Has there ever been a release of his Academy Award Winning score?
The soundtrack that was released contains none of Bernstein's score and was only the songs used in the film including the title song which was nominated for an Oscar (Jimmy Van Heusen & Sammy Cahn) .The musical numbers were scored and adapted by André Previn & Joseph Gershenson and they also were nominated for an Oscar.
Wonder why Bernstein never put his score for this out on his own Film Music Label Series?
I guess rights and ownership issues probably? Would have been nice.
Sad that he got the Oscar for this instead of one of his truly great scores like THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD or THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN or countless others from his superb output.
Oh well.
That year at the Oscars for Best Original Score, it beat out:
Lalo Schifrin – Cool Hand Luke Leslie Bricusse – Doctor Dolittle Richard Rodney Bennett – Far from the Madding Crowd Quincy Jones – In Cold Blood
It's a Universal Pictures film, so you probably know how that goes. A Bernstein score album could be released next month or ten years from now. Doug Fake and Robert Townson have surely eyed it.
Has there ever been a release of his Academy Award Winning score?
The soundtrack that was released contains none of Bernstein's score and was only the songs used in the film including the title song which was nominated for an Oscar (Jimmy Van Heusen & Sammy Cahn) .The musical numbers were scored and adapted by André Previn & Joseph Gershenson and they also were nominated for an Oscar.
Only thing I know available is the recording I did of the aerial waltz "Sky-Hi" for the Essential Elmer Bernstein Collection
What I'd like to know is . . . who thought up the idea of having to tap dance on the elevator floor to persuade it to do what elevators do? On second thought . . . maybe it was the music!
