977 (Filmmusic 9)
Animal House, 1978 (MCA - 3046)
Land of the Pharaohs and Gunfight at O.K. Coral, 1978 (Filmmusic 13)
Madame Bovary, 1978 (Filmmusic 12)
Scorpio, 1978 (Filmmusic 11)
To Kill A Mockingbird, 1978 (Warner Bros. Records)
High and the Mighty, The and Search for Paradise, 1979 (Filmmusic 14)
Meatballs, 1979 (RSO - RS 1 3056)
Zulu Dawn, 1979 (Cerberus - CST 0201)
[Back to Top] Saturn III, 1980 (Liberty - 019)
American Werewolf in London, An, 1981 (Casablanca - C6480065)
Heavy Metal, 1981 (Full Moon/Asylum - 5E547)
Genocide, 1982 (Intrada - FMT 8007D)
Bolero, 1984 (Prometheus - Pod 124)
Ghostbusters, 1984 (Arista - AR 88246x)
Grammy® Nomination, Best Album of Original Score for a Motion Picture or a Television Special Grammy® Nomination, Best Instrumental Composition (Main Title Theme)
Marie Ward, 1984 (Colosseum - 8015)
Marie Ward, 1984 (Varese Sarabande - 81268)
Black Cauldron, The, 1985 (Varese Sarabande - VCD 47441)
Comancheros, The / True Grit, 1985 (Varese Sarabande - 47236)
Digital Premiere Recordings from the Films of Miklos Rozsa, 1985 (Varese Sarabande)
Spies Like Us, 1985 (Varese Sarabande - VCD 81270 and VCD 47246)
Legal Eagles, 1986 (MCA - MCA 6172)
Three Amigos!, 1986 (Warner Bros. - 25558)
Amazing Grace and Chuck, 1987 (Varese Sarabande - STV 81312 and VCD47285)
Miklos Rozsa Film Music, 1987 (Entertainment Records)
Round Up - Eric Kunzel and the Cincinnati Pops, 1987 (Telarc - CD 80141)
Ghost and Mrs. Muir, The, 1988 (Varese Sarabande - VSD47254)
Stars 'N' Bars, 1988 (Varese Sarabande - VSD91018)
Happy Trails, 1989 (Telarc - CD 80191)
Hollywood Legend: Miklos Rozsa, 1989 (Varese Sarabande - VSD 5206)
John Wayne, Films Of, The, Volume One, 1989 (Varese Sarabande - VSD47236)
John Wayne, Films Of, The, Volume Two, 1989 (Varese Sarabande - VSD47264)
My Left Foot/Da!, 1989 (Varese Sarabande - VSD5244)
[Back to Top] Exodus & Cast A Giant Shadow, 1990 (United Artists - CDP79-4286 2)
Field, The, 1990 (Varese Sarabande - Varese 5292)
Grifters, The, 1990 (Varese Sarabande - VSD-5290)
Baby The Rain Must Fall, 1991 (Mainstream - MDCD 603)
Cape Fear, 1991 (MCA)
Man and His Movies, A, 1991 (Mainstream - MDCD 601)
Oscar, 1991 (Varese Sarabande - VSD 5313)
Rage In Harlem, A, 1991 (Varese Sarabande - VSD-5325)
Rambling Rose, 1991 (Virgin America - 91717)
Babe, The, 1992 (MCA - MCA 10576)
Beat Generation, The, 1992 (Rhino)
Bernard Herrmann's Film Score, 1992 (Milan - 3138-35643-2)
Mad Dog and Glory, 1992 (Varese Sarabande - 5415)
Telarc Collection Volume 2, The - Eric Kunzel and the Cincinnati Pops, 1992 (Telarc - CD 89102)
Age of Innocence, The, 1993 (Epic - EK57451)
Grammy® Nomination, Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture or Television Cemetery Club, The, 1993 (Varese Sarabande - VSD-5412)
Elmer Bernstein by Elmer Bernstein, 1993 (Denon - CO-75288)
Elmer Bernstein - Movie & TV Themes, 1993 (Mobile Fidelity)
Film Music and Variations, 1993 (Cambria)
Good Son, The, 1993 (20th Century Fox - 11013)
Hollywood's Greatest Hits Vol 2-Cincinnati Pops, 1993 (Telarc - CD80319)
Lost In Yonkers, 1993 (Varese Sarabande - 5419)
Blood and Thunder, 1994 (Varese Sarabande - VSD5561)
Hollywood '94, 1994 (Varese Sarabande - VSD 5531)
Sayonara Orchestral Suites, 1994 (BMG - 09026 62657 2)
American Dreams-The American Music Sampler Volume Two, 1995 (Koch International)
Devil In A Blue Dress, 1995 (Columbia - 67008)
Frankie Starlight, 1995 (Varese Sarabande - Varese 5679)
