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BIOGRAPHY

Trivers was born in Buffalo, New York , and educated at The Hill School and Hobart College , receiving a Bachelors Degree in music in 1969. While at Hobart, he played bass for the band "Lost and Found", fronted by Eric Bloom , with whom he would later collaborate on songs for Bloom's band Blue Öyster Cult .

Trivers went on to study Film and Television Post-Production at UCLA , He played for Broadway shows such as '' Grease '', during which he met and married fellow musician Elizabeth (Liz) Myers. In the early 1980s, he was also a member of the Vancouver-based band Prism , signed with Capitol Records . He has recorded with other top artists, such as Tina Turner on "Private Dancer", and his music is featured in the song "Total Control" from the " We Are The World " record.

Trivers and his wife relocated to Los Angeles and started a Jingle business, Trivers-Myers Music, which has written well-known themes such as that used on the CBS Evening News . In 2004, they scored an animated commercial for United Airlines which was first broadcast during the Academy Awards and has since been displayed on exhibit at various art museums. The music was an arrangement of George Gershwin 's "Rhapsody in Blue" and was recorded at Capitol Records with 40 members of the Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestra. {Link without Title}


WORKS



with Blue Öyster Cult



  • Fire Of Unknown Origin , 1981

  • --- Sole Survivor (with Eric Bloom and L. Myers)

  • --- After Dark (with Eric Bloom and L. Myers)




with Elizabeth Myers

  • Score for the film ''Birch Street Gym'', directed by Steven Kessler for Chanticleer Films and nominated for an Academy Award in 1993 in the "Short Film" category

  • Theme for the " CBS Evening News With Dan Rather " (with Alan Pasqua)

  • 1998, Score for ''Norma Jean, Jack & Me'', directed by Cyrus Nowrasteh for New Path Pictures

  • 2000, Score for ''Broke Even'', directed by David Feldman , which won the award for Best Drama at the 2000 New York Independent Film festival

  • 2001, Score for the Oliver Stone -produced TV movie ''The Day Reagan Was Shot''



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