Hollywood Symphony Orchestra
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The Hollywood Symphony Orchestra (HSO) a is 75-member American
symphony orchestra
based in Los Angeles
, California
. Its artistic director and resident conductor is John Scott
. The HSO is dedicated to performing classic and world premiere movie scores, and comprises recording musicians from the Hollywood movie studios and Los Angeles concert scene.
Many of the musicians' names appear in the original recording liner notes of the movie scores presented on stage. Concerts often include a large massed choir from the Los Angeles area, bringing the population on stage to as many as 140 instrumentalists and singers.
" (1953) composed by Alfred Newman
conducting the Hollywood Symphony Orchestra (Varese Sarabande VSD 5295). The inaugural stage concerts of the HSO under the baton of John Scott
were on May 18 and October 7, 2006, at UCLA's Royce Hall and were produced by John Beal
and Peter Henton. Their first year, in addition to full programs of classic film scores from the 1930s through 2000s, the orchestra performed world premieres of music from "Memoirs of a Geisha
", "Antony and Cleopatra
", "Flags of Our Fathers
", "World Trade Center
", and "The Matrix
".
Composers represented in 2006 included Miklós Rózsa
, Erich Wolfgang Korngold
, John Williams
, Jerry Goldsmith
, Maurice Jarre
, Victor Young
, Dimitri Tiomkin
, Craig Armstrong, Clint Eastwood
, Henry Mancini
, Elmer Bernstein
, Dave Grusin
, Alex North
, John Scott
, Sergei Prokofiev
, Ralph Vaughan Williams
, Max Steiner
, Don Davis
, Ernest Gold, Bernard Herrman.
The first radio broadcast of an HSO concert was on August 20, 2006. Southern California's classical radio station, K-Mozart 105.1FM
, broadcast a one hour program containing portions of the inaugural concert by the Hollywood Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of conductor John Scott
.
In 2007, HSO President and Artistic Director John Scott returned to his native England. He skipped that year's season, having decided instead to compose a new score for the 1938 film "The Adventures of Robin Hood
," starring Erroll Flynn. In 2008, Scott decided to write an opera. He never returned to conduct the Hollywood Symphony Orchestra in live concerts.
Some musicians who have earned chairs in this orchestra are graduates of the Henry Mancini
Institute, American Youth Symphony, and Young Musicians Foundation. (See roster here)
, Emmy Award
and Grammy Award
winners and nominess, including Alan Bergman
, Marilyn Bergman
, Marilee Bradford, Bruce Broughton
, John Cacavas
, Daniel Carlin, Budd Carr, Alf Clausen
, Don Davis
, John Debney
, Allyn Ferguson
, Dan Foliart, Charles Fox
, Sid Ganis
, Billy Goldenberg
, Dave Grusin
, Ted Kotcheff
, Gary Le Mel, Michel Legrand
, John Morgan, Randy Newman
, Lennie Niehaus
, Basil Poledouris
(d), Sydney Pollack
, Nick Redman, Edye & Pete Rugolo
, Lalo Schifrin
, Richard Sherman, William Stromberg, Patrick Williams, Christopher Young
, Frank Yablans
, and Hans Zimmer
.
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
symphony orchestra
Orchestra
An orchestra is a sizable instrumental ensemble that contains sections of string, brass, woodwind, and percussion instruments. The term orchestra derives from the Greek ορχήστρα, the name for the area in front of an ancient Greek stage reserved for the Greek chorus...
based in Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...
, California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
. Its artistic director and resident conductor is John Scott
John Scott (composer)
John Scott , also known as Johnny Scott and Patrick John Scott, is a British composer and conductor. Scott has worked with some of the world's foremost producers and directors including Richard Donner, Norman J...
. The HSO is dedicated to performing classic and world premiere movie scores, and comprises recording musicians from the Hollywood movie studios and Los Angeles concert scene.
Many of the musicians' names appear in the original recording liner notes of the movie scores presented on stage. Concerts often include a large massed choir from the Los Angeles area, bringing the population on stage to as many as 140 instrumentalists and singers.
