Husband and wife Bruce and Belinda Broughton have many lifetimes of musical experiences to share between the two of them. Bruce scored many TV shows and movies that you may have heard of, like Silverado, Young Sherlock Holmes, The Rescuers Down Under, and most recently, Seth McFarland’s sci-fi series, The Orville. Over the last several decades, he’s also been honing his craft outside the film music world, with pieces like his "Oboe Concerto" and his recent "String Theory," a string orchestral work that focuses on different combinations of string orchestral writing.

His wife, Belinda, has served as the concertmaster for many of Hollywood’s A-list composers, including Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard.

In 2013, I studied with Bruce during my senior year at USC in Los Angeles.

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Bruce’s website: https://brucebroughton.com/00:00:00 Intro
00:01:13 Film vs. concert music
00:04:29 How Bruce began composing for Belinda
00:07:07 “String Theory,” for string orchestra
00:09:38 Orchestration
00:14:46 Style
00:18:26 Contemporary music techniques
00:22:09 Hans Zimmer
00:24:20 Working for directors
00:27:09 Concert music
00:29:40 “And On the Sixth Day, II.,” for oboe and orchestra
00:33:23 Is there a divide between concert and film music?
00:36:14 Concertos
00:38:46 Sight reading at the Hollywood Studios
00:43:10 Should composers orchestrate?
00:49:40 John Powell
00:51:33 Studio musicians
00:56:00 Film music concerts
01:02:36 DAW
01:06:55 Concert composers that write for film

Bruce Broughton’s biography (edited):

Bruce Broughton is best known for his many motion picture scores, including Silverado, Tombstone, The Rescuers Down Under, The Presidio, Miracle on 34th Street, the Homeward Bound adventures and Harry and the Hendersons. His television themes include The Orville, JAG, Steven Spielberg’s Tiny Toon Adventures and Dinosaurs. With 24 nominations, Broughton has won a record 10 Emmy awards. His score to Silverado was Oscar-nominated, and his score to Young Sherlock Holmes was nominated for a Grammy. His music has accompanied many of the Disney theme park attractions throughout the world, and his score for Heart of Darkness was the first recorded orchestral score for a video game. In the spring of 2016, he arranged a commercial album of songs from motion pictures and Broadway for the multi-talented Seth MacFarlane.

Many of Broughton’s concert works have been performed by the Cleveland Orchestra; the Chicago, Seattle and National Symphonies; the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra; the Sinfonia of London; and the Hollywood Bowl. These have included Fanfare for 16 Horns, a joint commission by the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the International Horn Society premiered at the Hollywood Bowl; Modular Music, composed for the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra; the children’s fantasy The Magic Horn; In the World of Spirits and A Celebration Overture are among his commissioned works for symphonic winds; and Fanfares, Marches, Hymns and Finale and Masters of Space and Time are among his works for brass. Broughton’s Heroes has been chosen as the 2020 Championship Section Final for The National Brass Band Championships of Great Britain.

Belinda Broughton’s biography (edited):

Belinda Broughton began performing violin concertos as a child with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. At 18, having moved to London three years earlier to study, she joined the 1st Violins of the London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO), the youngest ever to do so. She also joined the 1st violins of the London Symphony Orchestra touring Russia then recording her first ever movie score with them, “Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back.”