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Bennett, Robert Russell
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Biography noting his abilities as orchestrator, arranger, composer, and conductor from the Grove Concise Dictionary of Music entry at WQXR radio.
http://www.wqxr.com/cgi-bin/iowa...a/learning/grove.html?record=942
Brief biography and musicography from the MusicWeb Encylopaedia of Popular Music, edited by Donald Clarke.
http://www.musicweb.uk.net/encyclopaedia/b/B88.HTM
Operatic catalogue with title, premiere, information and librettist.
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Robert Russell Bennett Operas Opera's Librettos Robert Russell Bennett (1894-1981 Bennett |Composers Mp3 Home Page] The Operas of Robert Russell Bennett Operas: Title (date and place of first performance and libretto) Maria Malibran Opera...Biographical information, trivia, list of film music he orchestrated, arranged, or composed, awards and honors, and related links from the Internet Movie Database (IMDb).
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Robert Russell Bennett V orchestrator uncredited aka Rodgers Hammerstein's Cinderella (USA: complete title) South Pacific (1958 orchestrator) Cinderella (1957 TV orchestrator) The King and I (1956 orchestrator aka Rodgers and Hammerstein's The King...Biographical sketch, photograph, and brief examination of his orchestrations and his own compositions with Naxos discography.
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Composer Jean was born the following year. Bennett did his first theater orchestrations in 1920 and quickly rose to pre-eminence in his field, sometimes working on more than twenty shows a...Karadar Dictionary entry with life, related composers, and comments on his work.
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- Classical Music Dictionary Free MP3 Bennett would be a major classical composer, and among his mentors was Nadia Boulanger in Paris. However, on his return to the States he could only find employment playing in...