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Newman said he was always happiest as a conductor: "I studied music composition and counterpoint because I wanted to be a good conductor." [13] In 1930, songwriter and composer Irving Berlin invited him to Hollywood to conduct his score for the film Reaching for the Moon. [13]
Newman was highly regarded as a conductor, and arranged and conducted many scores by other composers, including George Gershwin, Charles Chaplin, and Irving Berlin.
- March 17, 1900
- February 17, 1970
2013 marks the 80th anniversary of noted Hollywood composer, arranger and conductor Alfred Newman creating the iconic fanfare theme for Twentieth Century Films which was renamed Twentieth Century-Fox in 1935.
The legacy of Alfred Newman and his influence on the language of music for the cinema is practically unmatched by anyone in Hollywood history. As an executive, he was hard but fair. As a mentor to his staff he was revered. The orchestras under his baton delighted in his abilities as a conductor.
Apr 16, 2011 · He became the pianist for star Grace La Rue and her show, Hitchy-Koo in 1917. Many times he would conduct certain performances. His conducting led to becoming a music director on Broadway at the young age of seventeen.
Dec 15, 2014 · Newman began his career as a piano-playing child prodigy in New Haven, Conn., and, throughout the 1920s, as the hottest young conductor on Broadway (conducting musicals by the likes of Richard Rodgers, George Gershwin, Cole Porter and Jerome Kern).
Newman was highly regarded as a conductor, and arranged and conducted many scores by other composers, including George Gershwin, Charles Chaplin, and Irving Berlin. He also conducted the music for many film adaptations of Broadway musicals (having worked on Broadway for ten years before coming to Hollywood), as well as many original Hollywood ...
