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Lee Holdridge

Lee Elwood Holdridge is an American composer, conductor, and orchestrator. An 18-time Emmy Award nominee, he has won two Primetime Emmy Awards, two Daytime Emmy Awards, two News a…

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Lee Elwood Holdridge (born March 3, 1944) is an American composer, conductor, and orchestrator. An 18-time Emmy Award nominee, he has won two Primetime Emmy Awards, two Daytime Emmy Awards, two News and Documentary Emmy Awards, and one Sports Emmy Award.

Life and careerHoldridge was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, of a Puerto Rican mother and an American father, Leslie Holdridge, a botanist and climatologist., While living in…
Concert worksHoldridge has composed numerous concert works including:, Concerto No. 3 for Violin and Orchestra, Fantasy Chorale for Orchestra and Chorus and 18 more
Personal lifeHoldridge is married to ex-ballet dancer Elisa Justice.
Further readingNew York Theatre Critics' Reviews: Index, 1940-1960.

Lee Elwood Holdridge is an American composer, conductor, and orchestrator. An 18-time Emmy Award 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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Holdridge was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, of a Puerto Rican mother and an American 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 and platinum hits, the two collaborated on the Grammy Award 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. 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)
Forever Young, Forever Free (1975)
Mustang Country (1976)
The Pack (1977)

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Life and careerHoldridge was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, of a Puerto Rican mother and an American father, Leslie Holdridge, a botanist and climatologist., While living in…
Concert worksHoldridge has composed numerous concert works including:, Concerto No. 3 for Violin and Orchestra, Fantasy Chorale for Orchestra and Chorus and 18 more
Personal lifeHoldridge is married to ex-ballet dancer Elisa Justice.
Further readingNew York Theatre Critics' Reviews: Index, 1940-1960.

Life and career

Holdridge was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, of a Puerto Rican mother and an American 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 and platinum hits, the two collaborated on the Grammy Award 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. 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)
Forever Young, Forever Free (1975)
Mustang Country (1976)
The Pack (1977)

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The Other Side of the Mountain Part 2 (1978)

Like Mom, Like Me (1978)

Moment by Moment (1978)

French Postcards (1979)

The Day the Loving Stopped (1981)

Micki & Maude (1984)

Transylvania 6-5000 (1985)

The Men's Club (1986)

A Tiger's Tale (1987)

The Adventures of Pinocchio (1996)

Into Thin Air: Death on Everest (1997)

The Secret of NIMH 2: Timmy to the Rescue (1998)

Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport (2000)

Puerto Vallarta Squeeze (2004)

Brothers at War (2009).

It Is No Dream (2012)

Brothers After War (2023)

He composed for several television series, including:

The Brooke Ellison Story

Beauty and the Beast

When Calls the Heart

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
Two Lyric Pieces for Solo Violin, Strings and Harp
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.

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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