Animaniacs

Q&A with Composers

JULIE BERNSTEIN
STEVEN BERNSTEIN

Moderated by JON BURLINGAME (Variety)

Screening Link available upon Registration

YouTube Live Stream Q&A :

THURSDAY, MARCH 25 – 6:30pm PT

They’re back! The Warner brothers, Yakko and Wakko, and the Warner sister Dot have a great time wreaking havoc and mayhem in the lives of everyone they meet. After returning to their beloved home, the Warner Bros. water tower, the siblings waste no time in causing chaos and comic confusion as they run loose through the studio, turning the world into their personal playground. Joining Yakko, Wakko and Dot, fan-favorite characters Pinky and the Brain also return to continue their quest for world domination. TV-PG | 21min

Julie Bernstein has worked in animation as a composer, orchestrator, arranger, conductor, singer, and producer. Animated productions include Animaniacs (both the original and the reboot), Pinky and the Brain, Freakazoid, Histeria!, Tiny Toon Adventures, Baby Looney Toons, Make Way for Noddy, and Toonsylvania. She also co-wrote and provided orchestrations for the features Wakko’s Wish, Tom and Jerry: Blast off to Mars, and the theatrical short Carrotblanca. Julie’s concert music includes “Snapshots” co-written with her husband Steven Bernstein. The piece was a semi-finalist for The American Prize in chamber music. She has written numerous arrangements for string quartet and voice, including arrangements on Pictures of America, recorded in Paris by world-renowned singer Natalie Dessay and members of the Paris Mozart Orchestra. Her arrangement of “Little Green” by Joni Mitchell, written for the Turtle Island String Quartet and Tierney Sutton, can be heard on Ms. Sutton’s Grammy-nominated album After Blue. 

Nominated for two Annie awards and 16 Emmys, Julie has won 4 Emmy awards for her work on Histeria! and Animaniacs, she also won the 1996 Network Award for Music Package/Sound Design for her arrangement and orchestration of the Warner Brothers interstitial Crazy Careers. 

Steven Bernstein is a five-time Emmy-winning composer for films and television writing music from horror, comedy, documentary, and cartoons. His music can be heard in the television series Animaniacs (both the original and the reboot), Pinky and the Brain, Baby Looney Tunes, and Make Way for Noddy, to name a few. His motion picture work includes the scores for the grisly horror films Pernicious and Blood Lake, and the award-winning documentary Mr. Fish: Cartooning from the Deep End. Steven has also written extensively for the concert hall. He has had several commissions for large-scale works, both choral and orchestral, and for various chamber ensembles. His oratorio “To Speed Them All” won 2nd place in The American Prize competition. His orchestrations can be heard in such films as Skyfall, The Amazing Spiderman, The Perfect Storm, and many others. 

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