| Events In Film Score History |
 |
|
January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December | |
|
|
| August 1: |
Arthur B. Rubinstein records his score for the Amazing Stories episode "Remote Control Man" (1985) |
|
|
Jerome Moross born (1913) |
|
|
Lionel Bart born (1930) |
|
|
Paul Sawtell died (1971) |
|
|
Walter Scharf born (1910) |
|
|
| August 2: |
Carlo Savina born (1919) |
|
|
Joe Harnell born (1924) |
|
|
Muir Mathieson died (1975) |
|
|
| August 3: |
David Buttolph born (1902) |
|
|
Louis Gruenberg born (1884) |
|
|
Robert Emmett Dolan born (1906) |
|
|
| August 4: |
Bernardo Segall born (1911) |
|
|
David Raksin born (1912) |
|
|
Egisto Macchi born (1928) |
|
|
Egisto Macchi died (1992) |
|
|
Recording sessions begin for The Prisoner of Zenda remake, with Conrad Salinger adapting Alfred Newman's original score (1952) |
|
|
| August 5: |
Abigail Mead born as Vivian Kubrick (1960) |
|
|
Alexander Courage's music for the Star Trek episode "The Enterprise Incident" is recorded (1968) |
|
|
Michael Small begins recording his score for Comes a Horseman (1978) |
|
|
| August 6: |
Alex North begins recording his score to Pony Soldier (1952) |
|
|
Andre Previn begins recording his score to The Outriders (1949) |
|
|
Cyril J. Mockridge born (1896) |
|
|
David Newman begins recording his score to The Brave Little Toaster (1986) |
|
|
Larry Adler died (2001) |
|
|
Oliver Wallace born (1887) |
|
|
| August 7: |
Benny Carter born (1907) |
|
|
David Raksin begins recording his score for The Man with a Cloak (1951) |
|
|
Jerry Fielding begins recording his score to The Mechanic (1972) |
|
|
Joseph Kosma died (1969) |
|
|
Recording sessions begin for Bronislau Kaper's score for Her Twelve Men (1953) |
|
|
Roy Budd died (1993) |
|
|
| August 8: |
Arthur Morton born (1908) |
|
|
Jerry Goldsmith begins recording his score to Capricorn One (1977) |
|
|
Louis Levy died (1957) |
|
|
Nathan Wang born (1956) |
|
|
Stefano Mainetti born (1957) |
|
|
Victor Young born (1901) |
|
|
| August 9: |
David Raksin died (2004) |
|
|
Dmitri Shostakovich died (1975) |
|
|
George Duning's score for the Star Trek episode "And the Children Shall Lead" is recorded (1968) |
|
|
Peter Matz died (2002) |
|
|
| August 10: |
Brian Easdale born (1909) |
|
|
Isaac Hayes died (2008) |
|
|
Mischa Bakaleinikoff died (1960) |
|
|
| August 11: |
Joe Jackson born (1954) |
|
|
Miklos Rozsa begins recording his score for The Light Touch (1951) |
|
|
Ron Grainer born (1922) |
|
|
| August 12: |
David Munrow born (1942) |
|
|
Jerry Goldsmith begins recording his score to The Traveling Executioner (1970) |
|
|
Mark Knopfler born (1949) |
|
|
Marty Paich died (1995) |
|
|
Pat Metheny born (1954) |
|
|
| August 13: |
Jerry Goldsmith begins recording his score to Star Trek: Nemesis (2002) |
|
|
John Cacavas born (1930) |
|
|
John Ottman begins recording his score to Gothika (2003) |
|
|
| August 14: |
James Horner born (1953) |
|
|
Lee Zahler born (1893) |
|
|
Oscar Levant died (1972) |
|
|
| August 15: |
Bruce Broughton begins recording his score for George Washington II: The Forging of a Nation (1986) |
|
|
Jacques Ibert born (1890) |
|
|
Jimmy Webb born (1946) |
|
|
Ron Jones records his pilot score for the animated Superman series (1988) |
|
|
Ronald Stein died (1988) |
|
|
| August 16: |
Miles Goodman died (1996) |
|
|
| August 18: |
