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	Bill Conti - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bill Conti (born April 13, 1943 in Providence, Rhode Island) is a film musical director.
		Conti was an orchestra director by age fifteen.
		Conti also composed the theme song to American Gladiators, worked with CBS on the movie jingle, and wrote PrimeTime Live for ABC News.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bill_Conti (443 words)

	Bio for Bill Conti
		Oscar and three-time Emmy Award-winner Bill Conti is one of Hollywood's most sought-after composers and conductors for both film and television.
		Conti's relationship with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences spans two decades as he has been the musical director for twelve of the internationally-televised annual Academy Award ceremonies, most recently in 1997.
		Conti received a bassoon scholarship from Louisiana State University where he majored in composition and played jazz piano at many of the local night spots to help defray the costs of his education.
	www.pittsburghsymphony.org /pghsymph.nsf/bios/Bill+Conti (722 words)

	Bill Conti - composer for film and TV
		Conti is an accomplished composer who has a well-deserved reputation for serving up exciting scores which easily span the boundaries between traditional classical film scores and contemporary rock music.
		With this background it is no surprise that Conti has penned several songs for movies, and has been called upon to write the theme music for several well-known TV series.
		Conti's soundtrack is full of fun with prominent piano part and inventive orchestration (including tap-dancing percussion) during the cat & mouse chase.
	www.mfiles.co.uk /composers/Bill-Conti.htm (549 words)

	Bill Conti
		Bill Conti began his music studies, as have many composers, on piano.
		Conti has been nominated for eleven Emmys, winning three, all for his musical direction of the Oscar telecast.
		In addition to his many other honors, Conti received a star on Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1989 and in 1995 ASCAP awarded him the Golden Soundtrack Award for lifetime achievement in film and television.
	www.settling-the-score.com /bill-conti.html (390 words)

	7/28/99: Wearing the Crown Again: Bill Conti Interview Part 1
		Conti has numerous awards, nominations, golden records, degrees, commendations, and a star which is walked on daily by Hollywood tourists.
		If anything, Bill Conti is a workhorse, a workhorse whose talent for memorable melodies has never allowed his reams of music to become a quagmire of notes.
		Bill Conti's role here also is to be a master of understatement, creating a lush mood for the games that rich, disaffected people play.
	www.filmscoremonthly.com /articles/1999/28_Jul---Wearing_the_Crown_Again_Bill_Conti_Interview_Part_1.asp (1418 words)

	MI6 News :: `For Your Eyes Only` composer Bill Conti to direct Oscars music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Bill Conti's job of musical director of the Oscars show is not for the faint-hearted since conducting the orchestra is the ultimate plate-spinning assignment - reports the BBC.
		Conti's most nerve-wracking moment came during his first Oscars show as musical director, in 1977, when a member of the orchestra alerted him that they could smell smoke.
		Conti immediately told the show's director: "I start cursing and screaming, I tell him we're not going to die for this show - you must do something or I'm going to climb out of this pit with 60 musicians and we're going to be home in 10 minutes.
	www.mi6.co.uk /news/index.php?itemid=2162 (1096 words)

	Filmtracks: The Thomas Crown Affair (Bill Conti)
		Bill Conti's approach certainly, at the least, adds an extra element of uniqueness to the film, if only because it defies everything that we have come to expect a 1990s action/suspense/drama score to encompass.
		Conti's score in the film is a complete disaster in parts, while strangely appropriate in others.
		The Thomas Crown Affair: (Bill Conti) When I first heard that they were remaking the classic 1968 film starring Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway, I was absolutely ecstatic about the idea.
	www.filmtracks.com /titles/thomas_crown.html (1619 words)

	Bill Conti Fan Web (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The musician is best known to film music fans for his performance on Bill Conti’s ‘Gonna Fly Now’ from the Rocky series, which became a top ten hit in the US and earned a grammy nomination.
		Bill Conti conducted for the 18th time the orchestra during the Oscar show on 5.
		In this year's composer Bill Conti and Emmy Award winning composer Ashley Irwin are collaborating to create over 100 minutes of new music, in addition to the classic soundtrack from the film.
	billconti.czechian.net /index.php?text=news (588 words)

	Filmtracks: Masters of the Universe (Bill Conti)
		Conti himself was coming off of his remarkable success for The Right Stuff and the Rocky scores.
		Only occasionally does Conti utilize varied percussion to represent the world of Eternia and its eclectic characters, and thus, the traditional orchestral sounds are almost too patriotic for the subject matter.
		As bold and ambitious as Conti's music is in all of its thunderous cymbal crashes and timpani rolls, the themes and underlying constructs are stale renditions of Williams' Superman music, and despite the harmonic pleasures that the music delivers, significant deficiencies in inspiration drag the score down.
	www.filmtracks.com /titles/masters_universe.html (904 words)

	Untitled Document
		Bill Conti is one of Hollywood's most famed composers and conductors, having won an Oscar for Best Original Score for the Right Stuff, as well as four Emmy awards.
		Bill Conti has scored music for over 100 films, including the Oscar-winning film Rocky, The Karate Kid movies, James Bond: For Your Eyes Only, Private Benjamin, The Adventures of Huck Finn, and most recently, The Thomas Crown Affair.
		Bill Conti has been honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contributions and achievements in music.
	www.chinghai.org.tw /eng/news/117/mu1.htm (1157 words)

