Celebrity Biographies
Arthur B Rubinstein
He stood out above all with his work for director John Badham, for whom he composed the music for titles such as “Blue Thunder” and “War Games”. Arthur B. Rubinstein has passed away at the age of 80 on April 23, as a result of cancer.
Born on March 31, 1938, New Yorker Arthur B. Rubinstein began his journey in the 1960s, a decade that he spent creating scores for theatrical productions, and in the 1970s he moved to the small screen, both for telefilms and for episodes of television series. the era, such as Holidays at Sea . He began to stand out in the cinema with My Life Is Mine , in which Richard Dreyfuss plays a sculptor who is left paralyzed after an accident.
It was his first job for John Badham , with whom he would repeat shortly after in the film Blue Thunder about a sophisticated helicopter , where his music received very good reviews for its bizarre use of synthesizers, a very popular instrument at the time. Pleased with the results, Badham regularly turned to him, for titles such as War Games , his biggest hit, Illegal Procedure , In the Crosshairs and At the Appointed Hour .
He didn’t quite stand out among other filmmakers, but he did a good job with the television documentary Filming the War , produced by Steven Spielberg and narrated by Tom Hanks , about newsreel cameras who were in World War II. “Classical music and jazz produce a constant whirlwind of discovery, both sensual and intellectual. As an artist, I have always tried in some way to be a part of that whirlpool,” he stated.
In 1994 he founded the non-governmental organization Symphony in the Glen, together with his wife, Barbara Ferris. The entity dedicated itself for 20 years to organizing free classical music concerts for children. He also dealt with symphonic compositions, such as “Observations”, premiered in 2009 in commemoration of the fourth centenary of Galileo Galiei. He is survived by his wife, and his daughter, Alexandra Nan Rubinstein.