Elmer Bernstein

Mark Swed reviews the Los Angeles Philharmonic's contribution to the Pacific Standard Time with a concert of classic Hollywood film music conducted by Thomas Wilkins....

"This Is Ireland," is a St. Patrick's Day celebration that features authentic Irish theatrical, musical performances at UCLA's Royce Hall. This is set to redefine St. Patrick's Day celebrations in Los Angeles. Some celebrity guest performers include actor...

Louis B. Mayer warned anyone who made a movie at MGM: "Be smart, but never show it." The still-subversive thrill of "Sweet Smell of Success" — an independent production released through United Artists — is that it's unabashedly smart in every...

For the first two-thirds of their careers, the producing/directing/writing team of Ethan and Joel Coen stuck to original screenplays. (More or less: “O Brother, Where Art Thou?â€� claims to be based on “The Odyssey,â€� but isn't. â...

The Los Angeles Philharmonic announces it ambitious 2011-12 season with music director Gustavo Dudamel...

Though Alex North ushered in a completely new sound in American film music, he wasn't a Young Turk when he arrived in Hollywood 60 years ago to pen the groundbreaking jazz-influenced score for "A Streetcar Named Desire." He was nearly 40 at the time,...

COSTA MESA — Richard Kaufman's life between his beginnings as a musically inclined 7-year-old to today is a showcase of many accomplishments. This week, the Pacific Symphony is celebrating one of them: his 20-year tenure as its principal pops...

"The end of the old West and the beginning of the new frontier." That was the inspiration for Los Angeles designer Juan Carlos Obando's spring collection shown Friday night in New York. When Elmer Bernstein's theme song from "The Magnificent......

“The Magnificent Seven” came out in 1960, and AMC will salute the Western's 50th anniversary with a showing at 8 p.m. Saturday. This hugely entertaining remake of “Seven Samurai” features Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Eli Wallach,...

Mitchell Lurie, a world-renowned clarinetist and clarinet teacher who taught for many years at USC and the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, has died. He was 86. Lurie, who had been in ill health in recent years, died of pneumonia Monday at his...

A weekend of riches in Luxembourg City LUXEMBOURG CITY OK, so it isn't Paris. This city -- one of two European Cultural Capitals for 2007 and capital of the richest per-capita-income country on the planet -- is pretty nice. Like all worthwhile...

Mark O'Connor sat in the small theater at UCLA as three earnest young music students -- a violinist, a cellist and a pianist -- determinedly worked through one movement of his Piano Trio No. 1, a piece commissioned and recorded by the Eroica Trio, one...