Background
Prior to 2006, this orchestra was primarily a recording orchestra, credited as far back in liner notes as "The RobeThe Robe (film)
The Robe is a 1953 American Biblical epic film that tells the story of a Roman military tribune who commands the unit that crucifies Jesus. The film was made by 20th Century Fox and is notable for being the first film released in the widescreen process CinemaScope.It was directed by Henry Koster...
" (1953) composed by Alfred Newman
Alfred Newman
Alfred Newman was an American composer, arranger, and conductor of music for films.In a career which spanned over forty years, Newman composed music for over two hundred films. He was one of the most respected film score composers of his time, and is today regarded as one of the greatest...
conducting the Hollywood Symphony Orchestra (Varese Sarabande VSD 5295). The inaugural stage concerts of the HSO under the baton of John Scott
John Scott (composer)
John Scott , also known as Johnny Scott and Patrick John Scott, is a British composer and conductor. Scott has worked with some of the world's foremost producers and directors including Richard Donner, Norman J...
were on May 18 and October 7, 2006, at UCLA's Royce Hall and were produced by John Beal
John Beal (composer)
John Beal is an American film composer working in Hollywood, California, and is notable for composing the music for numerous hit television series, such as Vega$ and Eight is Enough, as an orchestral conductor, composer of movie trailer music, and for his work with the Hollywood Symphony...
and Peter Henton. Their first year, in addition to full programs of classic film scores from the 1930s through 2000s, the orchestra performed world premieres of music from "Memoirs of a Geisha
Memoirs of a Geisha (film)
Memoirs of a Geisha is a 2005 film adaptation of the novel of the same name, produced by Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment and Spyglass Entertainment and by Douglas Wick's Red Wagon Productions. It was directed by Rob Marshall. It was released in the United States on December 9, 2005 by...
", "Antony and Cleopatra
Antony and Cleopatra (1972 film)
Antony and Cleopatra is a 1972 film adaptation of the play of the same name by William Shakespeare made by the Rank Organisation. It was directed by Charlton Heston and produced by Peter Snell from a screenplay by Federico De Urrutia and the director....
", "Flags of Our Fathers
Flags of Our Fathers (film)
is a 2006 American war film directed, co-produced and scored by Clint Eastwood and written by William Broyles, Jr. and Paul Haggis. It is based on the book of the same name written by James Bradley and Ron Powers about the Battle of Iwo Jima, the five Marines and one Navy Corpsman who were involved...
", "World Trade Center
World Trade Center (film)
World Trade Center is a 2006 American disaster-drama film directed by Oliver Stone and based on the September 11 attacks at the World Trade Center. It stars Nicolas Cage, Maria Bello, Michael Peña, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Michael Shannon. The film was shot from October 19, 2005 - February 10, 2006...
", and "The Matrix
The Matrix
The Matrix is a 1999 science fiction-action film written and directed by Larry and Andy Wachowski, starring Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano, and Hugo Weaving...
".
Composers represented in 2006 included Miklós Rózsa
Miklós Rózsa
Miklós Rózsa was a Hungarian-born composer trained in Germany , and active in France , England , and the United States , with extensive sojourns in Italy from 1953...
, Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Erich Wolfgang Korngold was an Austro-Hungarian film and romantic music composer. While his compositional style was considered well out of vogue at the time he died, his music has more recently undergone a reevaluation and a gradual reawakening of interest...
, John Williams
John Williams
John Towner Williams is an American composer, conductor, and pianist. In a career spanning almost six decades, he has composed some of the most recognizable film scores in the history of motion pictures, including the Star Wars saga, Jaws, Superman, the Indiana Jones films, E.T...
, Jerry Goldsmith
Jerry Goldsmith
Jerrald King Goldsmith was an American composer and conductor most known for his work in film and television scoring....
