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    • Source: Scott Harper (composer)

      • Scott Elder Harper (born Scott Gleckler; December 22, 1952) is an American composer, arranger and musician for motion picture and television scores and orchestra, as well as a multi-instrumentalist, conductor, and session-player for pop music. With a background in popular music, Harper has composed theater pieces, oratorios, orchestral chamber works, and dynamic and diverse ensemble arrangements with various instrumental combinations for popular recording artists and film scores alike. His work includes conducting and album arrangements for Celine Dion, Cher, and Olivia Newton-John. He has performed on multiple original motion picture soundtracks, such as E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1983), Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) — scored by John Williams — and The Right Stuff (1983), by Bill Conti, as a double bass player in the Hollywood Studio Symphony Orchestra. He has also composed several original scores for documentary feature films.


      Biography


      Scott E. Harper was born in Pasadena, California, to David Gleckler and Sarah Lee. He has two brothers, Steve and Jim, and a sister, Milly. In 1975, Scott attended the Royal College of Music in London for composition, cello, and piano, before majoring in double bass. He graduated with honors in 1977 in only two years. The Royal College of Music awarded him the Cobbett Prize for "Freer Thou", his composition with clarinet, violoncello, and piano.
      His feature film compositions include Eat and Run, Orion's Belt, Rendez-vous, Reborn, To Hell With Love. A film critic states in Variety magazine that "Movies benefit greatly from Scott Harper's jazz-inflected scores because the score infectiously adds wily, contrapuntal undertones and smart upbeat riffs to the action". Harper wrote the original underscores to numerous feature-length documentary specials during the mid-1980s. From adventurous National Geographic Specials to comedy prime-time TV series, Harper composed music with variety in style to a wide-range audience. In 1986, Scott Harper and co-writer Lyn Murray were awarded an Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Music Composition for the National Geographic Special: Miraculous Machines. Then in 1990, Special BMI Awards were honoring Composers work in film and prime-time television. Harper was awarded a second Emmy in the Music Categories for "Amazon, Land of The Flooded Forest", a National Geographic Special on PBS.
      Harper's compositions won the Sunny Awards (GTE) competition, including 1st Place in the Campaign category and 1st place in the Music category.
      In 1980, he changed his name from Gleckler to Harper.
      Harper married Susan Picking Harper in 1994. They have a daughter named Lauralee.


      Discography




      = Original motion picture soundtracks

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      Performances with the Hollywood Studio Symphony Orchestra

      2018: Commando (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) – bass player
      2008: Indiana Jones: The Complete Soundtracks Collection (Original Motion Picture Soundtracks) – bass player
      1987: Harry and the Hendersons (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) – bass player
      1984: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) – bass player
      1983: The Right Stuff (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) – bass player
      1983: E.T., the Extraterrestrial (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) – Double bass player


      = Film and TV music compositions

      =
      1999: The Free Willy Story – Keiko's Journey Home (TV movie) – composer
      1998: To Hell With Love (feature film) – composer
      1994: Roseanne: An Unauthorized Biography (TV movie) – composer
      1993: Phenom (TV series) – composer, 2 episodes
      "Crazy for You" (1993)
      "Answered Prayers" (1993) – composer
      1992: Hearts Are Wild (TV series) – composer
      1991: Night Games (film) – composer
      1991: The Point! (film) – composer
      1990: A Woman's Heart (film short) – composer
      1989: Serengeti Diary (TV film) – composer of "a lovely, subdued score"
      1987: Eat & Run (feature film)


      = Documentary scores

      =
      2008: Proof of Propaganda (documentary) – composer
      2008: Food Fight (documentary) – composer
      1993: Wilderness: The Last Stand (documentary) – 3 episodes
      1990–1992: World of Discovery (documentary TV series) – composer; 2 episodes:
      "Realm of the Serpent" (1992)
      "Inventors: Out Of Their Minds" (1990)
      1992: Survive Siberia (documentary TV film) – composer
      1990: The Urban Gorilla (documentary TV film) – composer
      1990: Amazon: Land of the Flooded Forest (documentary TV film) – Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Music & Composition
      1985–1989: National Geographic Specials (documentary feature film TV series):
      "Those Wonderful Dogs" (1989) – composer
      "Mysteries of Mankind" (1988) – composer
      "The Grizzlies" (1987) – composer
      "Miraculous Machines" (1985) – composer; Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Music & Composition
      1987: The Grizzlies (documentary TV film)


      = Popular music

      =
      2008: Three Graces, Three Graces – orchestration, string arrangements
      2005: Chronicles, Cher -album arrangements
      2003: A Time for the Soul, Winard Harper – percussion
      2002: Memphis Rockabillies: Hillbillies and Honky Tonkers – composer
      2002: The Slash Recordings, The Blasters – composer
      2002: The Colour of My Love, Celine Dion – conductor, string arrangements, string conductor
      1999: Say Man!, Bill Stuve – composer
      1998: Backtracking: The Duke Recordings, Vol. 2, Junior Parker – composer
      1997: Ricky Jones, Ricky Jones – conductor, orchestral arrangements
      1997: Ultimatum, Ultimatum – engineer
      1996: Chapters, Steve Chapman – guitar (bass)
      1996: Kissing Rain, Roch Voisine – conductor, string arrangements
      1994: Federico Mompou: Music for Piano, Michel Wagemans – audio engineer
      1993: The Colour of My Love, Celine Dion – string arrangements, string conductor
      1992: Deeper Than A River, Back to Basics
      1991: Love Hurts, Cher – album arrangements


      = Performances

      =
      1983: Karen Akers


      Awards




      References




      External links


      Full Score Productions – official website
      Scott Harper discography at Discogs
      Scott Harper at IMDb
      "Scott Harper-Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved January 26, 2018.
      "Scott Elder Harper". BMI Repertoire. Retrieved December 12, 2018.

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