I’m 81 years old and I remember watching this movie in the theater when it first came out. The whole thing, the music, the show, all the characters, just blew me away. In CinemaScope with a really good sound system. Everyone was talking about it. I was, I think, in high school at the time. It was the ultimate western.
Jerry, I was 15 when I saw the great movie the week it reached the theaters. We probably sat in the fifth or sixth row and the opening highly recognizable theme just blew us all away. In the 64 years since, I doubt there has been a better ensemble cast for anything coming out of Hollywood.
@LGranthamsHeir I heard a tiny bit of this piece at the very end of The Good Doctor tonight. I was searching all over for "BEEF! It's What's For Dinner!" Also a beautiful tune, but the WRONG beautiful tune. 😬
Having grown up 40 years ago on a steady diet of rock music I've always felt this is arguably the greatest piece of music ever made and certainly one the most iconic. Primarily the beginning and ending signature sections. When you hear it, you know it and there's no mistaking it. Incredible.
I must have come back to this site a dozen or more times, not because the sound quality is so good, but because "the"man" himself is directing his creation. Some music is magic - this music is magic. Thank you Mr. Bernstein.
Same here - I can't even imagine being able to conduct a piece of music that I had written - and this being what you wrote? So happy for him and what a blessing for us !
The most rousing, memorable music ever composed for a Western. Who hasn't heard this incredible music before? Btw, I loved the way they place the audience so close to the "action," right next to the actual musicians. I think it really adds to the interactive nature of musical performance. They should do this more often.
Nothing like a great western. You always know who the good guys are and who the bad guys are. That is why they make very few westerns these days. Only a handful of stars are man enough to play these roles. Amen.
Dino T without a doubt, it's a perfect musical score, and nobody makes them like this anymore. Remake film was okay but original line up of famous actors were out of this world and will never be matched again....
@walt7500 Come 200 years from now this song will be like "The William Tell Overture," aka the theme from "The Lone Ranger." I personally love both of these songs equally!!!!!!
@@michaelchristian5089 don't forget Jerry Goldsmith ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VGfqGfHDncM.html who died the same year as Elmer Bernstein.
LIKE I SAID THIS MANY TIMES BEFORE...THE THEME SONG FROM THE OUTSTANDING WESTERN "THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN" IS NOT ONLY THE GREATEST WESTERN THEME SONG EVER RECORDED BUT THAT MASTERPIECE IS THE GREATEST WESTERN THEME IN HISTORY OF CINEMA...THERE IS NOTHING OUT THERE THAT EVEN COMES CLOSE!!!!!! THANK YOU FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART...THE LATE ELMER BERNSTEIN...YOU WERE GOD-DAMN MAGNIFICENT!!!!!!! DOC
This wonderful theme is right up there for me with Jerome Moross's _The Big Country_ and the incidental music for both movies is also outstanding. If you ever find yourself down in the dumps, find a place to be alone, don some earphones, turn up the volume, close your eyes... and give this a listen.
I have also found my self returning to review this video..one thing I love is how the music 🎶 seem to I'll day gallop from one horn section to the other like the 7did in the movie like rider's moving on just a great musician love this
Oh my God!! As a kid I watched the movie and this beautiful music it is like watching the moving with all the beautiful cast all over again!! Soo cool!!
Bernstein really should have won an Academy Award for this wonderful score for The Magnificent Seven; it was the equivalent of a character in the film and it enhanced the performances of Brynner, McQueen, et al. He also should have won for his score for To Kill A Mockingbird. The film that he ultimately won for-Thoroughly Modern Millie, was the equivalent of a consolation prize.
The music is so evocative, but even more wonderful is to see the composer conducting his own iconic music. Being at the Proms - the greatest music festival in the world - adds to it too. It feels historic, and is.
We all shared The Great Escape and The Magnificent 7 . We shared often. When I wasnt practicing my clarinet for a concert I would walk around playing the great escape
Pretty fkn awesome but the coolest thing is that he composed this music. A master without fail. It stirred me as a kid and still does fifty years later!
Bernstein should have won an Academy Award for best original score for Sturges' "The Magnificent Seven". the entire score was memorable and was tantamount to another character in the film. His scores for "To Kill A Mockingbird " and for "The Great Escape" were also outstanding.