, Maurice Jarre
Maurice Jarre
Maurice-Alexis Jarre was a French composer and conductor.Although he composed several concert works, he is best known for his film scores, and is particularly known for his collaborations with film director David Lean. Jarre composed the scores to all of Lean's films since Lawrence of Arabia...
, Victor Young
Victor Young
Victor Young was an American composer, arranger, violinist and conductor. He was born in Chicago.-Biography:...
, Dimitri Tiomkin
Dimitri Tiomkin
Dimitri Zinovievich Tiomkin was a Russian-born Hollywood film score composer and conductor. He is considered "one of the giants of Hollywood movie music." Musically trained in Russia, he is best known for his westerns, "where his expansive, muscular style had its greatest impact." Tiomkin...
, Craig Armstrong, Clint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood
Clinton "Clint" Eastwood, Jr. is an American film actor, director, producer, composer and politician. Eastwood first came to prominence as a supporting cast member in the TV series Rawhide...
, Henry Mancini
Henry Mancini
Henry Mancini was an American composer, conductor and arranger, best remembered for his film and television scores. He won a record number of Grammy Awards , plus a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award posthumously in 1995...
, Elmer Bernstein
Elmer Bernstein
Elmer Bernstein was an American composer and conductor best known for his many film scores. In a career which spanned fifty years, he composed music for hundreds of film and television productions...
, Dave Grusin
Dave Grusin
David Grusin is an American composer, arranger and pianist. Grusin has composed many scores for feature films and television, and has won numerous awards for his soundtrack and record work, including an Academy award and 12 Grammys...
, Alex North
Alex North
Alex North was an American composer who wrote the first jazz-based film score and one of the first modernist scores written in Hollywood ....
, John Scott
John Scott (composer)
John Scott , also known as Johnny Scott and Patrick John Scott, is a British composer and conductor. Scott has worked with some of the world's foremost producers and directors including Richard Donner, Norman J...
, Sergei Prokofiev
Sergei Prokofiev
Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev was a Russian composer, pianist and conductor who mastered numerous musical genres and is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century...
, Ralph Vaughan Williams
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Ralph Vaughan Williams OM was an English composer of symphonies, chamber music, opera, choral music, and film scores. He was also a collector of English folk music and song: this activity both influenced his editorial approach to the English Hymnal, beginning in 1904, in which he included many...
, Max Steiner
Max Steiner
Max Steiner was an Austrian composer of music for theatre productions and films. He later became a naturalized citizen of the United States. Trained by the great classical music composers Brahms and Mahler, he was one of the first composers who primarily wrote music for motion pictures, and as...
, Don Davis
Don Davis (composer)
Donald Romain Davis is an American film score composer, conductor, and orchestrator. Best known for his work on The Matrix, he has worked on a variety of films, from horror to comedy.- Early life :...
, Ernest Gold, Bernard Herrman.
The first radio broadcast of an HSO concert was on August 20, 2006. Southern California's classical radio station, K-Mozart 105.1FM
KMZT-FM
KKGO is a commercial radio station located in Los Angeles, California, broadcasting on 105.1 FM. KKGO airs a country music format, branded as "Go Country 105"....
, broadcast a one hour program containing portions of the inaugural concert by the Hollywood Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of conductor John Scott
John Scott (composer)
John Scott , also known as Johnny Scott and Patrick John Scott, is a British composer and conductor. Scott has worked with some of the world's foremost producers and directors including Richard Donner, Norman J...
.
In 2007, HSO President and Artistic Director John Scott returned to his native England. He skipped that year's season, having decided instead to compose a new score for the 1938 film "The Adventures of Robin Hood
The Adventures of Robin Hood (film)
The Adventures of Robin Hood is a 1938 American swashbuckler film directed by Michael Curtiz and William Keighley. Filmed in Technicolor, the picture stars Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, and Claude Rains.-Plot:...
," starring Erroll Flynn. In 2008, Scott decided to write an opera. He never returned to conduct the Hollywood Symphony Orchestra in live concerts.
