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3 unusual facts about Bruce Broughton


Hollywood in Vienna

Al Jarreau, Lalo Schifrin, Natalia Ushakova, Bruce Broughton, David Arnold, Alan Silvestri, Howard Shore, Harald Kloser, Alexander Frey, Barbara Broccoli, John Mauceri, Kate Barry, Klaus Badelt, Nicholas Dodd, Rick Porras, Gedeon Burkhard, John Axelrod, Kevin Costner, John Barry, Patrick Doyle, John Powell, Robert Dornhelm, Rebekka Bakken, Alastair King, Christian Kolonovits, among others.

Sarrusophone

Bruce Broughton made extensive use of a contrabass sarrusophone in his score for the film Tombstone.

Wayne Kaatz

In 1991, Kaatz, Tom Ruegger, and Bruce Broughton shared the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Song for the Tiny Toon Adventures main title theme.


Sandy Thorburn

He is also one of a very few Canadian academics who have studied with notable film composers Jerry Goldsmith, John Williams, Bruce Broughton, Henry Mancini and Buddy Baker at the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music in composition for motion pictures and television.

The Boy Who Could Fly

The score was composed and conducted by Bruce Broughton; Varèse Sarabande released a re-recording of highlights in 1986, performed by the Sinfonia of London and conducted by the composer.


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