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David Louis Newman was born March 11th, 1954 in Los Angeles, California, a year before brother Thomas Newman -- October 20, 1955. The son of the late Alfred Newman, who died when David was 15, David must have known he had big shoes to fill and thus entered the world of scoring; beginning as a Classically trained Violinist and Conductor and became a accomplish master of the work. "The Newman family is now a dynasty," John Williams told those who had come to dedicate the fabled room of the The Newman Scoring Stage. Thus putting further preasure upon poor little David. "You have the Bachs of Leipzig and the Strausses of Vienna. And now you've got the Newmans of Hollywood," Williams added. The eldest of the sibblings, David began his transition into the world of film scoring by Conducting James Hormer's "Battle Beyond The Stars" and then a Violinist on "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", for which he was uncredited and shortly after all this, he got his first film score composing assigment, scoring "Frankenweenie", a 1984 movie about a dog run over and put back together like Frankenstein. Yeah, a real winner. Moving onto to other TV series for a short span, including"Amazing Stories: The Series", along with his brother Thomas, David soon shot up after that with a Disney animated film, a time-traveling comedy that spawned a sequal and several films, leaving other little Newmans' behind, though Thomas had the honor of Orchestrating on "Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi", a year before David's first known film score. Though David yet again beat Thomas, with his first Orchestration for the aforementioned Horner score. Now while Thomas has seemed to have surpassed David in "Qaulity" films, Louis has gotten more work consistantly each year. But a throne sure to be usurped by one of the many Newman spawns. The Newman bunch is a big one with many composers:
Still composing today, Newman was the first to sign up for the Filmharmonic, a Los Angeles Philharmonic program that commissions film composers to write original music to be performed alongside new short. His first known work in the Filmharmonic was: "Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans" a film from 1927. Performed in 1989 at the Sundance Film Festival, this work was not featured on the DVD -- which instead had another new score by a different composer and leaving most of us to guess what it sounds like (until the 2CD-R bootleg surfaced). "I'm very interested in the combination of classical music with moving images -- film or, maybe in the future, holograms," said once a clearly Star Trek influenced fan Newman. David presumably lives in California somewhere, pulling out his hair at all the work he has and spending quote: "several hours" on the internet each day. Happily married to his wife, Krystyna, for the last 20+ years, Newman is the father of two girls, Diana and a stepdaughter, Brianne. |