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.
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.
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.
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 !
@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. 😬
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!!!!!!
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
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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 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
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.
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!
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
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...
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 !
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.
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'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
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 .
Oh my God, I've been looking for this for a long time!!! Thank you so much!!! Now if only someone would kindly upload some concerts of Jerry Goldsmith's I would be very grateful... Long live the masters of film music!!!
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.
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: czcams.com/video/v40IjawyW2k/video.html
merçi pour cette vidéo ou l'on voit Elmer Bernstein dirigeait sa plus célèbre musique de film Les 7 Mercenaires que j'ecoute toujours avec un réel plaisir
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)
Great contemporary composers: Elmer Bernstein, John Williams, Ennio Morricone. I can't pick a favorite. I like that he is having fun and is directing with no score.
***** Jerry Goldsmith was one of a kind. Nobody came close to his genius. I don't know if you're on twitter but Bear McCreary who was a student of Elmer Bernstein tweeted that Elmer told him back in 1999 that "Jerry Goldsmith is the #1 composer working now. He's open to new ideas and always inventing." #ElmerWisdom. Now that's high praise
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Me too
Him and Jerry Goldsmith were just the greatest, I wish Film music was like this again, instead it's just Hans Zimmer.
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 !
Absolutely magnificent!!!!
There is nothing more amazing than see a composer conducting his own music. Especially if that man is the great Elmer Bernstein.
Brilliant score to my favourite film of all time
@@telboyscott2640 Also for one of the most memorable commercial of all time ("Come to the Marlboro County!!")
@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. 😬
What a movie and sound track .. from a time when America was full of hope
I would've been the first one standing ..
Greatest Western theme ever !.
One of the finest compositions ever to grace my ears. The man was a genius.
This man found a way to make all the soaring power of the real American West + "the West of the Imagnination" live in a song!
Fabulous!
The best score in movie history.
Dino T yes
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....
For me, it ties with the score from Big Jake!
@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!!!!!!
It makes you feel alive
We're missing a lot of good music like this in movies today.
Today we have John Williams. I'd rank him alongside Elmer and not forgetting John Barry who died a few years back.
Which is bs xD a lot of great compsers are still around...
@@michaelchristian5089 don't forget Jerry Goldsmith czcams.com/video/VGfqGfHDncM/video.html who died the same year as Elmer Bernstein.
The really good scores of in my opinion were done by the prolific John Williams who rates up there with Mr Bernstein.
Ouço esse tema de Elmer há mais de 50 anos e posso afirmar, se eu viver até 100 anos vou continuar ouvindo como se fosse a primeira vez 🎼❤️
One of the the most uplifting sounds ever so get up and go brilliant
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
This theme brings back such childhood memories.
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 fully agree with you.
I agree as well!
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.
If I was there, I think I'd give a standing ovation and not care if anybody else didn't stand up.
I think he had one of the best conducting styles, not to mention that he was a genius as a composer. May his memory be eternal!
SUPERB! Not only that its the best Western Movie of all time but great theme song! Brilliant Mr. Bernstein truly MAGNIFICENT!
Never get enough of this good feeling and powerful music. Fantabulous!
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.
I was watching this movie from i was a little girl now am 61, and I watched it same way i really love it 😊
This movie was released in 1960 before you were born. How come ?
@@Sandoz-tq7qj i don't know 😃😃 but I love it especially the one with Kris
Bravo! what a magnificent composition by the great maestro,Elmer Bernstein !...
This music could bring world peace 🙂
The greatest of all Western themes.
One of the best pieces of music ever written!
Yes! I use it for slideshows for the Norwegian waterfalls
@@47einar Also used for one of the most memorable commercial of all time ("Come to the Marlboro County!!")
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
Yes that's the most wonderful music, ever. And I love how you can literally hear every instrument. in its own splinder 🙂 !
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
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.
I really admire this beautiful film score and I can always listen to it over and over for many times.
Still takes my breath clean away, ever since I first saw this incredible film in 1962!
Absolutely MAGNIFICENT!
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.
This NEVER fails to brighten my day. THANK YOU ELMER!!!!!
When you watch the movie brings chills up your forearm.awesome
Man, that just puts a smile on my face, every time I hear that piece.
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.
The tempo is just perfect. I would have liked to be there just to watch him.
