Lee Holdridge

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. He has also been nominated for two Grammy Awards.

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. 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, 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) 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,

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

Outstanding Individual Achievement in Main Title Theme Music Bob

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

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2005 Outstanding Music Direction and Composition for a Drama Series

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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

Grammy Awards Year Category Nominated work Results Ref. 1973 Best Instrumental Arrangement "Prologue/Crunchy Granola Suite" 1987 Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or for Television "Moonlighting"

International Film Music Critics Association Awards Year Category Nominated work Result Ref. 2009 Best Original Score for a Documentary Feature Brothers at War

Online Film & Television Association Awards Year Category Nominated work Result Ref. 2002 Best Music in a Motion Picture or Miniseries The Mists of Avalon