Elmer Bernstein died (2004) |
|
|
Igo Kantor born (1930) |
|
|
Jack Elliott died (2001) |
|
|
Recording sessions begin for Bronislau Kaper's score for BUtterfield 8 (1960) |
|
|
Robert Russell Bennett died (1981) |
|
|
| August 19: |
Alexander Courage's score for the Star Trek episode "The Man Trap” is recorded (1966) |
|
|
Andre Previn begins recording his score to The Subterraneans (1959) |
|
|
Elmer Bernstein begins recording his score for Desire Under the Elms (1957) |
|
|
Fumio Hayasaka born (1914) |
|
|
Herman Stein born (1915) |
|
|
Jerry Goldsmith begins recording his score to The Illustrated Man (1968) |
|
|
Luchi De Jesus born (1923) |
|
|
Luchi De Jesus died (1984) |
|
|
Ray Cooper born (1942) |
|
|
| August 20: |
Alain Goraguer born (1931) |
|
|
Isaac Hayes born (1942) |
|
|
Raoul Kraushaar born (1908) |
|
|
Ron Jones records his score for the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Naked Now" (1987) |
|
|
Stelvio Cipriani born (1937) |
|
|
| August 21: |
Angelo Francesco Lavagnino died (1987) |
|
|
Basil Poledouris born (1945) |
|
|
Joe Strummer born (1952) |
|
|
Walter Schumann died (1958) |
|
|
| August 22: |
Bronislau Kaper begins recording his score for Ride, Vaquero! (1952) |
|
|
Bruce Broughton begins recording his score for This Girl for Hire (1983) |
|
|
John Williams begins recording his score for the Amazing Stories episode "The Mission" (1985) |
|
|
Johnny Green begins recording his score for Twilight of Honor (1963) |
|
|
| August 23: |
Alexandre Desplat born (1961) |
|
|
David Rose died (1990) |
|
|
Marvin Hatley died (1986) |
|
|
Willy Russell born (1947) |
|
|
| August 24: |
Jean-Michel Jarre born (1948) |
|
|
| August 25: |
Jack Nitzsche died (2000) |
|
|
John Williams begins recording his score for Bachelor Flat (1961) |
|
|
Leonard Bernstein born (1918) |
|
|
| August 26: |
Branford Marsalis born (1960) |
|
|
Fred Steiner's score for the Star Trek episode "Spock's Brain" is recorded (1968) |
|
|
Humphrey Searle born (1915) |
|
|
John Frizzell begins recording his score for Alien Resurrection (1997) |
|
|
Mark Snow born (1946) |
|
|
Ralph Vaughan Williams died (1958) |
|
|
| August 27: |
Bernard Herrmann records his score for The Alfred Hitchcock Hour episode "Nothing Ever Happens in Linvale" (1963) |
|
|
Craig Safan begins recording his score for Remo Williams: the Adventure Begins (1985) |
|
|
Dimitri Tiomkin begins recording his score to 36 Hours (1964) |
|
|
Johnny Mandel records his score for the Amazing Stories episode "One for the Road" (1985) |
|
|
Miles Goodman born (1949) |
|
|
| August 29: |
Anthony Adverse released in theaters (1936) |
|
|
Fred Steiner's score for the Star Trek episode "Charlie X" is recorded (1966) |
|
|
Miklos Rozsa begins recording his score for The Miniver Story (1950) |
|
|
Recording sessions begin for Richard Rodney Bennett's score for Sherlock Holmes in New York (1976) |
|
|
Victor Young begins recording his score to The Tall Men (1955) |
|
|
| August 30: |
Conrad Salinger born (1901) |
|
|
Emil Newman died (1984) |
|
|
Sol Kaplan's score for the Star Trek episode "The Doomsday Machine" is recorded (1967) |
|
|
| August 31: |
Alexander Courage's score for the Star Trek episode "The Naked Time" is recorded (1966) |
|
|
Recording sessions begin for Bronislau Kaper's score for The Swan (1955) |
|
|
The Sea Hawk is released in theaters (1940) |
|
