ON
GOLDEN POND
CONDUCTED
BY JASON JOHNSON
COMPOSER:
DAVE GRUSIN
MOVIE:
ON GOLDEN POND
COUNTRY:
U.S.A.
ALBUM:
ON GOLDEN POND
LABEL:UNIVERSAL
PICTURES
GENRE:
JAZZ/SOUNDTRACK
YEAR:
1980
Robert David "Dave"
Grusin (born June 26, 1934) is an American composer, arranger, producer, and
pianist. He has
composed many scores for feature films and television, and has won numerous
awards for his soundtrack and record work, including an Academy Award and ten
Grammy Awards. He has had a prolific recording career as an artist, arranger,
producer and executive producer. He is the co-founder of GRP Records.
Born in Littleton,
Colorado, he studied music at the University of Colorado at Boulder and was
awarded his degree in 1956. He produced his first single, "Subways Are for
Sleeping", in 1962 and his first film score for Divorce American Style (1967).
Other scores followed, including Winning (1969), The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973),
The Midnight Man (1974), and Three Days of the Condor(1975).
In the late 1970s, he
started GRP Records with his business partner, Larry Rosen, and began to create
some of the first commercial digital recordings. He was the composer for The
Graduate, On Golden Pond (1981), Tootsie (1982) and The Goonies (1985). In
1988, he won the Oscar for best original score for The Milagro Beanfield War,
He also composed the musical scores for the 1984 TriStar Pictures and the 1993 Columbia
Pictures Television logos.
From 2000 through 2011,
Grusin concentrated on composing classical and jazz compositions, touring and
recording with collaborators, including guitarist Lee Ritenour. Their álbum Harlequin
won a Grammy Award in 1985. Their classical crossover albums, Two Worldsand Amparo,
were nominated for Grammys.
On Golden Pond is a 1981
American drama film directed by Mark Rydell. The screenplay by Ernest Thompson was
adapted from his 1979 play of the same name.
Henry Fonda won the Golden
Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama and the Academy Award for
Best Actor in what was his final film role. Co-star Katharine Hepburn won the BAFTA
Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role and the Academy Award for Best Actress
as did Thompson for his script and there were a further seven Oscar nominations
for the film including Jane Fonda who played the daughter. The film co-starred Dabney
Coleman and Doug McKeon.
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