Alan Bergman, The Decorated Lyricist Who Over the Course of Seven Decades Penned Songs Including “The Windmills of Your Mind,” “The Way We Were,” and “You Don’t Bring Me Flowers” with Wife Marilyn Bergman, Has Daed. He was 99 years previous.
Bergman died late in his dwelling in Los Angeles, the spokesman for the Ken Sunshine household confirmed in a declaration on the Times on Friday. The singer -songwriter “suffered from respiratory points” in latest months, however has remained nonetheless in his songwriting “Till the Louch”.
Originally from Brooklyn, Bergman was higher identified for his collaborations along with his spouse Marilyn, who crossed music, tv and movies. The husband and spouse, after assembly by means of the composer Lew Spence, acquired married in 1958. Together, they wrote the music for quite a lot of excessive -profile acts together with Frank Sinatra, Ray Charles, Quincy Jones, John Williams and Barbra Streisand, with the final one who turned the couple’s muse on the finish.
The Bergmans have been 3 times winners of the Oscar. The couple received their first Oscar in 1969 for the “Windmills of Your Mind” moody, current in “The Thomas Crown Affair”, shared with the French composer Michel Legrand. Their second and third victory Oscar derived from works with Streisand: The Title Song of “The Way We Were” in 1974 (shared with Marvin Hamlisch) and in 1984 for the rating of “Yentl”, shared with Legrand.
The composers and their work have been contenders in keeping with the Oscars, with their contribution to the movies “The Happy Ending”, “Tootsie”, “Yes, Giorgio” and the 1995 remake of “Sabrina” by Billy Wilder additionally receives nomination from the Academy. On the small display screen, the Bergmans have left their private contact on quite a few TV sequence from the 70s to the 90s, offering themed music for exhibits together with “Good Times”, “Alice”, “In The Heat of the Night” and “Maude” by Norman Lear.
In addition to the Oscars, the Bergmans additionally received 4 Emmy, two Golden Globes and two Grammy, together with the Song of the Year prize for “The Way We We Were”.
The profitable songwriters of Oscar Alan and Marilyn Bergman of their dwelling in 2008.
(Lawrence Ok. Ho / Los Angeles Times)
Alan Bergman, born on 11 September 1925 in Brooklyn, was the son of a vendor and knew because the tender age that songwriting was his ardour. He graduated from the North Carolina University of Chapel Hill and continued his college research in music on the UCLA. He labored briefly as a tv director for the WCAU-TV Philadelphia station, however he returned to Los Angeles to completely pursue songwriting, on the behest of the mentor Johnny Mercer.
Alan and Marilyn Bergman are members of the Songwriters Hall of Fame, which assigned the Johnny Mercer Award to 1997. They additionally acquired the Grammy Trustee Award for Lifetime Achievement, the National Academy of Songwriters Lifetime Achievement Award, The National Music Editors Assn. Lifetime Achievement Award and honorary doctorates on the Berklee College of Music and the University of Massachusetts. In 2011, the University of Northern Carolina in Chapel Hill honored Bergman with an illustrious pupil Award.
Marilyn Bergman died in January 2022 from 93 respiratory failure. After his dying, Alan continued to work, extra not too long ago collaborating with the jazz patarta participant Pat Metheny, who will document his 9 songs co-scripted with Bergman on the finish of this yr for an album arriving.
Alan Bergman survived her daughter Julie Bergman and nephew Emily Senicaler. It shall be put to relaxation in a non-public burial. The Jazz bakery by Ruth Price introduced originally of this month that he would rejoice Bergman’s hundredth birthday with a tribute concert At the big stage of Santa Monica in September. The efficiency will go on as anticipated, the Times has discovered.
The household asks that the donations be made within the title of Bergman on the Ascap Foundation Alan and Marilyn Bergman Lyric Award and the Johnny Mercer Foundation.
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