Fred Karlin

Prolific film and television composer Fred Karlin was created in Chicago in 1936. He started playing trumpet while in his teenagers and later examined jazz structure with William Russo, graduating cum laude from Amherst University in 1956 on the effectiveness of his honors thesis, “String Quartet No. 2.” In 1958 Karlin relocated to NEW YORK, working being a composer and arranger for some jazz acts, especially Benny Goodman, for whom he organized the Benny Goodman Has “The Audio of Music” LP; he also composed for film documentaries and tv industrial jingles, and from 1960 to 1964 trained the jazz plan at the summertime Arrangers Workshop on the Eastman College of Music. In 1962 Karlin agreed upon on as musical movie director from the Meg Welles Quintet, which documented three albums for Columbia; in 1963, he and Welles also wed. Karlin composed his initial feature film rating for Alan J. Pakula’s 1967 work In the Down Staircase — he and his family members relocated to Hollywood around enough time he started focus on the rating for 1969’s The Sterile Cuckoo, that he gained his initial Academy Prize nomination using the melody “Come Saturday Morning hours,” afterwards a pop strike for the Sandpipers. Karlin gained the Oscar for 1971’s “FOR ANY WE REALIZE,” in the film Fans and Various other Strangers — a pop smash for the Carpenters, the melody has since surfaced as today’s standard. He gained his last Oscar nomination for “Arrive Adhere to Me,” from 1972’s THE TINY Ark. Another year generated maybe his most well-known film rating, for the cult sci-fi traditional Westworld. In 1974, he gained television’s Emmy for Greatest Rating for his focus on The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. In every, Karlin have scored over 30 features and more than 100 television films and miniseries — he also penned the casual TV theme melody, like the theme for 1977’s THE PERSON from Atlantis, and gained 11 Emmy nominations furthermore to his four Oscar bids. With friend and coach Rayburn Wright, Karlin co-wrote the 1990 book Over the Track: HELPFUL INFORMATION to Modern Film Scoring, implemented four years afterwards by Hearing Films: The Film Lover’s Instruction to Film Music. He and wife Meg also founded the non-profit Traditional Institute of American Music. Karlin passed away of cancers on March 26, 2004, at age 67.