Lee Holdridge

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Lee Elwood Holdridge (born March 3, 1944) is a Haitian-born American composer, conductor, and orchestrator. An 18-time Emmy Awards nominee, he has won two Primetime Emmy Awards, two Daytime Emmy Awards, two News and Documentary Emmy Awards, and one Sports Emmy Award. He has also been nominated for two Grammy Awards.

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Life and career Holdridge was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, of a Puerto Rican mother and an Americans father, Leslie Holdridge, a botanist and climatologist.

While living in Costa Rica, at age ten, he studied the violin with Hugo Mariani, who was at the time the conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra of Costa Rica. He then moved to Boston, where he finished high school and studied composition with Henry Lasker. Later in New York he had numerous study consultations with composer Nicolas Flagello as well as composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim.

The move to New York City enabled Holdridge to continue his music studies and begin his career as a professional composer. There, he composed chamber works, rock pieces, songs, theater music and background scores for short films, and eventually came to Neil Diamond's notice. Diamond then brought Holdridge with him to Los Angeles to write arrangements for his forthcoming albums. After several Gold album and Platinum album hits, the two collaborated on the Grammy Awards winning score for producer/director Hall Bartlett's film adaptation of Jonathan Livingston Seagull. Neil Diamond sued Bartlett for cutting much of his music from the film. Diamond was also against sharing musical credit with Holdridge; however, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences ruled in Holdridge's favor.Archived at Ghostarchive and the target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> Wayback Machine: Bartlett was ordered to reinstate the five minutes of Diamond's music score and three of his songs, "Anthem", "Prologue", and "Dear Father", and that the onscreen credits were to state "Music and songs by Neil Diamond", "Background score composed and adapted by Neil Diamond and Lee Holdridge", and "Music supervision by Tom Catalano".

Holdridge has composed and orchestrated for many films, including:

• Jeremy (1973) Discogs.com
• Forever Young, Forever Free (1975)
• Mustang Country (1976)
• The Pack (1977)
• The Other Side of the Mountain Part 2 (1978)
• Like Mom, Like Me (1978)
• Moment by Moment (1978)
• Tilt (1979)
• French Postcards (1979)
• American Pop (1981)
• The Day the Loving Stopped (1981)
• The Beastmaster (1982)
• Mr. Mom (1983)
• Splash (1984)
• Micki & Maude (1984)
• Transylvania 6-5000 (1985)
• The Men's Club (1986)
• A Tiger's Tale (1987)
• Big Business (1988)
• Old Gringo (1989)
• The Adventures of Pinocchio (1996)
• (1997)
• (1998)
• (2000)
• Puerto Vallarta Squeeze (2004)
• Brothers at War (2009). Profile , KRNV official website; accessed June 16, 2016.
• It Is No Dream (2012)
• Brothers After War (2023)

He composed for several television series, including:

• Sara
• East of Eden
• Eight is Enough
• I'll Take Manhattan
• Atomic Train
• The Mists of Avalon
• American Family
• The Brooke Ellison Story
• Moonlighting
• Beauty and the Beast
• ''10.5
• When Calls the Heart

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Concert works Holdridge has composed numerous concert works including:

• Concerto No. 3 for Violin and Orchestra
• Fantasy Chorale for Orchestra and Chorus
• Concertino for Guitar and Orchestra
• Scenes of Summer
• Ode to Orion
• The Golden Land
• Jefferson Tribute, for narrator and orchestra.
• Lazarus and His Beloved, opera and orchestral suite.
• Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 2
• Concerto for Viola and Chamber Orchestra
• Concertino for Violoncello and Strings
• Serenade for Oboe and Strings
• Ballet Fantasy for Strings and Harp
• Elegy for Harp and Strings
• Hymns Triumphant 1 and 2, suites for chorus and orchestra.
• Sonnet for soprano and chamber orchestra.
• Dulce Rosa an opera based on an Isabel Allende short story, premiered in 2013.
• Trinity for the Joffrey Ballet co-authored with Alan Raph.
• Journey to Cordoba, Concierto Para Mendez and Tanis in America, one act operas.

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Personal life Holdridge is married to ex-ballet dancer Elisa Justice. She is western region audition co-director of the Metropolitan Opera National Council. She also has hosted her own classical music radio show called "Eclectic Classics" and has co-produced a new album and documentary with Milt Okun called Great Voices Sing John Denver. She won a "Best Producer" award for a documentary at the Madrid International Film Festival.

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Awards and nominations

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ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards

1988	Top TV Series	Moonlighting
2015	Top Television Series	When Calls the Heart

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1988	Original Score	16 Days of Glory
1989		A Friendship in Vienna
1994		Heidi

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Emmy Awards

1985	Outstanding Achievement in Music and Lyrics	"Moonlighting"
1988	Outstanding Achievement in Main Title Theme Music	Beauty and the Beast
	Outstanding Achievement in Music Composition for a Series (Dramatic Underscore)	Beauty and the Beast
1989	Outstanding Achievement in Music and Lyrics	"The First Time I Loved Forever"
1990	Outstanding Music Composition for a Miniseries or a Special (Dramatic Underscore)	Do You Know the Muffin Man?
1991	Outstanding Achievement in Main Title Theme Music	ABC World of Discovery
1993	Outstanding Individual Achievement in Main Title Theme Music	Bob
	Outstanding Individual Achievement in Music Composition for a Miniseries or a Special (Dramatic Underscore)	Call of the Wild
1995		Buffalo Girls
1996	Outstanding Music Composition for a Miniseries or a Special	The Tuskegee Airmen
1999	Outstanding Music Composition for a Miniseries or a Movie (Dramatic Underscore)	Mutiny
2002	Outstanding Music Composition for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special (Dramatic Underscore)	The Mists of Avalon
1984	Special Classification of Outstanding Individual Achievement – Music	Woman to Woman
2000	Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction and Composition for a Drama Series	One Life to Live
2002
2004
2005	Outstanding Music Direction and Composition for a Drama Series
2006	Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction and Composition for a Drama Series
2007
2008
2010
2012
1998	Outstanding Achievement in a Craft: Music Composition/Direction/Lyrics	Atlanta's Olympic Glory
1988	Outstanding Achievement in a Craft in News and Documentary Programming – Music	The Explorers: A Century of Discovery
1991	Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Music Composition	ABC World of Discovery

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Grammy Awards

1973	Best Instrumental Arrangement	"Prologue/Crunchy Granola Suite"
1987	Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or for Television	"Moonlighting"

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International Film Music Critics Association Awards

2009	Best Original Score for a Documentary Feature	Brothers at War

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Online Film & Television Association Awards

2002	Best Music in a Motion Picture or Miniseries	The Mists of Avalon

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Further reading

• New York Theatre Critics' Reviews: Index, 1940-1960. Original from the University of Michigan.
• Of Love & Hope - Selections Form Beauty and the Beast By Lee Holdridge, Don Davis, Milton Okun, Larry Kenton, Edwin McLean. Published 1990, Cherry Lane Music.

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External links

• PBS biography as composer for American Valor

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