Bill Conti

Imex Task 3:
Tomas Lawson 8 DE

1. Bill Conti: Bill Conti was born on the 13 of April 1942, in Rhode Island USA. He Graduated from the North Miami High School in 1959. He studied music and composing at the Julliard School of Music.

He is well known for his music which was used in the Rocky Movies (Gonna Fly Now, Going The Distance To The Final Bell), he also has had his music used in films like: The Karate Kid 1,2 and 3, For Your Eyes Only (James Bond) and the Right Stuff. He has been awarded the Academy Award for the Best Original Music Score in 1984 for his music in the ‘Right Stuff’. He also received the Primetime Emmy Award for Most Outstanding music in 1992, 1998 and 2002. His debut album in 1976 was surprisingly his Rocky songs. This is extremely amazing because it shows the brilliance in Bill’s work and how good he is at it. He has received 3 golden globe nomination and 13 Emmy nominations. Bill was later on inducted into the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame in April 2008 in the LSU Union Theatre. To this day he is regarded as a very successful composer. Bill Conti’s music brings great energy and really gets you pumped. For example the Rocky theme song builds up and up and up to the very top and then goes bang. He achieves this by using very high notes on instruments like the trumpet and tuba which creates the suspense and builds up to the climax. If you have watched the rocky movie, the music almost perfectly ties in with the movie because when he is going for a run, he starts off running at a slow and consistent pace. He then starts to start running faster and at the same time the music starts to build up as well.

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