Broughton, Bruce, 1945-

Bruce Broughton is best known for his many motion picture scores, including Silverado, Tombstone, The Rescuers Down Under, The Presidio, Miracle on 34th Street, the Homeward Bound adventures and Harry and the Hendersons. His television themes include The Orville, JAG, Steven Spielberg’s Tiny Toon Adventures and Dinosaurs. His scores for television range from mini-series like Texas Rising and The Blue and Gray to TV movies (Warm Springs, O Pioneers!) and countless episodes of television series such as Dallas, Quincy, Hawaii Five-O and How the West Was Won.

With 24 nominations, Broughton has won a record 10 Emmy awards. His score to Silverado was Oscar-nominated, and his score to Young Sherlock Holmes was nominated for a Grammy. His music has accompanied many of the Disney theme park attractions throughout the world, and his score for Heart of Darkness was the first recorded orchestral score for a video game. In the spring of 2016, he arranged a commercial album of songs from motion pictures and Broadway for the multi-talented Seth MacFarlane.

Many of Broughton’s concert works have been performed by the Cleveland Orchestra; the Chicago, Seattle and National Symphonies; the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra; the Sinfonia of London; and the Hollywood Bowl. These have included Fanfare for 16 Horns, a joint commission by the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the International Horn Society premiered at the Hollywood Bowl; Modular Music, composed for the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra; the children’s fantasy The Magic Horn; In the World of Spirits and A Celebration Overture are among his commissioned works for symphonic winds; and Fanfares, Marches, Hymns and Finale and Masters of Space and Time are among his works for brass. Broughton has also had numerous works for chamber ensembles performed and recorded throughout the world, including his Five Pieces for Piano, recorded by pianist Gloria Cheng; Excursions for trumpet and band, recorded by trumpet virtuoso Philip Smith; and his string quartet Fancies, recorded and commissioned by the Lyris Quartet. Broughton’s Heroes has been chosen as the 2020 Championship Section Final for The National Brass Band Championships of Great Britain.

Broughton is currently a board member of ASCAP, a former governor of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, as well as a past president and founding member of The Society of Composers and Lyricists. He has taught composition and orchestration at USC’s Department of Screen Scoring in the Thornton School of Music, and at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. He is composer-in-residence for 2020–2021 at the University of North Texas College of Music.

Organizations
Member of the Board of Directors, ASCAP
2020–2021 Composer-in-Residence, University of North Texas College of Music
Former Governor, Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences
Past President, Society of Composers & Lyricists
Former Governor, Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
University of Southern California (USC) Thornton School of Music, Department of Screen Scoring
University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), Herb Alpert School of Music
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Awards & Nominations
Emmy Awards:
Warm Springs
Eloise at Christmastime
Eloise at the Plaza
Glory and Honor
O Pioneers!
Tiny Toon Adventures Theme Song
The First Olympics, Athens 1896, Part I
Dallas: Ewing Blues
Dallas: The Letter
Buck Rogers: The Satyr
Emmy Nominations:
Texas Rising Main Title Theme
The Dive from Clausen's Pier
First Monday Main Title Theme
True Women
Jag Main Title Theme
Tiny Toon Adventures Theme Song
The Old Man and the Sea
Dallas: The Lost Child
Dallas: The Search
Two Marriages
The Blue and the Gray, Part Two
Quincy: Quincy's Wedding Part Two
Killjoy
Hawaii Five-0
Academy award® Nomination:
Silverado
Grammy Nomination: Young Sherlock Holmes
Saturn Award:
Young Sherlock Holmes

Bruce Harold Broughton (born March 8, 1945) is an American orchestral composer of television, film, and video game scores and concert works. He has composed several highly acclaimed soundtracks over his extensive career, and he has won nine Emmy Awards and has been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Score, and has contributed many pieces to music archives. Broughton is currently a lecturer in composition at the UCLA.