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 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
He and Jerry Goldsmith were robbed, John Williams was the only one who got the recognition that was deserved.
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Elmer's form conducting is so sharp and vibrant ... as is the music and orchestra ... genuis Bernstein
What else can I say?
That was MAGNIFICENT!!!
When I have go back with time... I never forget how it was so sweet...
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.
Bravo! One of the best Western theme songs of all times!
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!
+steve hale Yes sure did, I feel the best musical score for Western Movie ever. Loved it!
steve hale fit the movie like a glove
One of the greatest film themes of all time
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
Best Western movie soundtrack ever written
Masterpiece from a master artist.....
What a beautiful piece of music.
There will never be an another Elmer. These folks are stamped out 1 in a hundred million. Just like great athletes and so on.. my own theory.
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...
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 !
A magnificent score for a magnificent film.
Going to the Royal Albert Hall to listen to his music conducted by his son ..in June .cant wait
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.
One of the thumbs down was from the grand son of the guy that got knifed by James Coburn.
Calvera's bandits!
@@Otokichi786 probably the one that dueled him?
If I had only one piece of music I could hear from no on, this is it ... hands down.
The Maestros and Masters of the 17th and 18th centuries would be impressed!
Goose bumps every time!😅
The only thing I ever found on CZcams that merits the rating 'Awesome'.
👏 BRAV-OOOOO 👏 BRILLIANT 👏 OUR ALL-TIME 😍 FAVORITE 😍 Nothing else even REMOTELY comes close 👏
The epitaph of the fine composer Mr Elmer Bernstein ,,,,greatly missed...........
Soundtrack by Elmer Bernstein the best The Magnificent Seven
Che Genio questo Elmer! stupenda musica
condivido,
pura emozione !
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
What a movie-what a theme!!
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
If this music does not inspire you, you've been dead for three days. ..
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 .
As soon as the music started to play I could picture Steve McQueen and Yul Brenner on their horses. Great movie with the best theme song.
Loved this guy since I heard to Kill a mocking bird. Followed his music ever since then. He died last year. Left some great music behind. Love u Elm.
Oh my God, I've been looking for this for a long time!!! Thank you so much!!! Now if only someone would kindly upload some concerts of Jerry Goldsmith's I would be very grateful... Long live the masters of film music!!!
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.
A glorious performance of a great tune, Ernie
Immer wieder grandios.
Unvergesslicher Sound.
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:
czcams.com/video/v40IjawyW2k/video.html
One of my Best Movie. Music no word .............wow
FANTASTIC !!!!!
Jeden z mistrzów...
Thank God for this great musician! Im riding and ill go fishing later
The greatest theme of the century
yes, along with Elmer's classic National Geographic theme ~ : - )
Still amazing ... The man himself.. I'm here in 2019
merçi pour cette vidéo ou l'on voit Elmer Bernstein dirigeait sa plus célèbre musique de film Les 7 Mercenaires que j'ecoute toujours avec un réel plaisir
Absolutely magnificent! I'm here 2020
The good old style conducting school! PERFECT!
Surely the greatest movie theme of them all.
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)
I always considered Elmer, John Sturges, Bronson, McQueen and Cogburn family
Gorgeous!
Great contemporary composers: Elmer Bernstein, John Williams, Ennio Morricone.
I can't pick a favorite.
I like that he is having fun and is directing with no score.
They are all great maestros. Hard to pick just one.
Add to that John Barry and Jerry Goldsmith. All time greats.
ChuckRazor what about joe hisaishi?
ChuckRazor what about joe hisaishi?
*****
Jerry Goldsmith was one of a kind. Nobody came close to his genius. I don't know if you're on twitter but Bear McCreary who was a student of Elmer Bernstein tweeted that Elmer told him back in 1999 that "Jerry Goldsmith is the #1 composer working now. He's open to new ideas and always inventing." #ElmerWisdom. Now that's high praise
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.
Magnificent Elmer... 👏👏👏👏
One of his less appreciated scores was for The Man With the Golden Arm. Beautifully melodic and gorgeous themes with Shelly Mann drum solos.
SUPER MUSIK.. IMMER WIEDER SCHÖN ZUM ANHÖREN....
bravo legendary maestro Elmer Bernstein
a classic song from a classic man
It's great to see Bernstien himself conducting. Impressive.
When I hear this, I remember I'll never be as cool as that