Kings Go Forth/Some Came Running, 1995 (Cloud Nine - CNS 5054)
Midas Run, The / House, The Citadel, 1995 (Ct 6016)
Roommates, 1995 (Hollywood - HR 62003-2)
Sinatra Soundtracks/Kings Go Forth, 1995 (Capitol)
Best Music of Miramax Films, 1996 (Sony Classical)
Billboard Top Movie Hits 55-59, 1996 (Rhino)
Bulletproof, 1996 (Varese Sarabande - 57572)
Cinema Classics,1996 (Koch International)
Crime Scene, The, 1996 (Capitol - 36129)
How The West Was Won/Classic Western Film Scores, 1996 (Silva)
Last Man Standing, 1996 (Varese Sarabande - VSD-5755)
Magnificent Seven, The - James Sedares Conducts the Phoenix Symphony, 1996 (Koch International 3-7222)
Original Scores from MGM Classics, 1996 (Chandos)
Surround Sounds, 1996 (Telarc - CD 80447)
Swingsational, 1996 (Universal Special Markets)
Ultra Lounge Volume 7-The Crime Scene, 1996 (Capitol/EMI)
Ultra-Lounge Volume 10-Bachelor in Paris, 1996 (Capitol/EMI)
Buddy, 1997 (Varese Sarabande Varese - 5829)
Cinema Serenades, 1997 (Sony Classical)
Great Escape, The, 1997 (RCA Victor - 63241-2)
Hoodlum, 1997 (RCA Victor - 68837-2)
Magnificent Seven, The, 1997 (RCA Victor - 63240-2)
Musical Spectacular - MGM Films, 1997 (Rykodisc)
Rainmaker, The, 1997 (Hollywood - HR-62141-2)
Rough Riders, 1997 (Intrada - 7079)
Time To Remember, A, 1997 (EMI America)
To Kill A Mockingbird, 1997 (Varese Sarabande - VSD 5754)
Best Of The West, 1998 (Twillight Edeltone)
Great Escape, The, 1998 (Rykodisc - 10711)
Neil Diamond - The Movie Album - As Time Goes By, 1998 (Columbia C2K 69540)
Magnificent Seven, The, 1998 (RYKO - RCD 10741)
Man With The Golden Arm, The, 1998 (MCA - 2043-1526)
Play Ball - Eric Kunzel and the Cincinnati Pops, 1998 (Telarc - CD 80468)
Twilight, 1998 (Edel-America - Edel 3800)
Alfred Hitchcock Presents Signatures in Suspense, 1999 (MCA Hippo)
American Parade-Collection of Marches, 1999 (Intersound)
Comancheros, The, 1999 (Film Score - FSM Vol. 2 No.6)
Deep End Of The Ocean, The, 1999 (Milan - 35873-2)
Great Composers: Elmer Bernstein, 1999 (Varese Sarabande - VSD 5290)
Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, 1999 (RCA Victor - 9026-63544-2)
Mega TV Various Themes and Artists, 1999 (Wager)
Music In Film, 1999 (Sony Classical)
Phantom Menace and Other Hi Fi Soundtracks, 1999 (Varese Sarabande)
Wild Wild West, 1999 (Varese Sarabande - VSD-6042)
Wild Wild Westerns, 1999 (Silva)
[Back to Top] Keeping the Faith, 2000 (Hollywood Records - HR622752)
Concerto for Guitar and Orchestra, 2000 (Angel 7243 5 56859 2 6)
Music for Films by Charles & Ray Eames Volume One, 2000 (AMB-2001)
Man with the Golden Arm, The, 2001 (MCA Coral 544 627-2)
World of Henry Orient, The, 2001 (FSM - Vol 4 No. 16)
View from Pompey's Head, The, 2001 (FSM - Vol.4 No. 15)
Big Jake, 2002 (Prometheus Records - PCR 512)
Marie Ward, 2002 (Varese Sarabande - VCL 1101 1003)
Way Out West The Essential Western Film Music Collection 2, 2002 (Silva Screen Records - FILMXCO 356)
National Geographic Presents Yankee Sails Across Europe / Grizzly! Elmer Bernstein, Jerome Moross (Intrada Special Collection Volume 12. 24 tracks–61:54)

A-B-C - HOW NOW DOW JONES (Carolyn Leigh)
Afraid - SUDDEN FEAR (Jack Brooks)
Are You Ready For The Summer - MEATBALLS (Norman Gimbel)
Baby, the Rain Must Fall - BABY, THE RAIN MUST FALL (Ernie Sheldon)
The Ballad of Jack Shepherd - WHERE'S JACK (Don Black)
Best Friend - MEATBALLS (Norman Gimbel)
