Bronislaw Kaper

Film composer Bronislaw Kaper wrote strikes for several Hollywood movies from your mid-’30s with the past due ’60s. Given birth to in 1902 in Warsaw, Poland, Kaper analyzed in the Warsaw Conservatory of Music, after that later worked like a composer and conductor in Warsaw, Berlin, Vienna, London, and Paris. Kaper made up concert items and film music, frequently in cooperation with Austrian composer Walter Jurman. He emigrated towards the U.S. in 1935, and became an effective Hollywood composer. He not merely wrote successful ratings for MGM, but additionally many hit tunes, usually with main collaborator lyricist Gus Kahn. Kaper also worked well in Hollywood as an arranger, conductor, and musical movie director. Other tasks of Kaper’s consist of adapting Chopin for Broadway’s Polonaise, and composing for television, like the theme of The F.B.We. show. A few of Kaper’s best-known tunes are “Cosi Cosa,” “You’re All I WANT” (1935), “SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA” (1936), “All God’s Chillun Got Tempo,” “You to definitely LOOK AFTER Me” (1937), “On Green Dolphin Road” (1947), “Hi-Lili, Hi-Lo” (1953), and “Someone Up There Loves Me” (1956). Furthermore to his use Jurman and Kahn, Kaper published tunes with Helen Deutsch, Paul Francis Webster, and Sammy Cahn. The lengthy set of ’50s and ’60s movies offering music by Kaper contains Crimson Badge of Courage (1951), The Nude Spur (1953), The Brothers Karamazov (1958), Mutiny within the Bounty (1962), and Lord Jim (1965).