Arthur Benjamin Rubinstein (March 31, 1938 – April 23, 2018) was an American Emmy Award-winning

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. He composed several television series soundtracks and songs for film scores. He was frequently hired by

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John Badham John MacDonald Badham (born August 25, 1939) is an American film and television director, best known for directing the films ''Saturday Night Fever'' (1977), ''Dracula (1979 film), Dracula'' (1979), ''Blue Thunder'' (1983), ''WarGames'' (1983), ...

, and the majority of his movie soundtracks are found in Badham's work, including '' Whose Life Is It Anyway?'' (1981), '' WarGames'' (1983), '' Blue Thunder'' (1983), '' Scarecrow and Mrs. King'' (1986), '' Stakeout'' (1987), '' The Hard Way'' (1991), '' Another Stakeout'' (1993), and '' Nick of Time'' (1995). He was also member of the band The Beepers. In 1983 Rubinstein created the score to '' Blue Thunder'' (which he composed, conducted and produced) using various synthesizers, a popular instrument of the 80's era. In the score Rubinstein used these synthesizers in a symphonic manner by combining them with brass, percussion and string ensembles. Using the

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II (a digital computer instrument) and dubbing this with both the Jupiter, the Prophet and the Moog analog synthesizers. Rubinstein also created a very unusual sound by placing a microphone inside a large empty water bottle and placing it underneath a Steinway grand piano. His other film and TV movie scores include The House Without a Christmas Tree (1972), '' The Great Bank Hoax'' (1978), '' The Great American Traffic Jam'' (1980), '' On the Right Track'' (1981), '' The Phoenix'' (1982), '' Deal of the Century'' (1983), '' The Cartier Affair'' (1984), '' It Came Upon the Midnight Clear'' (1984), '' Lost in America'' (1985), '' Murder in Space'' (1985), '' The Best of Times'' (1986), '' Hyper Sapien: People from Another Star'' (1986), '' Love Among Thieves'' (1987), '' Conspiracy: The Trial of the Chicago 8'' (1987), '' Once Upon a Texas Train'' (1988), '' Inherit the Wind'' (1988), several Season Two episodes of ''

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'' and '' Dead Man's Island'' (1996). He died on April 23, 2018, from cancer at the age of 80.‘WarGames’ Composer Arthur B. Rubinstein Dies at 80
/ref> He was among those honored at the 2019 Grammy awards.

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