Oscar winner helped modernize film music
By JON BURLINGAME
(c) 2008 FilmMusicSociety.org
Leonard Rosenman, a two-time Oscar-winning composer who was credited with helping to modernize film music in the 1950s and '60s, died Tuesday of a heart attack at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital
in
Rosenman composed the scores for about four dozen films including the James Dean classics "East of Eden" and "Rebel Without a Cause," as well as such
science-fiction films as "Fantastic Voyage" and "Beneath the Planet of the
Apes" and period pieces including "A Man Called Horse."
He won back-to-back Oscars in 1975 and 1976 for adapting the classical music
of "Barry Lyndon" and the Woody Guthrie songs of "Bound for Glory." He also
received Oscar nominations for the original music of the mid-1980s films
"Cross Creek" and "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home" and a Golden Globe
nomination for his music for the 1978 animated version of "The Lord of the
Rings."
Click here for more of Jon Burlingame's report on Leonard Rosenman.
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