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 Bruce Broughton, a composer who works in many styles and eclectic venues, is best known for film scores such as Silverado, Tombstone, Lost in Space, The Presidio, Miracle on 34th Street, the Homeward Bound adventures and Harry and The Hendersons, his television themes to JAG, Dinosaurs and Steven Spielberg’s Tiny Toon Adventures, TV mini-series (Roughing It, The Blue and Gray, True Women), TV movies (Glory and Honor, O Pioneers!), as well as countless episodes of TV series such as Dallas, Quincy, First Monday and Hawaii Five-O.
He has been nominated for an Oscar, a Grammy and twenty Emmys, having won the latter award seven times. He has composed music for many of the Disney theme park attractions throughout the world, and wrote the first orchestral score for a CD-ROM game, Heart of Darkness. He conducted and supervised the recording of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue for Fantasia 2000, and has recorded critically acclaimed performances of classic film scores such as Miklos Rozsa’s Ivanhoe and Julius Caesar, as well as Bernard Herrmann’s Jason and the Argonauts. As a composer of concert music, he has composed a popular tuba concerto, a piccolo concerto, Modular Music and Modular Music II for the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, the English Music for Horn and Strings, and the children’s fantasy The Magic Horn for narrator and orchestra. His Masters of Space and Time was jointly commissioned by the American Brass Band Association and the British Open Championship, and he recently recorded his Fanfares, Marches, Hymns & Finale with The Bay Brass, the ensemble that commissioned it.
Broughton is a past president of The Society of Composers and Lyricists, and has served as a governor on the boards of both the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. He has taught film composition at the University of Southern California and has lectured at UCLA.
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