Description
Collection consists of music manuscripts, music notes, cue
sheets and timing sheets for music composed by Mancini for
motion pictures: Arabesque
(Universal, 1966), Charade (Universal, 1963),
Days of Wine and Roses (Warner Brothers, 1962),
Dear Heart (Warner Brothers, 1964),
Experiment in Terror (Columbia, 1962),
Gaily, Gaily (United Artists, 1969), The
Great Race (Warner Brothers, 1965), Me, Natalie
(National General, 1969), Mr. Hobbs Takes A Vacation (20th
Century-Fox, 1962), Moment to Moment (Universal, 1966),
Peter Gunn {Gunn} Paramount, 1967),
The Pink Panther (United Artists, 1964), The
Private War of Major Benson (Universal, 1955), Shot in the
Dark (United Artists, 1964), Soldier in the Rain
(Allied Artists, 1963), Two for the Road (20th Century-Fox,
1967), Wait Until Dark (Warner Brothers, 1967), and
What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? (United Artists, 1966); also
the holograph and typescript of Mancini's monograph Sounds and
Scores (1962).
Background
Mancini was born on Apr. 16, 1924, in Cleveland, OH; attended
Carnegie Tech Music School and Juillard Graduate School;
began career after military service in WWII as a pianist
with dance bands; studied privately in Los Angeles with
Krenek, Castelnuovo-Tedesco, and Sendrey; staff composer
for Universal Pictures, 1952-58; demonstrated his skills as
a music arranger and songwriter with The Glenn Miller Story
(1954), which earned him the first of many Academy Award
nominations; subsequently composed memorable scores and
songs for numerous films and the TV series Peter Gunn
(1959) and Mr. Lucky (1960); he won Academy Awards for the
score of Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) and the song Moon
River, the title song of Days of Wine and Roses (1962), and
the score of Victor/Victoria (1982); won more than 20
Grammy Awards; enjoyed a successful career as guest pianist
and conductor of pops orchestras; wrote a practical guide
to orchestration titled, Sounds and Scores (1962); died in
June 1994.
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