Download or read book The Composer in Hollywood written by Christopher Palmer and published by Marion Boyars Publishers. This book was released on 1990 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christopher Palmer discusses the life and work of eleven great Hollywood composers -- Steiner, Korngold, Newman, Waxman, Tiomkin, Webb, Rozsa, Herrmann, North, Bernstein, and Rosenman -- analyzing the scores of many well-known films. Each chapter is written in clear non-technical language for the general reader as well as film and music enthusiasts.