Educational outreach
According to its website, in addition to celebrating and preserving the work of Hollywood's master composers of the past, the HSO promotes the work of emerging Hollywood composers. As part of its educational program, the HSO also provides composers to lecture and participate in seminars at secondary and college level music and film programs, and is exploring ways to bring information the unique art form of film music to elementary students.Some musicians who have earned chairs in this orchestra are graduates of the Henry Mancini
Henry Mancini
Henry Mancini was an American composer, conductor and arranger, best remembered for his film and television scores. He won a record number of Grammy Awards , plus a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award posthumously in 1995...
Institute, American Youth Symphony, and Young Musicians Foundation. (See roster here)
Honorary advisors
The Honorary Advisors to the HSO are practically a "who's who" of the film, television and music industries, with Academy Award, Golden Globe AwardGolden Globe Award
The Golden Globe Award is an accolade bestowed by the 93 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign...
, Emmy Award
Emmy Award
An Emmy Award, often referred to simply as the Emmy, is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards and the Grammy Awards .A majority of Emmys are presented in various...
and Grammy Award
Grammy Award
A Grammy Award — or Grammy — is an accolade by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry...
winners and nominess, including Alan Bergman
Alan Bergman
Alan Bergman is an American lyricist and songwriter.-Life & career:Born in Brooklyn, New York, he studied at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and UCLA. His involvement in the entertainment industry began in the early 1950s as a director of children's television shows...
, Marilyn Bergman
Marilyn Bergman
Marilyn Bergman is a composer, songwriter and author.She was born Marilyn Keith in Brooklyn, New York and studied psychology and English at New York University...
, Marilee Bradford, Bruce Broughton
Bruce Broughton
Bruce Broughton is a film, video game, and television soundtrack composer who has composed several highly acclaimed soundtracks over his extensive career, including American music classics such as "Homeward Bound," "Silverado", "Tombstone," and wonderfully lyric music for "Miracle on 34th...
, John Cacavas
John Cacavas
John Cacavas is a composer and conductor probably best known for his television scores, notably Kojak, for which he was the chief composer, and for which he composed the second main title theme, used throughout the show's 5th and final season...
, Daniel Carlin, Budd Carr, Alf Clausen
Alf Clausen
Alf Clausen is an American film and television composer. He is best known for his work scoring many episodes of The Simpsons, of which he has been the sole composer since 1990...
, Don Davis
Don Davis (composer)
Donald Romain Davis is an American film score composer, conductor, and orchestrator. Best known for his work on The Matrix, he has worked on a variety of films, from horror to comedy.- Early life :...
, John Debney
John Debney
John C. Debney is an American film composer. He received an Academy Award nomination for his score for Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ...
, Allyn Ferguson
Allyn Ferguson
Allyn Malcolm Ferguson Jr. was an American composer, best known for the themes for 1970s television programs Barney Miller and Charlie's Angels, which he co-wrote with Jack Elliott...
, Dan Foliart, Charles Fox
Charles Fox (composer)
Charles Ira Fox is an American composer for film and television. His most heard compositions are probably the "love themes" , and the dramatic theme music to ABC's Wide World of Sports and the original Monday Night Football.....
, Sid Ganis
Sid Ganis
Sidney Ganis is a Greek-American motion picture executive and producer who has produced such films as Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo, Big Daddy, Mr. Deeds, The Master of Disguise and Akeelah and the Bee. On August 23, 2005 he was elected President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences...
, Billy Goldenberg
Billy Goldenberg
William Leon "Billy" Goldenberg is an American composer most known for his work on television and film....
, Dave Grusin
Dave Grusin
David Grusin is an American composer, arranger and pianist. Grusin has composed many scores for feature films and television, and has won numerous awards for his soundtrack and record work, including an Academy award and 12 Grammys...
, Ted Kotcheff
Ted Kotcheff
Ted Kotcheff , sometimes credited as William Kotcheff or William T. Kotcheff, is a Canadian film and television director, who is well known for his work on several high-profile British television productions and as a director of films such as First Blood.-Early life:Kotcheff was born William...
