Bernstein, Elmer

One year earlier, Alex North , with his score for A Streetcar Named Desire, had introduced jazz to mainstream cinema. This was an alternative style to the film music of the 1930s and 1940s, which had been dominated by composers such as Max Steiner, Dimitri Tiomkin, Erich Korngold, Alfred Newman, Miklos Rozsa, and Franz Waxman—known as the Hollywood “symphonists.” These writers had created scores that usually reflected the musical language of popular classical composers such as Puccini, , ...