Previous posts for April 4th may be found here: Elmer Bernstein (2019), Stephen Storace (2020), Sheku Kanneh-Mason (2021), Pierre Monteux; Eugène Bozza (2022), Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli (2023), Arthur Murray (2024), and Hans Richter (2025)
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Elmer Bernstein (4 April 1922 – 8 August 2004) was a hugely prolific and successful film composer and conductor. His credits include over 150 films (The Tenth Commandments, To Kill a Mockingbird, Ghostbusters, Animal House), many TV shows, and Broadway musicals.
On and On
In total, Bernstein wrote 2½ hours of music for The Ten Commandments, which proved a massive hit and cemented his status as a top score composer. – Wikipedia
A film by Cecil B. DeMille
Has quite a lot of time to fill,
And Elmer Bernstein showed his powers
By backgrounding those epic hours.
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