Lee Holdridge

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Lee Elwood Holdridge (born March 3, 1944 in Port-au-Prince , Haiti ) is an American composer who mainly composes for television films and television series . His best known works are Beastmaster - The Liberator , Splash - A Maiden on the Hook and Beauty and the Beast .

Life

Lee Holdridge was born in Haiti to the American botanist Leslie Holdridge and a Puerto Rican . However, Holdridge grew up in Costa Rica and began to be interested in the violin at the age of ten , which is why he took music lessons. After only five years he was enthusiastic about the idea of ​​composing himself, so he asked his parents to send him to his aunt and uncle in Boston so that he could study music there. And there he then studied privately with Henry Lasker . And after he composed at the age of 18 years, his first piano piece, he went to New York City , where he at college Nicolas Flagello studied who it later because of his own work on the film drama Doctor Zhivago , conducted Maurice Jarre , for Film composition brought. However, he was supposed to work for some pop artists on Broadway and RCA Records before he was hired by Neil Diamond for his song Holly, Holy . He brought him to Los Angeles and after several gold and platinum albums together, they composed the music for Die Möwe Jonathan .

Holdridge sees his musical work strongly influenced by classical composers such as Béla Bartók , Dmitri Dmitrijewitsch Schostakowitsch and Ralph Vaughan Williams as well as by other film composers such as Erich Wolfgang Korngold , Franz Waxman , Jerry Goldsmith and Ennio Morricone . And after already writing shorter operas , Holdridge plans to compose an epic opera one day.

For the recording of his music for Beauty and the Beast were Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra in 1992 with the Grammy Award excellent.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1973: Jonathan the Seagull (Jonathan Livingston Seagull)
  • 1973: Jeremy
  • 1974: Skyway to Death
  • 1976: Gemini Man (Riding with Death)
  • 1976: Mustang, Bear and Hunter (Mustang Country)
  • 1977: The Pack
  • 1978: I can do it best (Tilt)
  • 1978: From moment to moment (moment by moment)
  • 1979: Flipper Queen - I Can Do It Best (Tilt)
  • 1979: Who else goes to university? (French Postcards)
  • 1980: Julie Takes the Sky (Skyward)
  • 1980 Mother and Daughter: The Loving War
  • 1981: 300 Miles for Stephanie (300 MILES FOR STEPHANIE)
  • 1981: The Day the Loving Stopped
  • 1981: Kate Bennett, reporter (This Is Kate Bennett ...)
  • 1982: Beastmaster - The Liberator (Beastmaster)
  • 1983: Agatha Christie: A Caribbean Mystery
  • 1983: Jupiter's Day (Thursday's Child)
  • 1983: A Woman Screams for Life (I Want to Live)
  • 1983: Mr. Mom
  • 1983: Radio City Music Hall (Legs)
  • 1984: Shattered Vows
  • 1984: He's Fired, She's Hired
  • 1984: Micki & Maude (Micki + Maude)
  • 1984: Splash (Splash)
  • 1985: Free for a new love (Letting Go)
  • 1985: Trip to Transylvania (Transylvania 6-5000)
  • 1985: Where were you then, Claire? (The Other Lover)
  • 1987: Bobo (Walk Like a Man)
  • 1987: Born in East LA
  • 1987: The Magician's Youth (Young Harry Houdini)
  • 1987: Eight Is Enough: A Family Reunion
  • 1987: Tiger's Tale - A Tiger's Tale
  • 1988: The Tenth Man
  • 1988: The Angel of Death (Fatal Judgment)
  • 1988: A Friendship in Vienna
  • 1988: A Fateful Invention (14 Going on 30)
  • 1988: Two times two (Big Business)
  • 1989: Incident at Dark River
  • 1989: A Mother's Courage: The Mary Thomas Story
  • 1989: Old Gringo
  • 1989: Who's Afraid of the Black Man? (Do You Know the Muffin Man?)
  • 1990: Danielle Steel - Prize of Happiness (Fine Things)
  • 1990: Joshua's Heart
  • 1990: Daughter of the Streets
  • 1991: One Against the Wind
  • 1991: Finding the Way Home
  • 1991: Danielle Steel - Under the Rainbow (Changes)
  • 1991: The Giant of Thunder Mountain
  • 1991: The Return of Eliot Ness
  • 1991: Mrs. Lambert's Last Journey (Mrs. Lambert Remembers Love)
  • 1991: where have you been daddy? (The Summer My Father Grew Up)
  • 1992: Blood on Silky Skin (Deadly Matrimony)
  • 1992: In the Arms of a Killer
  • 1992: Hell of Passion (Obsessed)
  • 1992: My Invisible Friend (Day-O)
  • 1993: The Power of Love (Torch Song)
  • 1993: Heidi
  • 1993: Jack Reed : Badge of Honor
  • 1993: Murder in the operating room (Harmful Intent)
  • 1994: Cyborg Agent (Running Delilah)
  • 1994: Danielle Steel - A Perfect Stranger
  • 1994: Freefall - playing with fire (Freefall)
  • 1994: Jack Reed : A Search for Justice
  • 1995: Doctors - For Life and Death (Nothing Lasts Forever)
  • 1995: Buffalo Girls
  • 1995: The Prince and the Whipping Boy
  • 1995: The Honor to Fly (The Tuskegee Airmen)
  • 1995: The small Reiter (The Little Riders)
  • 1995: Jack Reed : One of Our Own
  • 1996: Blond is Revenge (An Unfinished Affair)
  • 1996: Danielle Steel - Love Matters (Full Circle)
  • 1996: The glow of violence (Harvest of Fire)
  • 1996: Die Legende von Pinocchio (The Adventures of Pinocchio)
  • 1997: In Icy Heights - Die am Mount Everest (Into Thin Air: Death On Everest)
  • 1997: Into the Promised Land (The Long Way Home)
  • 1997: No Chance (A Call to Remember)
  • 1998: The Crazy Cannon (Family Plan)
  • 1998: I Cried for You (Her Own Rules)
  • 1998: Timmy and the Secret of NIMH 2: Timmy to the Rescue
  • 1999: Hopelessly in love (Love Letters)
  • 1999: Mutiny in Port Chicago (Mutiny)
  • 1999: Train ride to the hereafter (Atomic Train)
  • 2000: Kindertransport - Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport
  • 2001: The Mists of Avalon (The Mists of Avalon)
  • 2002: The Pilot's Wife
  • 2003: Sounder
  • 2004: 10.5 - The earth trembles (10.5)
  • 2005: Arnold - His Way Up (See Arnold Run)
  • 2009: Brothers at War
  • 2010: Winston Churchill: Walking with Destiny
  • 2011: Whatever Happen (The Shunning)
  • 2013: When love wins - Departure to the West (When Calls the Heart)

TV Shows

literature

  • Christian Desjardins: Inside Film Music: Composers Speak , Silman-James Press 2007, ISBN 1879505886 , p. 118 ff.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Some Descendants of Christopher AVERY - Tenth Generation at genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com , accessed October 9, 2011
  2. ^ A b Dan Goldwasser: Interview on soundtrack.net from September 10, 2001 (English), accessed on October 9, 2011
  3. ↑ Lee Holdridge, Composer of the theme and other music for Beauty and the Beast ( Memento of the original of August 21, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on beautyandthebeast-tv.com from January 2007 (English), accessed on October 9, 2011 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.beautyandthebeast-tv.com
  4. ↑ a b David Doncel, Oscar Gimenez: Interview with Lee Holdridge at bsospirit.com (English), accessed October 9, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Holdridge, Lee
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Holdridge, Lee Elwood (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film composer
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Port-au-Prince , Haiti