Beyond My Wildest Dreams - MERLIN (Don Black)
Big Trouble - HOW NOW DOW JONES (Carolyn Leigh)
Bird Man - BIRDMAN OF ALCATRAZ (Mack David)
By Love Possessed Theme - BY LOVE POSSESSED (Sammy Cahn)
The Costume Ball - DOCTORS' WIVES (Alan & Marilyn Bergman)
Delilah Jones - THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM (Sylvia Fine)
From My Window - FRANKIE STARLIGHT (Emilie A. Bernstein)
Gawk, Tousle and Shucks - HOW NOW DOW JONES (Carolyn Leigh)
A Girl Named Tamiko - A GIRL NAMED TAMIKO (Mack David)
Gold - GOLD (Don Black)
The Great Escape March - THE GREAT ESCAPE (Al Stillman)
The Hallelujah Trail - THE HALLELUJAH TRAIL (Ernie Sheldon)
He Who Knows The Way - MERLIN (Don Black)
Hello and Goodbye - FROM NOON TILL THREE (Alan & Marilyn Bergman)
He's Here - HOW NOW DOW JONES (Carolyn Leigh)
How I Need You - THE TRIAL OF BILLY JACK (Delores Taylor)
Hud - HUD (Mack David)
I Can Make It Happen - MERLIN (Don Black)
It's About Magic - MERLIN (Don Black)
Just For The Moment - HOW NOW DOW JONES (Carolyn Leigh)
A Little Investigation - HOW NOW DOW JONES (Carolyn Leigh)
Live a Little - HOW NOW DOW JONES (Carolyn Leigh)
Love Me True - CAST A GIANT SHADOW (Ernie Sheldon)
Love With the Proper Stranger - LOVE WITH THE PROPER STRANGER (Johnny Mercer)
Lovers' Gold - THE BUCCANEER (Mack David)
Meatballs - MEATBALLS (Norman Gimbel)
Men in War - MEN IN WAR (Alan Alch)
Molly-O - THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM (Sylvia Fine)
Monica - THE CARPETBAGGERS (Earl Shuman)
Monique - KINGS GO FORTH (Sammy Cahn)
Moondust - MEATBALLS (Norman Gimbel)
My Wishing Doll - HAWAII (Mack David)
The Pleasure's About To Be Mine - HOW NOW DOW JONES (Carolyn Leigh)
Put A Little Magic In Your Life - MERLIN (Don Black)
Rich Is Better - HOW NOW DOW JONES (Carolyn Leigh)
Santiago - THE SILENCERS (Mack David)
Satan Rules - MERLIN (Don Black)
Shakespeare Lied - HOW NOW DOW JONES (Carolyn Leigh)
The Silencers - THE SILENCERS (Mack David)
Somehow - DRANGO (Alan Alch)
Something More - MERLIN (Don Black)
The Sons of Katie Elder - THE SONS OF KATIE ELDER (Ernie Sheldon)
Step to the Rear - HOW NOW DOW JONES (Carolyn Leigh)
That's Anna - ANNA LUCASTA (Sammy Cahn)
They Don't Make 'Em Like That Anymore - HOW NOW DOW JONES (Carolyn Leigh)
The Tin Star - THE TIN STAR (Jack Brooks)
To Kill a Mockingbird - TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (Mack David)
Touch and Go - HOW NOW DOW JONES (Carolyn Leigh)
True Grit - TRUE GRIT (Don Black)
Walk Away - HOW NOW DOW JONES (Carolyn Leigh)
A Walk in the Spring Rain - A WALK IN THE SPRING RAIN (Don Black)
A Walk on the Wild Side - WALK ON THE WILD SIDE (Mack David)
We Haven't Fought A Battle In Years - MERLIN (Don Black)
Where Have You Been All My Life - GOLD (Don Black)
Where's Jack - WHERE'S JACK (Don Black)
Wherever Love Takes Me - GOLD (Don Black)

Captains and the Kings, Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic, Charleston, The Chisholms, Cousteau's Odyssey, Ellery Queen, General Electric Theater, Gulag, Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones, Hollywood and the Stars, Incident on a Dark Street, Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, Johnny Staccato, Julia, Little Women, The Making of the President -- 1960, Men of the Dragon, Moviola: This Year's Blonde, National Geographic, Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law, Riverboat, The Rookies, Serpico, Seventh Avenue, Today's FBI