- Fred Steiner
Fred Steiner is an American composer, conductor, orchestrator and arranger for television, radio and film, born
February 24 ,1923 , in New York, New York. He received a degree inmusic composition from theOberlin Conservatory of Music .Radio
As a composer for radio, Steiner's credits include the dramatic anthology series "
On Stage ", "CBS Radio Workshop ", "Suspense " and "This is Your FBI ".Television
Steiner has written for a number of television series that enjoyed great popularity in their day or in syndication. The most auspicious are the many episodes of the original series of "" to which he contributed original scores (more than any other composer). (An article he wrote for the Library of Congress, "Music for Star Trek: Scoring a Television Show in the Sixties", authoritatively outlines and defines the contributions of all the original underscore composers of this series.) Another of Steiner's famous works, "Park Avenue Beat," was used from 1957 to 1966 as the theme song to "Perry Mason" and was re-recorded by
Dick DeBenedictis for the subsequent made-for-TV movies in 1985. Steiner also composed the main theme to "The Bullwinkle Show " and Follow That Man and contributed music to episodes of "Lost in Space ", "The Twilight Zone", and "Amazing Stories".Feature Film Work
His feature film work includes original music ("
Run for the Sun ,The St. Valentine's Day Massacre ") and orchestration/adaptation (sometimes uncredited) for other composers (among them are "" (1979), and "The Greatest Story Ever Told " (1965).His Academy Award nomination for "Best Music, Original Score" is for "
The Color Purple " (1985). It was a shared nomination withQuincy Jones ,Jeremy Lubbock ,Rod Temperton ,Caiphus Semenya , Andraé Crouch,Chris Boardman ,Jorge Calandrelli , Joel Rosenbaum,Jack Hayes ,Jerry Hey , andRandy Kerber .Personal
Steiner is the father of singer/songwriter
Wendy Waldman .ee also
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The Film Music Society External links
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* [http://nwda-db.wsulibs.wsu.edu/findaid/ark:/80444/xv63626 Guide to the Fred Steiner papers at the University of Oregon.]
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