Career
Broughton has composed the score for many notable films including Disney films such as The Rescuers Down Under (1990), Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey (1993) and its sequel, Lost in San Francisco (1996), as well as popular westerns such as Silverado (1985) and Tombstone (1993). Other films scored by Broughton include Young Sherlock Holmes (1985), Baby's Day Out (1994), Harry and the Hendersons (1987), Miracle on 34th Street (1994), and The Boy Who Could Fly (1986). Additionally, he composed music for the video game Heart of Darkness, and the animated TV series, Tiny Toon Adventures. In 1994, Broughton also conducted the fanfare for the 20th Century Fox logo that was composed by Alfred Newman.

Silverado earned him an Academy Award nomination, though he lost the Oscar to Out of Africa. He has won nearly a dozen Emmy awards.[1][2][3]

Broughton is a member of the Board of Directors of ASCAP, a former Governor of both the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) and the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, a Past President of the Society of Composers & Lyricists, and a lecturer at UCLA and USC.

Broughton's song Alone yet Not Alone, from the film with the same name, was originally nominated for an Oscar for Best Original Song at the 86th Academy Awards. But on January 29, 2014, before any voting could take place, the nomination was rescinded, when the Academy alleged that Broughton, a former Academy governor who, at the time, was an executive committee member of the Academy's music branch, had improperly contacted other branch members.[4][5] "No matter how well-intentioned the communication, using one's position as a former governor and current executive committee member to personally promote one’s own Oscar submission creates the appearance of an unfair advantage,” said Cheryl Boone Isaacs, Academy President.[6] Not everyone agreed with the Academy's actions.[7][8]

Broughton has written many pieces for performance of Salvation Army brass bands, including "Covenant." Broughton is a graduate of the Punahou School in Honolulu, as well as the University of Southern California. He has taught at both USC and UCLA.

Born March 8, 1945 in Los Angeles, California, USA
Birth Name Bruce Harold Broughton
Mini Bio (1)
Bruce Broughton composes in almost every medium, from theatrical motion pictures and television to computer games, in styles ranging from large symphonic settings ("Silverado") to contemporary electronic scores (the recently Emmy-nominated "The Dive from Clausen's Pier"). Broughton has written the scores for such major motion pictures as "Tombstone," "Lost In Space," "Young Sherlock Holmes" and "Bambi II." With 23 nominations, he has received the Emmy award a record ten times, most recently for his score to the HBO movie, "Warm Springs." His television credits include the main title themes for "Jag" and Steven Spielberg's "Tiny Toon Adventures," as well as the scores for countless television series ("Dallas," "Quincy," "Hawaii Five-O") and movies and mini-series ("The Blue and the Gray," True Women"). His score for "Heart of Darkness" was the first orchestral score composed for a CD-ROM game. Broughton's concert music includes numerous works for orchestra and chamber groups, which have been performed by ensembles such as the Cleveland Orchestra, the Chicago Symphony and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. He is a governor of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, a board member of ASCAP and a past president of The Society of Composers and Lyricists. He has lectured in music composition at UCLA and has taught film composition in the Advanced Film Music Studies program at USC.
- IMDb Mini Biography By: Bruce Broughton

[Pasted from YouTube transcript, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4NNblbHfwE]

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... when I first began
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working out of college I was working for
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CBS television as part of management I
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wasn't working as a composer I was
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working as a music supervisor...

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...work I was working at CBS I was doing
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primarily a lot of television and I came
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in contact with a lot of television
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composers a lot of guys who you've never
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heard of it but who were very skilled
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and then CBS at that time started
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producing motion pictures so I started
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meeting some of the motion picture you
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saw my models at the time for guys that
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I had met whose music I really liked
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Jerry Goldsmith Lawrence Rosenthal Lalo
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Schifrin
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Michele LeGrande Henry Mancini guys like
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this and I actually came in contact with
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maybe get on their sessions and watch
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them play and so I was thinking boy if I
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could just do that I could just do that...