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Bronislau Kaper
Invitation: A Composition for Piano
Robbins Music Corporation / Loew's Inc
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Bronislau Kaper (music) Helen Delitsch (words)
Hi-Lili, Hi-Lo (Sheet Music)
Robbins Music Corp
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lyrics by Paul Francis Webster / arr. Eric Richards Music by Bronislau Kaper
Invitation - Jazz Ensemble
Alfred Publishing - Music by Bronislau Kaper, lyrics by Paul Francis Webster / arr. Eric Richards - Invitation - Conductor Score - 32 Pages - - Latin - - 4 (Medium Advanced / Difficult) - Conductor Score - Jazz Ensemble
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lyrics by Ned Washington / arr. Frank Mantooth Music by Bronislau Kaper
On Green Dolphin Street - Jazz Ensemble
Alfred Publishing - Music by Bronislau Kaper, lyrics by Ned Washington / arr. Frank Mantooth - On Green Dolphin Street - Conductor Score & Parts - 128 Pages - - - - 3 (Medium) - - Jazz Ensemble
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Marx Brothers, Allan Jones, Maureen O'Sullivan, Margaret Dumont, Leonard Ceeley, Douglass Dumbrille, Esther Muir, Sig Ruman, Robert Middlemass, Vivien Fay, Ivie Anderson
A Day at the Races
Warner Home Video
DVD
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Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman
Gaslight (1944)
DVD
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Judy Garland, Michael Feinstein, Rise Stevens, Herbert Stothart, Bronislau Kaper, Busby Berkeley, Frank Whitbeck
The Great American Songbook
Warner Home Video
DVD
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James Whitmore, Edmund Gwenn, Joan Weldon, James Arness, Onslow Stevens
Them!
Warner Home Video
DVD
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Joanna Barnes, Henry Brandon, Coral Browne, Brook Byron, Peggy Cass
Auntie Mame
Warner Home Video
DVD
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Peter O'Toole, James Mason, Curd Jürgens, Eli Wallach, Jack Hawkins
Lord Jim
Sony Pictures
DVD
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Nelson Eddy, Rise Stevens, Nigel Bruce
The Chocolate Soldier (1941)
VHS
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Lana Turner, Van Heflin
Green Dolphin Street (1947)
VHS
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Lana Turner, Ray Milland, Tom Ewell
A Life of Her Own (1950)
VHS
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Leslie Caron, Mel Ferrer
Lili (1953)
VHS
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Yul Brynner, Maria Schell, Claire Bloom, Lee J. Cobb
The Brothers Karamazov (1958)
VHS
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Kirk Douglas, Robert Mitchum, Richard Widmark, Lola Albright, Sally Field
The Way West
MGM (Video & DVD)
VHS
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Bronislau Kaper
Bronislaw or Bronislav Kaper
Composer, Arranger, Conductor, Music Director, Pianist
(1902 - 1983)
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Bronislau Kaper was a musical prodigy who studied law and music in his native Poland before moving to Berlin to pursue music. He composed for German films, but as anti-Semitism increased he moved to Paris in 1933. There he was discovered by Louis B. Mayer who signed him to MGM.
From 1936 to 1940 he wrote songs for films: “Tomorrow Is Another Day,” “Cosi Cosa,” and “All God’s Chillun Got Rhythm” (now considered politically incorrect) for the Marx Brothers’ A Day at the Races (1937). By 1940 he was assigned complete scores. During a career that spanned over 30 years in Hollywood he scored an incredible variety of films from Gaslight (1944), a suspense drama, to Them! (1954), a horror film about giant ants, to Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956), a boxing film. With Herbert Stothart he served as music director for the operetta, The Chocolate Soldier (1941), which featured his song, “While My Lady Sleeps” with Gus Khan’s lyrics.
In 1947 Kaper’s score for Green Dolphin Street produced a jazz classic, “On Green Dolphin Street.” He won an Oscar for Lili (1953), which contained the song “Hi-Lili Hi-Lo,” and was nominated in 1962 for the Mutiny on the Bounty score and its love song, “Follow Me” with Paul Francis Webster’s lyrics. Mutiny... did win a Golden Globe for best score as did A Life of Her Own (1950). With Webster, Kaper also wrote the haunting “Invitation” (1952), which would become an oft-recorded jazz standard.
Milestones for Kaper in 1958 include the “Overture” for Auntie Mame and the score for The Brothers Karamazov, where his intimate knowledge of Russian ethnic music added to the score’s authenticity. But large-scale scores such as Lord Jim’s (1965) were losing favor, so Kaper produced his last one in 1967 for The Way West.
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