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Oct 28, 2010 - 1:36 PM
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Mark Ford
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Mysteries solved, from Bruce Broughton's FB page:
"To save you all time, here's the photo line-up: Seated L to R: Franz Waxman, Dimitri Tiomkin, Meredith Willson, Bramwell Coles, Earl Lawrence, Wm. Grant Still. Standing L to R: Abe Meyer, Leith Stevens, Wm. Broughton, Anthony Collins, John Green, Miklos Rosza, Victor Young, Werner Heymann, Leo Shuken, Arthur Bergh, Alex Steinert, Robert Emmett Dolan, Frank Skinner, Wilbur Hatch, Carlos Morales, Louis R. Lipstone
The reason for the photo: Meredith Willson was an admirer of the Salvation Army and its music. Bramwell Coles (pictured) ran the SA's International Music Dept in London; my grandfather ran the one on the west coast. On a visit to LA, Willson organized a lunch at the Friar's Club to honor Coles, inviting all the composers. So we can thank the Music Man for this only photo of these composers together."
So his grandfather is the gentleman standing in the Salvation Army uniform.
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Oct 28, 2010 - 2:47 PM
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manderley
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.....Just in from Bruce Broughton's FB page:
"To save you all time, here's the photo line-up: Seated L to R: Franz Waxman, Dimitri Tiomkin, Meredith Willson, Bramwell Coles, Earl Lawrence, Wm. Grant Still. Standing L to R: Abe Meyer, Leith Stevens, Wm. Broughton, Anthony Collins, John Green, Miklos Rosza, Victor Young, Werner Heymann, Leo Shuken, Arthur Bergh, Alex Steinert, Robert Emmett Dolan, Frank Skinner, Wilbur Hatch, Carlos Morales, Louis R. Lipstone".....
This is a fascinating picture.
Mark Ford.....does Broughton give an explanation of the meeting and why they were there?
At first, when I looked at the photo this seemed to be a very eclectic mix of composers/music people.
Then it struck me that this is a meeting of "downtown Hollywood" composers. Other than Johnny Green, who was everywhere in the mid-40s, there is no obvious representation of MGM in Culver City. There is also no obvious representation of Fox in Beverly Hills.
What we have here seems to be music people working in 1946 at studios located in the heart of Hollywood---from Paramount (including Young, Shuken, Rozsa, Dolan, Lipstone) .....RKO, next door (Collins, Stevens, Tiomkin---probably working on IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE).....Goldwyn/United Artists (Heymann), about a mile away.....and Universal (Rozsa, Stevens, Skinner), just over the hill.....as well as the radio networks nearby, CBS Radio Square, at Sunset and Gower---and NBC Radio City, at Sunset and Vine (Hatch, Willson). Waxman would have been at Warners---also over the Hollywood Hills, and probably met up with Frank Skinner at Universal and drove him over. 
I wonder if the composers had lent their names/services to a radio broadcast honoring/raising money for The Salvation Army.
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Is Bernard Herrmann sitting 5 from the left?
No, I don't think it is Bernard Herrmann...
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Rozsa admired Victor Young's enormous melodic gifts and warm personality. If he had any grudge among this group, it would be for Paramount's music director Louis Lipstone, who famously thought Rozsa's Double Indemnity belonged in Carnegie Hall.
Well, he wasn't exactly keen on Tiomkin either - not caring for his music, or his "methods"...
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