, Gary Le Mel, Michel Legrand
Michel Legrand
Michel Jean Legrand is a French musical composer, arranger, conductor, and pianist...
, John Morgan, Randy Newman
Randy Newman
Randall Stuart "Randy" Newman is an American singer-songwriter, arranger, composer, and pianist who is known for his mordant pop songs and for film scores....
, Lennie Niehaus
Lennie Niehaus
Lennie Niehaus is an American alto saxophonist, arranger, and composer on the West Coast jazz scene. He has played with the Stan Kenton big band, and various other jazz bands on the West Coast of the U.S. Niehaus has arranged and composed for motion pictures, including several produced by Clint...
, Basil Poledouris
Basil Poledouris
Vassilis Konstantinos "Basil" Poledouris was a Greek-American music composer who concentrated on the scores for films and television shows...
(d), Sydney Pollack
Sydney Pollack
Sydney Irwin Pollack was an American film director, producer and actor. Pollack studied with Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York City, where he later taught acting...
, Nick Redman, Edye & Pete Rugolo
Pete Rugolo
Pietro "Pete" Rugolo was an Italian-born jazz composer and arranger.-Life and career:Rugolo was born in San Piero Patti, Sicily, Italy. His family emigrated to the United States in 1920 and settled in Santa Rosa, California...
, Lalo Schifrin
Lalo Schifrin
Lalo Schifrin is an Argentine composer, pianist and conductor. He is best known for his film and TV scores, such as the "Theme from Mission: Impossible". He has received four Grammy Awards and six Oscar nominations...
, Richard Sherman, William Stromberg, Patrick Williams, Christopher Young
Christopher Young
Christopher Young is an American music composer for both film and television.Many of his music compositions are for horror films, including Hellraiser, Tales from the Hood, A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge, Urban Legend, and Drag Me to Hell...
, Frank Yablans
Frank Yablans
Frank Yablans is an American film producer and screenwriter The son of a Brooklyn cab driver and brother to fellow film producer Irwin Yablans, Yablans' first employers in the film business included Warner Bros., The Walt Disney Company and Filmways...
, and Hans Zimmer
Hans Zimmer
Hans Florian Zimmer is a German film composer and music producer. He has composed music for over 100 films, including critically acclaimed film scores for The Lion King , Crimson Tide , The Thin Red Line , Gladiator , The Dark Knight and Inception .Zimmer spent the early part of his career in the...
.
Organization
- President, Artistic Director, John ScottJohn Scott (composer)John Scott , also known as Johnny Scott and Patrick John Scott, is a British composer and conductor. Scott has worked with some of the world's foremost producers and directors including Richard Donner, Norman J...
- Vice President, Hilary Mackendrick
- Secretary/Treasurer, Gary Dohner
- General Manager/Producer, John BealJohn Beal (composer)John Beal is an American film composer working in Hollywood, California, and is notable for composing the music for numerous hit television series, such as Vega$ and Eight is Enough, as an orchestral conductor, composer of movie trailer music, and for his work with the Hollywood Symphony...
- Producer/Director, Peter Henton
- Orchestra Manger, Robert Shulgold
Recordings
- "The RobeThe Robe (film)The Robe is a 1953 American Biblical epic film that tells the story of a Roman military tribune who commands the unit that crucifies Jesus. The film was made by 20th Century Fox and is notable for being the first film released in the widescreen process CinemaScope.It was directed by Henry Koster...
" (1953) composed by Alfred NewmanAlfred NewmanAlfred Newman was an American composer, arranger, and conductor of music for films.In a career which spanned over forty years, Newman composed music for over two hundred films. He was one of the most respected film score composers of his time, and is today regarded as one of the greatest...
conducting the Hollywood Symphony Orchestra (Varese Sarabande VSD 5295) - "Stravinsky: Octet, Septet/Scott: Wind in the Willows" Hollywood Symphony Orchestra, conducted by John ScottJohn Scott (composer)John Scott , also known as Johnny Scott and Patrick John Scott, is a British composer and conductor. Scott has worked with some of the world's foremost producers and directors including Richard Donner, Norman J...
