Lee Holdridge
Lee Elwood Holdridge ( born March 3, 1944 in Port-au -Prince, Haiti) is an American composer, who composes mainly for television films and television series. His most famous works are Beastmaster - The Liberator, Splash - A Virgin on the hook and Beauty and the Beast.
Life
Lee Holdridge was born the son of the American botanist Leslie Holdridge and a Puerto Rican in Haiti. However Holdridge grew up in Costa Rica and began to take an interest in the violin, so he took music lessons at the age of ten years. After five years, he was enthusiastic about the idea of composing himself, so he asked his parents to send him to Boston to his aunt and uncle, so he was able to study music. And then there he studied privately with Henry Lasker. And after he had already composed his first piano piece even at the age of 18, he went to New York City where he studied at the College under Nicolas Flagello which it later because of his own work on the film drama Doctor Zhivago headed Maurice Jarre, to film composition brought. However, he should first work on Broadway and still with RCA Records for some pop artist before he was hired by Neil Diamond for his song Holly Holy. This brought him to Los Angeles and after some common gold and platinum albums together they composed the music for Jonathan Livingston Seagull.
Holdridge sees his musical work strongly influenced by classical composers such as Béla Bartók, Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich and Vaughan Williams as well as other film composers such as Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Franz Waxman, Jerry Goldsmith and Ennio Morricone influenced. And after he already wrote shorter operas, Holdridge plans eventually to compose an epic opera.
For the recording of his music for Beauty and the Beast, the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra in 1992 were awarded the Grammy Award.