Oscar winning composer Bernstein dies

Elmer Bernstein, the versatile, Oscar-winning composer who scored such movie classics as The Ten Commandments, The Magnificent Seven, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Great Escape and True Grit, died yesterday. He was 82.

Bernstein died in his sleep at his home in Ojai, near Los Angeles, said his publicist, Cathy Mouton. She said Bernstein had been in failing health for some time.