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- David Louis Newman (born March 11, 1954) is an American composer and conductor known particularly for his film scores. In a career spanning more than thirty years, he has composed music for nearly 100 feature films, as well as the 1997 and 1998 versions of the 20th Century Fox fanfare.
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David Louis Newman (born March 11, 1954) is an American composer and conductor known particularly for his film scores. In a career spanning more than thirty years, he has composed music for nearly 100 feature films, as well as the 1997 and 1998 versions of the 20th Century Fox fanfare.
DAVID NEWMAN is one of today’s most accomplished creators of music for film. In his 25-year career, he has scored over 100 films, ranging from War of the Roses, Matilda, Bowfinger and Heathers, to the more recent The Spirit, and Serenity, Behaving Badly and Tarzan.
Dec 17, 2021 · The Oscar-nominee given the job of arranging the music in the director's $100 million budget revisioning of a classic has 'West Side Story' in his blood.
- How did you get involved with the American Youth Symphony? I grew up in Los Angeles and I played in the American Youth Symphony from when I was about 16 until maybe 23 or 24 years old.
- How does the American Youth Symphony nurture young musicians? It’s a place where talented kids from the ages of 14 to 27 come together every weekend and rehearse, with the idea of performing the standard classical music repertoire.
- Before the Elfman Project, AYS spent three years exploring the music of film composer Jerry Goldsmith. So is film music now considered part of the “standard classical repertoire”?
- I understand that film music preservation is a big passion of yours. Why is this such an issue? Generally after the music is recorded it can be very hard to find where the scores went.
Dec 17, 2021 · A versatile composer, Newman is at home writing for comedies, dramas, and animated films, and his most recent project, overseeing orchestral music for Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story, offered the incredible opportunity to revisit Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim’s beloved score.
Dec 9, 2021 · The Credits spoke to composer David Newman, who acted as orchestrator and arranger on West Side Story, about his personal history with the musical, and how he worked to preserve Bernstein’s genius in this new incarnation.
David Louis Newman (born March 11, 1954) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, composer and conductor. He is known for his movie scores. In his career more than thirty years, he has composed music for nearly 100 feature movies.
