Patrick Williams, who was best-known for his Emmy-winning television music but who was also a renowned and Grammy-winning big-band jazz leader and arranger, died Wednesday morning of complications from cancer at St. John’s Hospital in Santa Monica, Calif. He was 79.
Williams was among the most versatile composers of his generation, earning an Oscar nomination, four Emmys and two Grammys during more than 50 years of music-making in New York and Los Angeles.
In the middle of his most prolific period, scoring music for TV including “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” “The Bob Newhart Show” and “The Streets of San Francisco,” he was also nominated for the prestigious Pulitzer Prize in music for his groundbreaking “An American Concerto” (1976) for jazz quartet and symphony orchestra.
He scored nearly 50 films, often memorable scores for movies that were not big hits, including “Casey’s Shadow,” “The Cheap Detective” and “Cuba” in the 1970s; “Used Cars,...
Williams was among the most versatile composers of his generation, earning an Oscar nomination, four Emmys and two Grammys during more than 50 years of music-making in New York and Los Angeles.
In the middle of his most prolific period, scoring music for TV including “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” “The Bob Newhart Show” and “The Streets of San Francisco,” he was also nominated for the prestigious Pulitzer Prize in music for his groundbreaking “An American Concerto” (1976) for jazz quartet and symphony orchestra.
He scored nearly 50 films, often memorable scores for movies that were not big hits, including “Casey’s Shadow,” “The Cheap Detective” and “Cuba” in the 1970s; “Used Cars,...
- 7/25/2018
- by Jon Burlingame
- Variety Film + TV
In the perennial cataloguing of the best single-screen movie theaters in Los Angeles — the Chinese, the Dome, the Egyptian, et al. — a nearly century-old venue has been showing up as a new kid on the block. That would be the Hollywood Bowl, which only this decade began screening entire films with full-length orchestra accompaniment. This summer, the schedule is so packed that classic film buffs might not even mind that the New Beverly is closed, when they’ve got the Bowl as the city’s most value-added revival house.
This Friday and Saturday, there’ll be chowing down not just among the perennially snack-happy Bowl audiences but on stage, or above it, as “Jaws” screens for two nights accompanied by the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra performing John Williams’ game-changing score. Then, in August, the first two “Star Wars” movies have their live-score Bowl premieres with the L.A. Phil, also as...
This Friday and Saturday, there’ll be chowing down not just among the perennially snack-happy Bowl audiences but on stage, or above it, as “Jaws” screens for two nights accompanied by the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra performing John Williams’ game-changing score. Then, in August, the first two “Star Wars” movies have their live-score Bowl premieres with the L.A. Phil, also as...
- 7/20/2018
- by Chris Willman
- Variety Film + TV
Last month while A R Rahman recorded the background music of Jhootha Hi Sahi at the world-famous Capitol Studios in Hollywood, La (the Mecca for everything music) he had an unexpected visitor. It was none other than the dazzling Monica Mancini, the daughter of the legendary Pink Panther composer Henri Mancini. Double Grammy-nominee Monica Mancini, whose father Henri is to film scores what Rahman is to film music, wanted to meet the Slumdog Millionaire composer, apparently for collaboration in the near future. Monica's interest in Rahman's music extends beyond the academic. Like her legendary father, Rahman's background scores for films are as exemplary as his vocals. Monica apparently, wants to carry forward her father's legacy through a collaborative album with Rahman. While Rahman refrained from talking about his meeting with the Mancini heir (apparently Rahman is off the press until after the Commonwealth Games) the Jhootha Hi Sahi director Abbas Tyrewala confirmed the meeting.
- 10/1/2010
- by Subhash K. Jha
- BollywoodHungama
Last month while A R Rahman recorded the background music of Jhootha Hi Sahi at the world-famous Capitol Studios in Hollywood, La (the Mecca for everything music) he had an unexpected visitor. It was none other than the dazzling Monica Mancini, the daughter of the legendary Pink Panther composer Henri Mancini. Double Grammy-nominee Monica Mancini, whose father Henri is to film scores what Rahman is to film music, wanted to meet the Slumdog Millionaire composer, apparently for collaboration in the near future. Monica's interest in Rahman's music extends beyond the academic. Like her legendary father, Rahman's background scores for films are as exemplary as his vocals. Monica apparently, wants to carry forward her father's legacy through a collaborative album with Rahman. While Rahman refrained from talking about his meeting with the Mancini heir (apparently Rahman is off the press until after the Commonwealth Games) the Jhootha Hi Sahi director Abbas Tyrewala confirmed the meeting.
- 10/1/2010
- by Subhash K. Jha
- BollywoodHungama
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presented "A Centennial Tribute to Johnny Mercer," on Thursday, November 5, 2009. Pictured above at the reception preceding the event (left to right): satirist Stan Freberg, veteran actress Rose Marie, singer/host Michael Feinstein, Ginny Mancini, widow of Henry Mancini, who was a frequent Johnny Mercer collaborator, Oscar-nominated songwriter Arthur Hamilton, and singer Monica Mancini, daughter of Henry Mancini. Composers Marilyn Bergman, Alan Bergman (The Thomas Crown Affair, The Way We Were, Tootsie, Best Friends) Michael Feinstein, Monica Mancini Actress Doris Roberts, among whose credits are The Honeymoon Killers, The Rose, and the television series Everybody Loves Raymond Photos: Todd Wawrychuk / ©A.M.P.A.S.
- 11/23/2009
- by Anna Robinson
- Alt Film Guide
Johnny Mercer (top); Mercer, Donald O’Connor, Hoagy Carmichael at the 1951 Academy Awards ceremony (bottom) Johnny Mercer’s musical legacy will be celebrated by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences with a gala centennial tribute featuring film clips of many of Mercer’s classic songs, in addition to performances and appearances by friends and colleagues, on Thursday, November 5, at 8 p.m. at the Academy’s Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. Note: This event is sold-out, but standby tickets may become available. Program host Michael Feinstein and Monica Mancini (daughter of Mercer’s longtime friend, Henry Mancini) will perform some of Mercer’s best-known songs, while Oscar-winning songwriter-composer Alan Bergman, Oscar-nominated songwriter Arthur Hamilton, [...]...
- 10/27/2009
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
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