If you stay for the credits of Antoine Fuqua’s Western The Magnificent Seven (which opened at No. 1 this weekend), you’ll hear a rousing anthem that sounds familiar for good reason: It’s the theme ...

Film composer Elmer Bernstein might be best known for his rousing score to The Magnificent Seven. But that classic Western theme was only one example of Bernstein's remarkable dexterity, on display in ...

Elmer Bernstein, the prolific and protean film composer who branded "The Magnificent Seven" theme into the American psyche, scored a jazz breakthrough in "The Man With the Golden Arm" and caroused his ...

LOS ANGELES — Film composer Elmer Bernstein, who created a brawny, big-sky theme for The Magnificent Seven, nerve-jangling jazz for The Man With The Golden Arm and heart-rending grace notes for To ...

LOS ANGELES – Film composer Elmer Bernstein, who created a brawny, big-sky theme for "The Magnificent Seven," nerve-jangling jazz for "The Man With The Golden Arm" and heart-rending grace notes for ...

Last week Elmer Bernstein, who had composed music for a wide array of movies and television programs in a career that lasted over six decades, died at the age of 82. His movie themes are instantly ...