Earl Rose (composer)

Earl Alexander Rose (born September 5, 1946) is an American composer, pianist, arranger, and conductor. In addition to writing film and television music, he has also composed several well-known Pop and R&B songs. His film scores include Alan Pakula:Going For Truth, Always at the Carlyle, Johnny Carson: King of Late Night, a PBS American Masters presentation, and the Peabody Winning documentary, Inventing L.A.: The Chandlers and Their Times. Early life Earl Rose was born in New York City and began taking music and began his music and piano instruction at the age of seven years old. He attended and, having studied with Frances Dillon and Edith Oppens, graduated with a major in piano from Mannes College of Music of Music in 1970. During his second year of college, he studied at the Vienna Academy of Music. He also conducted at the Juilliard School. Life and career Rose began his composing and conducting career in the late sixties, while still in college, as Assistant Music Conductor for NBC’s The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson, when the show was based in New York. One of his first television composing credits, beginning in 1976, was co-writing songs with lyricist Judy Spencer for