Larry Timm - April 30, 2010
Larry Timm -- Dr. Larry M. Timm is an author, professor, lecturer, producer, and Hollywood studio musician. His book THE SOUL OF CINEMA, published by Prentice-Hall, is the standard text used by professors at their universities throughout the United States and in various countries around the world as varied as Iceland, Argentina, and Israel. He has been a professor of music at California State University in Fullerton for the last 33 years after having earned two Masters degrees and a Doctorate at Yale University.
He is a much in demand guest speaker at various film music conferences and film festivals. Dr, Timm was recently seen as a keynote speaker in Hamilton, Montana in their "Elements in Film Making" series at the historic Roxy movie theater. Timm has produced televised concerts for Sony and CBS. One of these concerts was at the famous Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles and featured Debbie Reynolds as Master of Ceremonies along with the Beach Boys, Gaelic Storm (the Irish band seen in the movie TITANIC) and Bill Conti and the Academy Award Orchestra, playing music from his movies and television shows. Dr. Timm was also a keynote speaker at the film festival in Spokane, Washington and at the Idaho Film Festival.
Dr. Timm was seen at the Kodak Theater for the MOVIES ROCK special on movie music televised nationally on CBS. This year, Dr. Timm was seen by hundreds of millions of people world-wide on the Los Angeles based Supreme Master Television station which broadcasts 24 hours a day, translating their programs into 70 different languages. The 2 part series was called "The Wonders of Film Music with Dr. Larry Timm" and "Making Magic: On Film Music with Dr. Larry Timm." He has been an active Hollywood studio musician for over 40 years. His oboe and English horn solos have been heard in over 300 television and motion picture soundtracks.
Dr. Timm is very passionate about sharing film music appreciation with people and feels that people will look back on some of the movie music of the last one hundred years and consider it to be the classical music of that generation.