Descriptive Summary
Preferred Citation
Scope and Content
Descriptive Summary
Title: Edward B. Powell Collection of Motion Picture
Music,
Date (inclusive): 1935-1977
Collection number: 44-M
Creator: Powell, Edward
B.
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library.
Performing Arts Special Collections
Los Angeles, California 90095-1490
Abstract: Collection consists of manuscript or ozalid copy
sketches, full scores, or conductor's scores of motion picture music
orchestrated by Powell and others. Includes music for the following films: The
garden of evil (Bernard Herrmann), Viva Zapata (Alex North), A night with Pan
(Joseph Achron), The song of Bernadette and Twelve o'clock high (Alfred Newman),
The king and I (Richard Rodgers), It's a mad mad mad mad world (Ernest Gold),
The torn curtain (John Addison), and Sylvia (David Raksin). Also music by John
Green. Orchestrators, beside Powell, include Frank Comstock and Ray
Heindorf.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Edward B. Powell Collection of Motion Picture
Music, 44-M, Performing Arts Special Collections , University of California, Los
Angeles.
Scope and Content
The collection consists of manuscript or ozalid copy sketches, full scores,
or conductor's scores of motion picture music orchestrated by Powell and others.
Included is music for the following films: The garden of evil (Bernard
Herrmann), Viva Zapata (Alex North), A night with Pan (Joseph Achron), The song
of Bernadette and Twelve o'clock high (Alfred Newman), The king and I (Richard
Rodgers), It's a mad mad mad mad world (Ernest Gold), The torn curtain (John
Addison), and Sylvia (David Raksin). Also music by John Green. Orchestrators,
beside Powell, include Frank Comstock and Ray Heindorf.
The collection is organized into the following series:
- Series 1. Films
- Series 2. Standard Repertoire Powell Orchestrations