(Hollywood Symphony R 1093139) - "A Study in TerrorA Study in TerrorA Study in Terror is a 1965 British thriller film directed by James Hill and starring John Neville as Sherlock Holmes and Donald Houston as Dr. Watson...
" (1965) composed by John ScottJohn Scott (composer)John Scott , also known as Johnny Scott and Patrick John Scott, is a British composer and conductor. Scott has worked with some of the world's foremost producers and directors including Richard Donner, Norman J...
conducting the Hollywood Symphony Orchestra (HSO 333) - "MasqueradeMasquerade (1988 film)Masquerade is a 1988 film; a psychological thriller starring Rob Lowe and Meg Tilly. It is directed by Bob Swaim.-Plot:The story centres on the unfolding relationship between Hamptons heiress Olivia and yacht skipper Tim who are introduced soon after the death of Olivia's mother, which has left...
" (2004) composed by John BarryJohn Barry (composer)John Barry Prendergast, OBE was an English conductor and composer of film music. He is best known for composing the soundtracks for 12 of the James Bond films between 1962 and 1987...
conducting the Hollywood Symphony Orchestra (Prometheus - ASIN B00009OOPQ ) - "Martinis with Mancini: The Henry ManciniHenry ManciniHenry Mancini was an American composer, conductor and arranger, best remembered for his film and television scores. He won a record number of Grammy Awards , plus a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award posthumously in 1995...
Songbook" - the Hollywood Symphony Orchestra (Boomerang - B00000BMYV) - Hollywood Symphony Orchestra: "Star Wars" (Big Ear Music R 413593)
- Hollywood Symphony Orchestra: Music Inspired by "Burn the Floor" (Big Ear Music R 477969)
- Hollywood Symphony Orchestra: Musical Tribute to James Bond 007 (Big Ear Music R 450599)
- "Escape to VictoryEscape to VictoryEscape to Victory, known simply as Victory in North America, is a 1981 film about Allied prisoners of war who are interned in a German prison camp during World War II...
" (1981) (score released 2006) composed by Bill ContiBill ContiWilliam "Bill" Conti is an American film music composer who is frequently the conductor at the Academy Awards ceremony.-Early life and career:...
conducting the Hollywood Symphony Orchestra (Prometheus - B000CQJYFE) - "The Swarm" (1978) (score released 2004) composed by Jerry GoldsmithJerry GoldsmithJerrald King Goldsmith was an American composer and conductor most known for his work in film and television scoring....
conducting the Hollywood Symphony Orchestra (Prometheus - B00009OOPT)
Further reading about film music
For more information about people mentioned in this article and more:- The Journal of Film Music http://www.ifms-jfm.org/
- Sound and Vision: 60 Years of Motion Picture Soundtracks by Jon Burlingame
- Music for the Movies by Tony Thomas
- Double Life: The Autobiography of Miklos Rozsa, Composer in the Golden Years of Hollywood by Miklos Rozsa
- Jerry Goldsmith (Film Music Masters) by Karlin Tilford
- Jerry Goldsmith: An American Film Institute Seminar on his work (Seminars / American Film Institute) by Jerry Goldsmith
- TV's Biggest Hits: The Story of Television Themes from "Dragnet" to "Friends" by Jon Burlingame
- The Last Prodigy: A Biography of Erich Wolfgang Korngold by Brendan G. Carroll
- Film Music Notebook by Elmer Bernstein
- On the Track by Fred Karlin and Rayburn Wright
- Elmer Bernstein: An American Film Institute Seminar on his work (Seminars / American Film Institute) by Elmer Bernstein
- Alex North, Film Composer: A Biography, With Musical Analyses of a Streetcar Named Desire, Spartacus, the Misfits, Under the Volcano, and Prizzi's Honor by Sanya Shoilevska Henderson and John Williams
- S. Prokofiev: Autobiography, Articles, Reminiscences by Sergei Prokofiev, Rose Prokofieva, and S. Shlifstein
- Dimitri Tiomkin: A Portrait by Christopher Palmer
- Please Don't Hate Me by Dimitri Tiomkin
- Film Music: A Neglected Art : A Critical Study of Music in Films by Roy M. Prendergast
- Reel Music: Exploring 100 Years of Film Music by Roger Hickman
- The Invisible Art of Film Music by Laurence E. MacDonald
- Did They Mention the Music?: The Autobiography of Henry Mancini by Henry Mancini
- Sounds and Scores : A Practical Guide to Professional Orchestration by Henry Mancini
Resources and News
- Movie music to receive top billing at Royce Hall - Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles TimesThe Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California, since 1881. It was the second-largest metropolitan newspaper in circulation in the United States in 2008 and the fourth most widely distributed newspaper in the country....
