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Max Steiner was an Austrian composer of music for theatre productions and films. He later became a naturalized citizen of the United States. Trained... by the great classical music composers Brahms and Mahler, he was one of the first composers who primarily wrote music for motion pictures, and as such is often referred to as "the father of film music". Along with such composers as Franz Waxman, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Alfred Newman and Miklós Rózsa, Steiner played a major part in creating the tradition of writing music for films. Steiner composed hundreds of film scores, including The Informer , Now, Voyager , and Since You Went Away , which won him Academy Awards. He was nominated for the Academy Award a total of twenty-four times. He was also the first recipient of the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score, which he won for his score to Life with Father. Steiner was one of the best-known composers in Hollywood, and is widely regarded today as one of the greatest film score composers in the history of cinema.
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Van Nuys Airport is a public airport located in Van Nuys in the San Fernando Valley section of the city limits of Los Angeles, California, United States. No major commercial airlines fly into this airport; it is used by private, chartered, and small commercial aircraft. It is owned and operated by... Los Angeles World Airports. Van Nuys Airport is currently one of the busiest general aviation airport in the world , and the 25th busiest airport in the world. With just two parallel runways, Van Nuys Airport handled 448,681 aircraft movements in 2005, averaging over 1,200 operations/day; in 2006 it handled 394,915 movements, nearly 1,100 per day. By comparison, Los Angeles International Airport has roughly 1700 operations a day. The airport was the world's busiest general aviation airport through 2005. Hollywood celebrities, politicians, and business executives are known to use this airport because it offers them convenience and anonymity.
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