The Broadway sound : the autobiography and selected essays of Robert Russell Bennett
Robert Russell Bennett (Author), George Joseph Ferencz (Editor)
"The remarkable career of composer-orchestrator Robert Russell Bennett (1894-1981) encompassed a wide variety of both "legitimate" and popular music-making on Broadway, in Hollywood, 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. Among the more than 3OO musicals on which he worked between 1920 and 1975 are Oklahoma!, My Fair Lady, Show Boat, South Pacific, and The Sound of Music."--BOOK JACKET. ""The Broadway Sound" is the first publication of Bennett's autobiography, which was written in the late 1970s. It also includes eight of his most important essays on the art of orchestration."--Jacket
Print Book, English, 1999
University of Rochester Press, Rochester, NY, 1999
Eastman studies in music, v. 12, [12]
essays
xvii, 356 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9781580460224, 9781580460828, 1580460224, 1580460828
41231521
The Bennett Family TreeGrowing Up in FreemanTo New York, 1916To Paris, 1926Rodgers and Hart in LondonTo Hollywood, 1930Hollywood Beckons AgainRussell Bennett's Notebooks and Other Adventures in Network RadioVictory at SeaThe Sound of MusicRemembrances"The Bohemians"Eight Selected Essays by Robert Russell Bennett