• Robert Russell Bennett (June 15, 1894 – August 18, 1981) was an American composer and arranger, best known for his orchestration of many well-known Broadway...
    26 KB (3,347 words) - 12:00, 15 July 2024
  • Robert or Bob Bennett may refer to: Robert Russell Bennett (1894–1981), American composer Bobby Bennett (The Famous Flames) (1938–2013), member of James...
    2 KB (301 words) - 00:32, 20 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Victory at Sea
    1954. Excerpts from the music soundtrack, by Richard Rodgers and Robert Russell Bennett, were re-recorded for record albums. The original TV broadcasts...
    25 KB (1,366 words) - 21:29, 2 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Show Boat
    All three overtures were arranged by the show's orchestrator, Robert Russell Bennett, who orchestrated most of Kern's later shows.[citation needed] "Cotton...
    101 KB (12,621 words) - 15:06, 17 December 2024
  • Hammerstein), Mielziner did the stage design, Trude Rittmann and Robert Russell Bennett prepared the orchestration, and Elizabeth Montgomery of Motley Theatre...
    117 KB (14,868 words) - 05:25, 5 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Oklahoma! (1955 film)
    were considered for the role of Jud before Rod Steiger was cast. Robert Russell Bennett expanded his Broadway orchestrations, Jay Blackton conducted, and...
    32 KB (3,761 words) - 03:26, 22 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Richard Rodgers
    Hart and Hammerstein was orchestrated by Robert Russell Bennett. Rodgers composed twelve themes, which Bennett used in preparing the orchestra score for...
    45 KB (3,562 words) - 22:46, 1 December 2024
  • The Many Moods of Christmas (category Robert Shaw (conductor) albums)
    by Robert Shaw, grouped into four suites. The carols were arranged for chorus and orchestra by famed Broadway orchestrator Robert Russell Bennett. The...
    4 KB (415 words) - 16:00, 15 January 2023
  • musical with music by Georges Bizet (orchestrated for Broadway by Robert Russell Bennett) and lyrics and book by Oscar Hammerstein II which was performed...
    12 KB (1,023 words) - 18:41, 2 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of compositions by George Gershwin
    been frequently heard in the concert hall, one suite fashioned by Robert Russell Bennett, Porgy and Bess: A Symphonic Picture is relatively popular. Catfish...
    26 KB (3,303 words) - 14:51, 11 August 2024
  • was nominated for an Academy Award, and music credit was given to Robert Russell Bennett, Max Steiner, Heinz Provost and Christian Sinding. It was on a preliminary...
    8 KB (746 words) - 23:53, 21 December 2024
  • Richard Rodney Bennett (1936–2012), English composer Rick Bennett (politician) (born 1963), American politician Robert Russell Bennett (1894–1981), American...
    20 KB (2,369 words) - 20:30, 15 December 2024
  • original 1960 production, directed by Moss Hart with orchestrations by Robert Russell Bennett and Philip J. Lang, ran on Broadway for 873 performances, winning...
    57 KB (5,706 words) - 05:31, 6 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Academy Award for Best Original Score
    1: Gabriel Yared (3) 1: John Addison (2) 1: Luis Bacalov (2) 1: Robert Russell Bennett (2) 1: Hauschka (2) 1: Jay Blackton (2) 1: John Corigliano (2) 1:...
    121 KB (2,897 words) - 03:16, 18 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Empress Elisabeth of Austria
    was written by Ernst and Hubert Marischka, with orchestrations by Robert Russell Bennett. Although the pet name of the empress was always spelled "Sisi"...
    97 KB (11,820 words) - 04:28, 15 December 2024
  • 1964), French singer Robert Russell Bennett (1894–1981), American composer and arranger Robert Blake, (1933–2023), American actor Robert Ghanem (1942–2019)...
    3 KB (349 words) - 15:40, 19 September 2024
  • Ambrosian Chorus and soloists, original 1939 orchestration by Robert Russell Bennett. EMI Records Ltd. 1992 Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen & Mulgrew Miller...
    12 KB (1,423 words) - 05:21, 28 November 2024
  • Suite of Old American Dances (category Compositions by Robert Russell Bennett)
    Suite of Old American Dances is a 1949 concert band work by Robert Russell Bennett. Chappell Music published the condensed score and parts in 1952. This...
    12 KB (1,609 words) - 16:21, 19 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cole Porter
    not orchestrate his musicals. Anything Goes was orchestrated by Robert Russell Bennett and Hans Spialek. Now at the height of his success, Porter was able...
    65 KB (7,367 words) - 19:55, 13 December 2024
  • also enlisted the services of the show's original orchestrator, Robert Russell Bennett, and its original conductor, Victor Baravalle, as the film's musical...
    24 KB (2,841 words) - 05:53, 22 December 2024
  • Seventh Symphony, his early Overture in G minor, two arrangements by Robert Russell Bennett, and Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony No. 1 in April 1968. Command...
    39 KB (4,698 words) - 11:21, 24 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cakewalk
    music was adopted into the works of various composers, including Robert Russell Bennett, John Philip Sousa, Claude Debussy and Louis Moreau Gottschalk....
    31 KB (3,713 words) - 20:31, 4 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Jerome Kern
    musical assistants, principally Frank Saddler (until 1921) and Robert Russell Bennett (from 1923). In response to the commission, Kern oversaw an arrangement...
    58 KB (7,267 words) - 07:51, 18 November 2024
  • Special Academy Award, and a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Robert Russell Bennett† won a competitive Emmy Award, a competitive Oscar, and two Special...
    115 KB (9,399 words) - 03:56, 17 December 2024
  • Symphonic Songs for Band (category Compositions by Robert Russell Bennett)
    Composed in 1957, Symphonic Songs for Band is one of Robert Russell Bennett's most famous compositions for wind band. The work was commissioned for the...
    7 KB (775 words) - 23:46, 25 January 2023
  • Laurence O'Keefe James Stewart Bennett Dogs (1983) Mark Bennett The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1991) Robert Russell Bennett (1894–1981) Great to Be Alive...
    134 KB (13,706 words) - 18:05, 23 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Alto flute
    in the Air (1932) and Very Warm for May (1939), both scored by Robert Russell Bennett (the manuscript orchestrations are in the Jerome Kern Collection...
    17 KB (2,296 words) - 07:44, 20 November 2024
  • Porgy and Bess (1950 album) (category Albums conducted by Robert Russell Bennett)
    (Naxos 8.110287-88) Robert Merrill, baritone Risë Stevens, mezzo-soprano Robert Shaw Chorale RCA Victor Orchestra Robert Russell Bennett, conductor Track...
    2 KB (143 words) - 08:49, 5 October 2024
  • brain tumor that was shortly to kill him, and Shilkret (as well as Robert Russell Bennett) contributed by assisting with orchestration on some of the numbers...
    21 KB (2,594 words) - 05:44, 22 December 2024
  • Karl Gero, Duke of Urach, Lichtenstein noble (b. 1899) August 18 Robert Russell Bennett, American composer and arranger (b. 1894) Anita Loos, American screenwriter...
    39 KB (3,857 words) - 11:44, 6 December 2024