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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 and Hollywood musicals by other composers such as Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, and Richard Rodgers.
Jun 11, 2024 · Robert Russell Bennett (born June 15, 1894, Kansas City, Mo., U.S.—died Aug. 19, 1981, New York City, N.Y.) was an American composer, conductor, and Broadway orchestrator. He studied music in Berlin, London, and Paris.
May 18, 2018 · Robert Russell Bennett. Robert Russell Bennett (1894-1981) was an arranger, composer, and conductor who orchestrated the scores of more than three hundred Broadway musicals over a period spanning four decades. Bennett was born into a musical family.
Composer, arranger, musician and conductor Robert Russell Bennett studied piano with his mother and other instruments with his bandmaster father, and also with Carl Busch and Nadia Boulanger (honorary DHL, Franklin & Marshall College and Guggenheim fellowships).
Mini Bio. Composer, arranger, musician and conductor Robert Russell Bennett studied piano with his mother and other instruments with his bandmaster father, and also with Carl Busch and Nadia Boulanger (honorary DHL, Franklin & Marshall College and Guggenheim fellowships).
Aug 19, 1981 · Robert Russell Bennett, the American composer and conductor celebrated mostly for the orchestration of such wildly successful Broadway hits as ''Show Boat,'' ''Oklahoma!'' and ''My Fair Lady...
Robert Russell Bennett (1894–1981) is the American composer and arranger best known for inventing the Broadway sound, credited for orchestrating the musicals of such famous composers as Irving Berlin, George Gershwin and Richard Rodgers. His violin concerto, a rarely heard work from 1941, shows its roots in film and stage with expressive drama.
