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The Broadway Sound: The Autobiography and Selected Essays of Robert Russell Bennett

The Broadway Sound: The Autobiography and Selected Essays of Robert Russell Bennett

Bennett, Estate Of Robert Russell
Ferencz, George J.
Ferencz, George J.

Paperback

Series: Eastman Studies in Music, Book 12

MusiciansBroadway & MusicalsGeneral Music

ISBN10: 1580460828
ISBN13: 9781580460828
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Published: Dec 3 2001
Pages: 376
Weight: 1.11
Height: 0.79 Width: 6.12 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
The previously unpublished autobiography and additional essays by the orchestrator-composer of some of America's most important musical theatre productions.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.

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