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Elmer Bernstein anniversary

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#1 chuckster312

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Posted 18 August 2012 - 10:49 PM

Eight years already...

Here's a score that would sound most likely at home in a Captain America film:


If you put John Williams in a dryer, you get Jerry Goldsmith! You get the downside version!


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Posted 19 August 2012 - 02:33 AM

Haha, I thought this thread was about West Side Story.
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1. Nightwatch/Killer By Night - Johnny Williams and Quincy Jones 2. Diamond Head/Gone with the Wave - Johnny Williams/Lalo Schifrin 3. Mass - Leonard Bernstein 4. Bernstein with the New York Philharmonic - Leonard Bernstein

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Posted 19 August 2012 - 09:33 AM

I have no idea who Bernstein West is, but yeah -- Elmer Bernstein was da man!

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Posted 19 August 2012 - 11:15 AM

I have no idea who Bernstein West is, but yeah -- Elmer Bernstein was da man!


That was his nickname in order to differentiate him from Lenny. Lenny was Bernstein East while Elmer was Bernstein West.

If you put John Williams in a dryer, you get Jerry Goldsmith! You get the downside version!


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Posted 19 August 2012 - 11:50 AM


I have no idea who Bernstein West is, but yeah -- Elmer Bernstein was da man!


That was his nickname in order to differentiate him from Lenny. Lenny was Bernstein East while Elmer was Bernstein West.


Oh. I thought it was a play on the fact that Elmer did all those WEST-erns.





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