Title Details
375 Pages
22.8 x 15.2 cm
20 b/w illus.
Series: Eastman Studies in Music
Series Vol. Number:
12
Imprint: University of Rochester Press
The Broadway Sound
The Autobiography and Selected Essays of Robert Russell Bennett
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The previously unpublished autobiography and additional essays by the orchestrator-composer of some of America's most important musical theatre productions.
The remarkable career of composer-orchestrator Robert Russell Bennett [1894-1981] encompassed a wide variety of both "legitimate" and popular music-making in Hollywood, on Broadway, and for television. Bennett is principally responsible for what is known worldwide as the "Broadway sound" and for greatly elevating the status of the theater orchestrator. He worked alongside Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, George Gershwin, Irving Berlin, Richard Rodgers, and Frederick Loewe on much of the Broadway canon, eventually providing orchestrations for all or part of more than 300 musicals between 1920 and 1975. This work is the first publication of Bennett's autobiography, which was written in thelate 1970s. It also includes eight of his most important essays on the art of orchestration. George J. Ferencz is Professor of Music at the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater.
The remarkable career of composer-orchestrator Robert Russell Bennett [1894-1981] encompassed a wide variety of both "legitimate" and popular music-making in Hollywood, on Broadway, and for television. Bennett is principally responsible for what is known worldwide as the "Broadway sound" and for greatly elevating the status of the theater orchestrator. He worked alongside Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, George Gershwin, Irving Berlin, Richard Rodgers, and Frederick Loewe on much of the Broadway canon, eventually providing orchestrations for all or part of more than 300 musicals between 1920 and 1975. This work is the first publication of Bennett's autobiography, which was written in thelate 1970s. It also includes eight of his most important essays on the art of orchestration. George J. Ferencz is Professor of Music at the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater.
The Bennett Family Tree
Growing Up in Freeman
To New York, 1916
To Paris, 1926
Rodgers and Hart in London
To Hollywood, 1930
Hollywood Beckons Again
Russell Bennett's Notebooks and Other Adventures in Network Radio
Victory at Sea
The Sound of Music
Remembrances
"The Bohemians"
Eight Selected Essays by Robert Russell Bennett
Growing Up in Freeman
To New York, 1916
To Paris, 1926
Rodgers and Hart in London
To Hollywood, 1930
Hollywood Beckons Again
Russell Bennett's Notebooks and Other Adventures in Network Radio
Victory at Sea
The Sound of Music
Remembrances
"The Bohemians"
Eight Selected Essays by Robert Russell Bennett
Paperback
9781580460828
December 2001
£32.99 / $39.95
Title Details
375 Pages
2.28 x 1.52 cm
20 b/w illus.
Series: Eastman Studies in Music
Series Vol. Number:
12
Imprint: University of Rochester Press
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