To install click the Add extension button. That's it.

The source code for the WIKI 2 extension is being checked by specialists of the Mozilla Foundation, Google, and Apple. You could also do it yourself at any point in time.

4,5
Kelly Slayton
Congratulations on this excellent venture… what a great idea!
Alexander Grigorievskiy
I use WIKI 2 every day and almost forgot how the original Wikipedia looks like.
Live Statistics
English Articles
Improved in 24 Hours
Added in 24 Hours
What we do. Every page goes through several hundred of perfecting techniques; in live mode. Quite the same Wikipedia. Just better.
.
Leo
Newton
Brights
Milds

Herschel Burke Gilbert

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Herschel Burke Gilbert
Born(1918-04-20)April 20, 1918
DiedJune 8, 2003(2003-06-08) (aged 85)
Alma materUniversity of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
Juilliard School of Music
SpouseTrudy Gilbert (married sixty years at his death)
ChildrenToby G. Bernstein
Gwen G. Olson
John Gilbert
Paul Gilbert

Herschel Burke Gilbert (April 20, 1918 – June 8, 2003) was an American orchestrator, musical supervisor, and composer of film and television scores and theme songs, including The Rifleman (starring Chuck Connors), Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater, and The Detectives Starring Robert Taylor.[1] Gilbert once estimated that his compositions had been used in at least three thousand individual episodes of various television series.

YouTube Encyclopedic

  • 1/3
    Views:
    21 510
    817
    2 096
  • The Rifleman Theme Song Medley
  • June Waltz
  • The Slap

Transcription

Early years and education

Gilbert was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Samuel Gilbert and Bertha Shevinsky, both born in the Russian Empire.[2][3] At the age of nine, he began studying the violin in Shorewood in Milwaukee County. By the time he was 15, he had formed his own dance band.[4] He attended Milwaukee State Teachers College (now University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee) and studied for four years: two as an undergraduate and two as a graduate, from 1939–1943 at the Juilliard School of Music in New York City.[5] After Juilliard, Gilbert won a music scholarship to the Berkshire Music Festival in Massachusetts, where he studied under Aaron Copland and Leonard Bernstein. He also played the viola with bandleader Harry James.

Television and film scoring

He composed many instrumental theme songs heard on American television through the 1950s and 1960s, including The Rifleman, Michael Shayne, The Lawless Years, Wanted: Dead or Alive, Stories of the Century, The Dick Powell Show, Four Star Playhouse, The DuPont Show with June Allyson, The Detectives Starring Robert Taylor, The Westerner, Mrs. G. Goes to College, Law of the Plainsman, Target: The Corruptors!, Man with a Camera, and Burke's Law.[6] Many of these were TV series produced by Four Star Television when Gilbert was a music director.

In addition to the main theme songs, Gilbert also composed library music cues used in many TV series episodes, including episodes of Gunsmoke, The Big Valley, The Adventures of Superman, Leave It to Beaver, Johnny Ringo, Harrigan and Son, McKeever and the Colonel, Gilligan's Island and Perry Mason. During his library music years, he formed a publishing company named for his sons "John Paul Music" to collect ASCAP publisher royalties.

His film work includes It's a Wonderful Life (1947), The Jackie Robinson Story (1950), The Thief (1952), Carmen Jones (1954), It Came from Beneath the Sea (1954), Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956), No Place to Hide (1956), Comanche (1956), Slaughter On Tenth Avenue (1957), Sam Whiskey (1969), I Dismember Mama (1974), and The Witch Who Came from the Sea (1976).[6]

Later years

Gilbert died in Los Angeles from complications of a stroke. He was survived by his wife, Trudy; daughters Toby G. Bernstein and Gwen Olson; sons John and Paul; and three grandchildren.[7]

References

  1. ^ Burlingame, Jon (2003-06-13). "FMS: Feature ["Rifleman" Composer Herschel Burke Gilbert Dead at 85]". Filmmusicsociety.org. Retrieved 2011-09-19.
  2. ^ U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007
  3. ^ U.S. 1920 Federal Census
  4. ^ "Herschel Burke Gilbert". Laurelrecord.com. Retrieved 2011-09-19.
  5. ^ "Herschel Burke Gilbert Obituary". Laurelrecord.com. Retrieved 2011-09-19.
  6. ^ a b "Herschel Burke Gilbert". findagrave.com. Retrieved September 19, 2011.
  7. ^ "Dennis McLellan, "Herschel Gilbert, 85; Wrote, Arranged Music for Movies, TV," June 14, 2003". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved September 19, 2011.
This page was last edited on 29 January 2023, at 22:41
Basis of this page is in Wikipedia. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported License. Non-text media are available under their specified licenses. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. WIKI 2 is an independent company and has no affiliation with Wikimedia Foundation.