	Oregon Symphony: Award-Winning Film and Television Composer Bill Conti Conducts "An Evening at the Movies"
		Portland, Ore. … Bill Conti, one of Hollywood’s most prolific composers whose credits span 30 years and multiple Oscar, Grammy and Emmy honors, will headline “An Evening at the Movies” to close the Bank of America Pops series on May 22, 23 and 24 at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall.
		Conti conducted the Juilliard Symphony Orchestra during the course of the marathon live from Lincoln Center, a first in television sports coverage.
		Conti received a bassoon scholarship from Louisiana State University where he majored in composition and played jazz piano at many of the local night spots.
	www.orsymphony.org /news/0304/0423_PO7_movies.html (1161 words)

	News Release (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Bill Conti, Hollywood composer and longtime conductor of the Oscar Awards ceremonies, will step in to conduct this weekend of Pops concerts, April 23, 24, and 25.
		Conti previously appeared with The Phoenix Symphony in April 1990 and May 1992.
		Tickets to hear Bill Conti and The Phoenix Symphony in a weekend of Pops concerts are $20, $27, $32, $42, and $53, and can be purchased by calling the Phoenix Symphony Box Office at 602.495.1999 or by visiting the Symphony's website at www.phoenixsymphony.org.
	www.phoenixsymphony.org /about/2004-04-21-BillConti.htm (338 words)

	Bill Conti thrills Pops audience - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
		Conti offered a fairly wide range of Mancini's music, from the early score to "The Creature from the Black Lagoon" to "Beaver Valley '37," which led the composer to draw upon his early experience as a flutist playing for the Sons of Italy.
		Conti was impressively poised and expressive at the piano starting the themes from "Days of Wine and Roses" and "Moon River" before the orchestra took up the music.
		Conti's music, including the theme from the James Bond film "For Your Eyes Only," and a medley of his television music consisting of the theme for the 1988 Olympics, "Falcon Crest," "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous," "Dynasty" and "Cagney and Lacey."
	www.pittsburghlive.com /x/tribune-review/entertainment/s_122349.html (533 words)

	Bill Conti - Music Downloads - Online
		Bio: A prolific composer of film and television music, Bill Conti remains most closely associated with his work on the successful Rocky films.
		Conti shot to fame in 1976 with his score for Rocky; the soundtrack album went platinum, and the main theme, "Gonna Fly Now," topped the U.S. pop charts.
		Conti and star Sylvester Stallone subsequently reunited for chapters two, three and five in the Rocky series, as well as 1978's F.I.S.T. and Paradise Alley; in 1981 he scored the James Bond feature For Your Eyes Only, scoring a Top Five hit with the title track, sung by Sheena Easton.
	musicstore.connect.com /mb_us/index.xdmd?statusURL=http://musicstore.connect.com/artist/117/558/72/11755872.html&cookieName=ssVersion (294 words)

	Oregon Symphony: TV and Film Composer Bill Conti to Replace Art Garfunkel
		Bill Conti, one of Hollywood’s most sought-after composers and conductors, has won the Academy Award, thee Emmy Awards, six Emmy nominations and three Oscar nominations, (two for Best Song), and a Grammy nomination.
		Attesting to Conti’s remarkable reputation as a composer and conductor is his having been appointed music director for the Academy Awards ten times, a record achieved by no other person in his field.
		Conti holds and honorary Doctorate of Music from his alma mater, Louisiana State University, and both Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from the internationally famed Juilliard School of Music in New York.
	www.orsymphony.org /news/0304/1031_PO7_change.html (324 words)

	Amazon.com: For Your Eyes Only: Music: Various Artists,Bill Conti (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Conti's "Gunbarrel" opening included on this CD is powerful and announced that this film was indeed a return to a tougher James Bond.
		Bill Conti fills the rest of the score with exciting synthesizers, horns and an outrageous symphony for the rest of the tracks.
		Bill Conti's soundtrack of FOR YOUR EYES ONLY is one of the finest James Bond albums issued especially with the extra tracks now included.
	www.amazon.com /Your-Eyes-Only-Various-Artists/dp/B000087DRL (1527 words)

	Bill Conti Named Musical Director for the 78th Academy Awards®
		Beverly Hills, CA — Oscar®-winning composer Bill Conti will return to the Oscar podium as musical director for the 78th Academy Awards, telecast producer Gil Cates announced today.
		Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements for 2005 will be presented on Sunday, March 5, 2006, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood and Highland®, and televised live by the ABC Television Network beginning at 5 p.m.
		Editors: Please note that a downloadable photo of Bill Conti is available at http://photos.oscars.org.
	www.oscars.org /press/pressreleases/2005/05.12.21a.html (133 words)