ABSOLUTELY AGREE WITH YOU...THE LATE ELMER BERNSTEIN'S MUSICAL SCORE FROM "THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN" IS THE BEST WESTERN MOVIE THEME SONG EVER RECORDED!!!!! IT WILL ALWAYS STAND THE TEST OF TIME!!!!! A DAMN CLASSIC!!!!! DOC
THE LATE ELMER BERNSTEIN COMPOSED SOME OF THE GREATEST WESTERN THEME SONGS EVER RECORDED!!! OBVIOUSLY, HIS GREATEST WAS ONE OF THE BEST WESTERNS EVER FILMED..."THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN"!!! WOW!!! MAY THE ALMIGHTY BLESS ALL OF THOSE GUYS FOR GIVING GIVING "US" A GOD-DAMN CLASSIC!!! THAT...ALSO...INCLUDES THE LATE DIRECTOR (JOHN STURGES) AND OF COURSE, THE LATE ELMER BERNSTEIN!!! THANK YOU, GUYS...YOU WERE ALL MAGNIFICENT!!! REST IN PEACE!!! DOC
Elmer Bernstein brought so much joy to movies! He had great range, too. This is one of his most famous film scores, if not THE most famous of them, but he also composed the score for THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, THE GREAT ESCAPE, and TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD--talk about range! One of his not-so-famous scores, for SOME CAME RUNNING, is both dramatic and lyrical. A more recent score, for THE AGE OF INNOCENCE, is beautiful and haunting.
You're right. Nothing beats the composer conducting his own piece himself. This is a rare opportunity of watching the maestro in action. Kudos to Geoffers008 for sharing with us this wonderful video.
Absolutely, positively breathtaking - and even better than the original motion picture soundtrack from 1960, which I grew up listening to...when I wasn't busy watching the four Mag7 movies on TV, that is! And I also see that we have 38 thumbs-down indications. That means 38 people who wouldn't know a fantastic piece of music from their elbows.
Great music. I can listen to this over and over. Such a brilliant piece of work. This was and still is one of my favorite films in large part because of this magnificent score. Elmer Bernstein was a genius.
In the 60s a young kid wrote to Hollywood and asked "why havent they brought the music out of the film" the reply was "because there is no recognisable tune" when Elmer heard this he said he thought there were several, then a vinyl LP came out then a cd
I so love this master piece, I had the CD playing and a powerful, reliable car, I was in southern Indiana when this came on, my mom thought I seemed to be going "a little" fast, I looked down and was doing, YEAH 80 mph!! I could have sworn that I was on a big powerful majestic horse!! That's what a great car and CD(and not having the mister with me) can do...
Surely the greatest western movie theme ever. However, if you've got the facility, play the short piece (during the third minute of this clip) that accompanies the trip back down the hill in the empty hearse, at full blast, and visualize that part of the movie. It will make your spine tingle! This is the only time in the movie it is heard.
Great to listen to different orchestras you can discover parts not always sonically apparent yet apparently original or brought out by the conductors interpretation of the score .
This theme hasnt left me mesmerized in 20 years now...as i look back now, its not just a theme...but an ODE TO HUMAN CIVILIZATION.Elmer Bernstein..may your creation live till the end of days.
Juste fantastique. A la sortie du film, mon père m'a emmené voir les 7 ! J'étais pas grand. J'en suis ressorti plus grand. Et quelle musique ! Merci monsieur Bernstein !
All Western Genre (from movies up to video games with Western theme on it) owe a debt to this music. For this theme literally represents the spirit of Wild West.
While it's true that TM7 was influential in promulgating the sound of the West, it was actually Elmer Bernstein's teacher and mentor, Aaron Copland that invented and composed the seeds that would become the basis for the music of the West and the Americana in general: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-v40IjawyW2k.html
I'm such a wuss, I get a lump in the throat with the death scenes in my head. Thats what great sound tracks do, they brig all the emotion of the movie and double it. Just superb, thanks for posting
Whenever we did anything really cool, this was our song, our music, which was played over all of the speakers everywhere on the ship, particularly the topside speakers. Signed, the Sailors of the Magnificent Seven: USS Henry B Wilson, (DDG-7)
People who I use to work with, ask me why I like old movies compare today, besides the actors of that time. I said listen to the sound track good music and good film.
