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Robert June Ward, Sr. (October 15, 1938 – December 25, 2008) was an American blues and soul guitarist. He was known for founding the Ohio Untouchables, the band that later would become the Ohio Players. He played the guitar with a unique tone soaked in vibrato coming from a Magnatone amplifier.
Robert Eugene Ward (September 13, 1917 – April 3, 2013) was an American composer who is best remembered for his opera The Crucible (1961) after the 1953 play of the same name by Arthur Miller. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Music for that opera in 1962.
Apr 7, 2013 · Robert Ward, an American composer whose best-known work, an operatic setting of Arthur Miller’s drama “The Crucible,” won the 1962 Pulitzer Prize for music, died on Wednesday at his home in...
Apr 3, 2013 · Robert Ward, the American composer who won the Pulitzer Prize for bringing Arthur Miller's play The Crucible to the opera stage, died early Wednesday of natural causes.
- Mark Mobley
Jan 1, 2009 · Pulitzer Prize winner. Born September 13, 1917, Cleveland, Ohio. About Robert Ward. A student of Howard Hanson, Ward's best-known work is his Pullitzer-prize winning opera, The Crucible. Operas. He Who Gets Slapped, opera in three acts. Libretto by Bernard Stambler after Andreyev. 1955. [revised 1973; original title Pantaloon]
May 16, 2013 · Toward the end of his life, NEA Opera Honoree Robert Ward discussed his remarkable career in music.
Dec 30, 2008 · Robert Ward, who is most familiar for the immediately recognizable tremolo-soaked guitar playing behind Wilson Pickett and the Falcons ’ recording of “I Found A Love,” died at 70 on Christmas Day in his home near Macon, Georgia. Ward had his first success in Ohio with the Untouchables.