	Bill Conti Named Musical Director for the 77th Academy Awards®
		Beverly Hills, CA - Oscar®-winning composer Bill Conti will return to the Oscar podium as musical director for the 77th Academy Awards®, telecast producer Gil Cates announced today.
		This will be the 17th time that Conti has conducted the Academy Awards Orchestra.
		"Bill is a wonderfully talented maestro who always injects the Oscar telecast with music that spreads smiles and touches hearts all around the globe," said Cates.
	www.oscars.org /press/pressreleases/2004/04.12.13.html (165 words)

	Music Preview: Film composer Bill Conti carries a big stick as Oscars conductor
		Conductors are used to cutting off their musicians, but Bill Conti has had the tough task -- perhaps a pleasure to some viewers of the Academy Awards -- of ending the acceptance speeches of Hollywood stars.
		Conti, 60, who has conducted the Academy Awards orchestra 16 times since 1977, will conduct once again at the 75th anniversary Oscar awards ceremony March 23.
		Two years ago, a nobody had just won and I cut him off, and Julia was actually sitting three rows behind me and gasped, "Oh, my gosh." She got up and was so mad that she said a couple of things to me from the stage.
	www.post-gazette.com /ae/20030305conti0305fnp1.asp (1303 words)

	SoundtrackNet : News : Bill Conti scores Rocky Balboa
		Returning to score the film is composer Bill Conti, who has scored all of the Rocky films, with the exception of Rocky IV (scored by Vince DiCola).
		Conti conducted a 44-piece orchestra, with strings and brass recorded separately, through the forty-minutes of underscore.
		Thematically, Conti is using the original themes from the previous Rocky scores that he had done.
	www.soundtrack.net /news/article/?id=783 (672 words)

	Bill Conti
		Though his output in subsequent decades may not have lived up to his early work -- and his scores were not as available on CD as those of other composers -- Conti's association with longtime collaborator John G. Avildsen, combined with frequent television work and constant output, kept the award-winning composer busy.
		In addition to proving an unexpected blockbuster at the box office, the film was also the beginning of an enduring professional relationship between the composer and director Avildsen.
		Although Conti's work in such features as The Right Stuff (1983, for which he took home an Oscar), The Bear (1984), North and South (1985), and Broadcast News (1987) resulted in rich success, his contributions to such Avildsen films as The Karate Kid (1984) and Lean on Me (1989) also brought out the drama.
	www.djangomusic.com /actor_bio.asp?pid=P+85737 (349 words)

	Bill Conti - Films as Composer:
		Bill Conti is a prolific, all-purpose composer-arranger who in his thirty-plus year career has written musical themes for every conceivable medium and genre: blockbuster and B-list Hollywood action-adventures and comedies; television series and mini-series; independent and foreign-language productions; and even television commercials, specials, and news and variety programs.
		Musically-speaking, Conti's overall score is neither complex nor creative, but it is undeniably effective in imparting a mood of self-confidence and triumph.
		As a composer working in a commercial medium, Conti is as pragmatic as he is prolific.
	www.filmreference.com /Writers-and-Production-Artists-Ch-De/Conti-Bill.html (1488 words)

	ASMAC - Bill Conti (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Bill Conti, recipient of ASMAC's 1999 Golden Score Award, is one of Hollywood's most respected composers and conductors for both film and television.
		His compositions have sold in excess of eight million albums, and his credits include the unforgettable "Rocky" theme, "The Thomas Crown Affair," and "Broadcast News." Tributes to Conti's prolific body of work include an Oscar for "The Right Stuff" and Emmys for two of his fourteen years as Musical Director for the Academy Awards.
		Our Irwin Kostal Award recipient, Sid Ramin began his illustrious career with his lifelong friendship with Leonard Bernstein, and an Oscar for his arrangements for "West Side Story," which he shared with Irv Kostal.
	www.asmac.org /HTML.PAGES/6.MEMBER_SPOTLIGHT/MEMBERS/conti_bill.html (209 words)

	Bill Conti - AOL Music
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	music.aol.com /artist/bill-conti/38042/main (146 words)

	Amazon.com: Rocky: Original Motion Picture Score: Music: Bill Conti (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		And if Bill Conti's horn-fanfare theme has become an instantly evocative cliché, it's only because it fit the proceedings so damned well, like a clenched fist in a boxing glove--or a slice of Velveeta on a Ritz cracker.
		Bill Conti's score doesn't just enhance the film it actually caused the film to be altered for the better (the final scene was rewritten and reshot to suit Conti's music).
		Bill Conti composed some great music on this album.
	www.amazon.com /Rocky-Original-Motion-Picture-Score/dp/B000002U8Y (1916 words)

	eBay - bill conti, Records, CDs items on eBay.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Bill Conti: LOCK UP-1200 Unit Collectors Edition OST CD
		BILL CONTI - For Your Eyes Only [Remastered]
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	search-desc.ebay.com /search/search.dll?query=bill+conti&newu=1&krd=1 (322 words)

	Bill Conti — Infoplease.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		They're goin' for the gold; Conti's associate dealer program catering to multi-branders who also may belong to other groups.(Special......
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		Conti sets up Korean JV in truck airsprings: airsprings unit will gain Conti a share in the Asian market.
	www.infoplease.com /ipea/A0762155.html (265 words)

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