Ravinia 2019, Issue 4, Week 7

8:00 PM SUNDAY, JULY 21, 2019 PAVILION FILM WITH LIVE ORCHESTRA AN IVAN REITMAN FILM MUSIC BY ELMER BERNSTEIN CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA PETER M. BERNSTEIN, conductor † A SCHIRMER THEATRICAL PRODUCTION COLUMBIA PICTURES Presents An IVAN REITMAN Film A BLACK RHINO / BERNIE BRILLSTEIN Production Starring BILL MURRAY • DAN AYKROYD and SIGOURNEY WEAVER Also Starring HAROLD RAMIS • RICK MORANIS Music by ELMER BERNSTEIN Executive Producer BERNIE BRILLSTEIN Written by DAN AYKROYD and HAROLD RAMIS Produced and Directed by IVAN REITMAN Ghostbusters ©  Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. All rights reserved. Schirmer Theatrical Creative Team Robert Thompson, President & Creative Producer Alyssa Foster, Producer Peter M. Bernstein, Score Arranger & Consultant Mike Edelman, Technical Director Marc Mann/Music Production Services, Inc., Synth Designer & Score Consultant Jeff Sugg/Handmade Media, LLC, Production Designer Ronen Shai, Production Editor & Senior Multimedia Editor PETER M. BERNSTEIN, conductor As an arranger, record producer, orchestrator, composer, conductor, lecturer, rock and roll bass player, and author, Peter M. Bernstein has had a multi-faceted career as an insider in Hol- lywood’s music business. As a composer he has scored feature films, television movies, minise- ries, and individual episodes, which together amount to over 500 projects. His musical expe- rience began with his father—Elmer Bernstein, an Academy Award winning composer whose credits include The Magnificent Seven , To Kill a Mockingbird , and Ghostbusters —attending recording sessions before he attended school. Peter’s formal musical education started with piano lessons; then he decided he wanted to be a bassist, and he began learning the instrument on his own before taking lessons from Carol Kaye, a member of the famed “Wrecking Crew” session musicians. At age 14 he started his professional career in rock and roll, sticking with the record business until his composing career took over. As a student at the California Institute of the Arts, Bernstein studied with pioneering elec- tronic composer Morton Subotnick, which be- gan a lifelong interest in electronic music along- side film composition. Eventually he became his father’s lead orchestrator while simultaneously pursuing careers as a composer—one of the first to work from a home studio—and as a record producer and bassist. Bernstein’s first major or- chestral assignment as a composer was the tele- vised Ewok Movie , whose sequel he also scored, and his first TV series credit was the massive hit  Jump Street . He has since brought together instruments, voices, and synths in imaginative combinations to compose music in a wide va- riety of styles. He also worked with his father on several scores—Elmer conducted Peter’s score for the TNT miniseries Rough Riders and contributed an end-credits theme for the Show- time series Fallen Angels , and Peter conducted sessions for several of Elmer’s scores, includ- ing Three Amigos and The Babe , and composed about a third of one of Elmer’s last scores, Wild Wild West . Peter M. Bernstein is making his Ra- vinia debut. JULY 15 – JULY 21, 2019 | RAVINIA MAGAZINE 103