- Los Angeles, Calif., Author: Lynne Heffley, Date: May 15, 2006, Section: Calendar; Part E, page E3; Calendar Desk, Document Types: Performance Review-Favorable - Music critic Jim SvejdaJim SvejdaJim Svejda is American music commentator and critic on the FM radio station KUSC. He is the host of the weekly syndicated classical music program The Record Shelf, which is broadcast on many NPR stations, and a local nightly classical program, Classical Music with Jim Svejda, as well as the host...
of FM radio station KUSCKUSCKUSC is a listener-supported classical music radio station broadcasting from downtown Los Angeles, California, USA. KUSC is owned and operated by the University of Southern California, which also operates student-run KXSC and San Francisco's classical station KDFC...
devoted an entire afternoon (5 hours) to the music of John Scott and the Hollywood Symphony Orchestra on May 16, 2006. - Orchestra debuts with a film-score sampler Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles TimesThe Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California, since 1881. It was the second-largest metropolitan newspaper in circulation in the United States in 2008 and the fourth most widely distributed newspaper in the country....
- Los Angeles, Calif. Author: Richard S. Ginell Date: May 20, 2006 - Start Page: E.20 Section: Calendar; Part E; Calendar Desk
- Document Types: Performance Review-Favorable
- The Hollywood Symphony Orchestra – A Concert Honoring Classical and Contemporary Symphonic Film Music - May, 2006, London Splash by Nicole R. Janowicz LINK
- From Silver Screen to Concert Hall Overture, Vol. 86, June 2006 cover and pp 14–15.
- Big Hollywood Debut:
- The Debut Performance of the Hollywood Symphony Orchestra
- ASCAP Playback Magazine - STEPPING OUT, Summer 2006 page 89 Online Link
- Hollywood Symphony Plays Music of the Movies September 2006, Not Born Yesterday (newspaper) p. 14
- Orchestra To Perform Film Score Selections October 5, 2006, UCLA Bruin Newspaper, Arts & Entertainment, p. 1 Online Link
- Musica y Cine Mano a Mano October 7 LA Opinion, Espectaculos, p 6B
- Hollywood Symphony Stages Second Concert Scott Conducts Eclectic Program at UCLA. By film music historian, author Jon Burlingame, published October 11, 2006 Film Music Society
- The Hollywood Symphony Orchestra Performs World Premieres Along With Classic Film Music Date:(10/09/2006) Soundtrack.net
- A Big Night for Big Film Scores
- ASCAP Playback Magazine Volume 14, Issue 1 p. 89 - FACES AND PLACES: FILM & TV Winter 2007 Online Link
- Hollywood Symphony Orchestra WORLD PREMIERES of Music from Current Academy Contenders Along with Music from Classic Films, Celebrity Society Magazine, November/December 2006 p. 31
- Hot Shot Hollywood Symphony Orchestra's Gala Reception, Society Social Calendar Magazine, January/February 2007 issue, p 42.