EATM Honors Elmer Bernstein with Lifetime Achievement Award
Academy Award-winning composer Elmer Bernstein and Fleetwood Mac Founder and drummer Mick Fleetwood were honored for lifetime achievement at this year’s Emerging Artists and Technology in Music (EATM) conference. On hand for panels and discussions at the conference that ran May 29–31 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, were Ark 21 Records CEO Miles Copeland, EMI Recorded Music senior vp Jay Samit, composer James Newton Howard, Universal Music Group/Universal Pictures president of film music Kathy Nelson and music executive Lou Mann. Bernstein was surprised and delighted when a birthday cake was wheeled out in his honor and a rousing chorus of Happy Birthday greeted him.