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Born in New York of Ukrainian immigrant parents on April 4, , he was originally destined for a career in classical music. Encouraged by Aaron Copland, he undertook composition studies with several important teachers including Roger Sessions and Stefan Wolpe. Elmer Bernstein talks about his childhood, piano studies, and how his musical improvisations led him to Aaron Copland.
World War II intervened, and the young composer got his first taste of writing music for drama by working on radio shows in the Army Air Force. When the war ended, he returned to the highbrow world of classical piano, but continued to dabble in radio scoring for the United Nations and such legendary radio dramatists as Norman Corwin. His break came in when writer Millard Lampell, an old service buddy, convinced producer Sidney Buchman to hire the novice composer on a football movie he had written.
Elmer Bernstein explains how he got his first film assignment through a combination of luck and timing. The next year, his music for the Joan Crawford thriller, Sudden Fear, attracted critical attention. However, by , he found himself virtually unemployable, reduced to doing B-movies like Robot Monster and Cat Women of the Moon. Bernstein wound up working as a rehearsal pianist for the ballet sequences in the film version of Oklahoma!
A studio music executive, taking pity on Bernstein, introduced him to Cecil B. De Mille, who was then shooting The Ten Commandments and who needed ancient-sounding music for dances in the film. Eventually, Victor Young—who had originally been signed to write the dramatic music—dropped out due to health reasons, and DeMille replaced the ailing composer with Bernstein. Elmer Bernstein remembers his first meeting with Cecil B. Other people used jazz in films before, but never so thorough-going or so violently.
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