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133: 36: 287:, where he took the title of music director, a new position unique to the studio system. As music director, he was the chief executive responsible for providing musical production support to every film the studio released. This meant matching up composers, orchestrators, conductors, musicians and recording facilities to meet the creative scope of each project as well as its schedule and budget. 290:
Stoloff often took partial credit for a picture's score when he worked closely with a particular composer to work out a theme, motifs, and melodies. As a result, he ranks among some of the most-nominated individuals in the history of the
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albums became a hot commodity. Stoloff exercised his privilege as musical director to record these soundtrack albums himself, working with material from the actual scores.
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were perfected, the studios saw the opportunity to market more than just singles to the listening audience, and
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in the early 1960s, he hired Stoloff as musical director; the two having worked successfully before on
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By the late 1940s, film music was beginning to be recognized on its own, and Stoloff began
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to provide it, and Stoloff was one of the first to cross over from
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as a featured soloist at the age of 16, and joined the
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