Bruce Broughton

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Bruce Broughton (born March 8, 1945 in Los Angeles, California, U.S.) is an American composer, who writes music in every medium, from theatrical releases and television feature films to concert tours and computer games. He is one of the most versatile composers working today.

His first major film score, for the Lawrence Kasdan Western Silverado, brought him an Oscar nomination. His very next project, a classically styled score for Barry Levinson's Young Sherlock Holmes, earned a Grammy nomination for the soundtrack album.

With more than twenty Emmy nominations, Broughton has received a record 10, most recently for HBO's Warm Springs. He's also won Emmys for Eloise at Christmastime; Eloise at The Plaza; Glory & Honor; O Pioneers!; Tiny Toon Adventures Theme Song; The First Olympics, Athens 1896, Part I; Dallas: "Ewing Blues"; Dallas: "The Letter"; and Buck Rogers in the 25th Century: "The Satyr".

Major motion picture credits include Lost in Space; Tombstone; Miracle on 34th Street; Silverado; Carried Away; Baby's Day Out; The Presidio; Narrow Margin; All I Want for Christmas; The Monster Squad; Harry and the Hendersons; Krippendorf's Tribe; Honey, I Blew Up The Kid; The Boy Who Could Fly; the Disney animated features, The Rescuers Down Under and Bambi II, and the two Homeward Bound adventures. He conducted and supervised the recording of Gershwin's "Rhapsody In Blue" for Fantasia 2000.

Numerous TV credits include the main titles for JAG, Tiny Toon Adventures, and Dinosaurs, as well as scores for Amazing Stories, Quincy, and How the West Was Won. Movies for television include Lucy, Bobbie's Girl, and O Pioneers!; and the miniseries Roughing It, The Blue and the Gray, and the Emmy-nominated True Women.

His score for Heart of Darkness was the first orchestral score composed for a video game.

He has also penned many scores for Disney attractions such as: The Timekeeper, Canada, Ellen's Energy Adventure, Honey, I Shrunk the Audience, and Spaceship Earth.

An accomplished composer of concert music, Broughton has conducted and recorded numerous original works, including "Mixed Elements," commissioned by and premiered at the Sunflower Music Festival, "Modular Music", composed for the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra; "The Magic Horn", commissioned jointly by the Chicago, Seattle and National Symphonies for the Magic Circle Mime Company; "Excursions", commissioned and premiered by The United States Air Force Band in Washington, D.C.; "Fanfares, Marches, Hymns and Finale", commissioned by The Bay Brass; "English Music" for Horn and Strings; "And on the Sixth Day" for oboe and orchestra; "Tyvek Wood", commissioned by the Debussy Trio; a piccolo concerto; a tuba concerto; several solo works for winds; numerous chamber works, and the list goes on.

As a conductor, his recordings of Miklós Rózsa's scores for Ivanhoe and Julius Caesar for Intrada records, performed by the Sinfonia of London shortly before the composer's death, have received rave reviews, as has his recording of Bernard Herrmann's riveting score for Jason and the Argonauts.

Broughton is a board member of ASCAP, a governor of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, a former governor of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, and past president of The Society of Composers and Lyricists. He has taught film composition in the Advanced Film Music Studies program at USC and is a frequent lecturer at UCLA.

Reprinted with permission from Bruce Broughton's official website.

Emmy Awards

• Warm Springs
• Eloise at Christmastime
• Eloise at the Plaza
• Glory and Honor
• O Pioneers!
• Tiny Toon Adventures Theme song
• The First Olympics, Athens 1896, Part I
• Dallas: Ewing Blues
• Dallas: The Letter
• Buck Rogers: The Satyr

Emmy nominations

• The Dive from Clausen's Pier
• First Monday Main title theme
• True Women
• Jag Main title theme
• Tiny Toon Adventures Theme song
• The Old Man and the Sea
• Dallas: The Lost Child
• Dallas: The Search
• Two Marriages
• The Blue and the Gray, Part Two
• Quincy: Quincy's Wedding Part Two
• Killjoy
• Hawaii Five-O

Academy Award Nomination

• Silverado

Grammy Nomination

• Young Sherlock Holmes

Saturn Award

• Young Sherlock Holmes

References and External links

• Bruce Broughton's official website
• Bruce Broughton at the Internet Movie Database
• Sound and Vision by Jon Burlingame, Billboard Books, 2000, p. 49