Jon Burlingame

Jon Burlingame is one of the nation's leading writers on the subject of music for films and television. He writes regularly for The New York Times and Daily Variety, and has written for such other publications as The Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, The Hollywood Reporter, Premiere and Emmy. He is the author of three books: Sound and Vision: 60 Years of Motion Picture Soundtracks (2000), a look at film composers and movie soundtracks through the years; TV's Biggest Hits (1996), a history of American television scoring; and For the Record (1997), about Hollywood studio musicians. Burlingame teaches film-music history at the University of Southern California and has made appearances on, or contributed music commentaries to, many DVDs, including King Kong (on the music of Max Steiner), The Magnificent Seven (Elmer Bernstein), The Pink Panther (Henry Mancini), The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Ennio Morricone), The Song of Bernadette (Alfred Newman), The High and the Mighty (Dimitri Tiomkin) and others. He has also written program notes for film-music concerts in locations as diverse as Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, the Hollywood Bowl and the Walt Disney Concert Hall. He also wrote a five-part series on movie music, The Score with producer Phil Ramone, for Trio cable.