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Broadway Sound" : The Autobiography and Selected Essays of Robert Russell Bennett Eastman Studies in Music, 1071-9989 Bennett, Robert Russell.; Ferencz, George Joseph. University of Rochester 1580460224 9781580460224 9780585302195 English Bennett, Robert Russell,--1894- , Bennett, Robert Russell,--1894- , Composers--Biography.--United States 1999 ML410.B4498.A3 1999eb 780/.92 Bennett, Robert Russell,--1894- , Bennett, Robert Russell,--1894- , Composers--Biography.--United States
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Drawing by Irma Selz; © 1951 The New Yorker Magazine, Inc. Used by permission.
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Carousel Waltzes (c. 1949) The King and I ("Selections," 1951) Me and Juliet ("Selections," 1953) Victory at Sea ("Symphonic Scenario," 1953) Silk Stockings ("Selections," 1955) My Fair Lady ("Selections," c. 1957) Gigi ("Selections," 1958) The Sound of Music ("Selections," c. 1960) H.M.S. Pinafore (Arthur Sullivan) ("Selections," 1961) Do I Hear a Waltz? (c. 1965) Funny Girl ("Selections," 1968) Gershwin: A Medley (SATB chorus and band, 1972) Picasso Suite (Michel Legrand) (1973) Cole Porter: A Medley for Concert Band (1973) Noel Coward: A Medley for Concert Band (1974)
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APPENDIX C SELECTED STAGE AND FILM CREDITS Bennett did some or all of the orchestrations for each of the following productions, listed chronologically by composer. Additional details, including names of the collaborating orchestrators on each production, may be found in the editor's Robert Russell Bennett: A Bio-Bibliography. Harold Arlen Bloomer Girl (1944). Irving Berlin Face the Music (1932), Louisiana Purchase (1940), Annie Get Your Gun (1946, and 1966 revival). Vernon Duke Walk a Little Faster (1932), Ziegfeld Follies of 1936, The Show is On (1936, music by Duke, et al.), Jackpot (1944).1 George Gershwin George White's Scandals (1924 and 1925 editions), Lady, Be Good! (1924), Tell Me More (1925), Song of the Flame (1925, music by Gershwin and
1When asked "What was your toughest orchestral assignment?," Bennett replied, "I could name a few composers who were awfully hard to arrange beautifully for. Vernon Dukewhom I lovedhis music was always hard to put on paper. He was a modern composer . . . who I thought had a fine talent and a great future. . . . Whenever I had to orchestrate his music for popular consumption, what it really needed was four trumpets and plenty of strings; you were always having to interlace different [timbres], which you do in musical shows all the time. You never had a chance to sit down and say 'one lovely chord of four flutes would be just ideal'you don't have four flutes. So you have two flutes and two clarinets; that's not a very good substitute, but it's the best you can do. . . . Duke, I found, was more of a problem like that than any other thing I ever did, [putting] more things into chords than you can possibly get out of a theater orchestra." [Bennett interview with George J. Guilbaut for WGBH radio, Boston, 1 October 1977.)
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H. Stothart), Funny Face (1927), Girl Crazy (1930), Of Thee I Sing (1931), Pardon My English (1933). Films: A Damsel in Distress (1937), Shall We Dance (1937). Jerome Kern Hitchy-Koo of 1920, Daffy Dill (1922), Sitting Pretty (1924), Dear Sir (1924), Sunny (1925), The City Chap (1925), Criss Cross (1926), Lucky (1927), Show Boat (1927, also 1946 and 1966 revivals), Blue Eyes (London, 1928), Sweet Adeline (1929), The Cat and the Fiddle (1931), Music in the Air (1932, and 1951 revival), Roberta (1933), Three Sisters (London, 1934), Gentleman Unafraid (St. Louis, 1938), Very Warm for May (1939), Sally (1948 revival of the 1920 musical). Films: Men of the Sky (1931), I Dream Too Much (1935), Show Boat (1936), Swing Time (1936), High, Wide and Handsome (1937). Burton Lane Finian's Rainbow (1947), On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (1965). Fritz Loewe My Fair Lady (1956), Camelot (1960). Cole Porter Fifty Million Frenchmen (1929), Gay Divorce (1932), Anything Goes (1934), Jubilee (1935), Red, Hot and Blue! (1936), Dubarry Was a Lady (1939), Panama Hattie (1940), Something for the Boys (1943), Mexican Hayride (1944), Seven Lively Arts (1944, music by Porter, Stravinsky, et al.), Around the World in Eighty Days (1946), Kiss Me, Kate (1948), Out of This World (1950), Alladin (1958 television production). Richard Rodgers One Dam Thing After Another (London, 1927), A Connecticut Yankee (1927), She's My Baby (1928), Heads Up (1929), Ever Green (London, 1930), America's Sweetheart (1931), Jumbo (1935), Oklahoma! (1943), Allegro (1947), South Pacific (1949), The King and I (1951), Pipe Dream (1955), Cinderella (1957 television production and its stage adaptation), Flower Drum Song (1958), The Sound of Music (1959), Androcles and the Lion (1967 television production). Films: Victory at Sea (1954), Oklahoma! (1955).
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Arthur Schwartz The Band Wagon (1931), Flying Colors (1932), Revenge with Music (1934), At Home Abroad (1935), Inside U.S.A. (1948), A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1951), By the Beautiful Sea (1954), Jennie (1963). Kurt Weill Film: Lady in the Dark (1944).2 Vincent Youmans Wildflower (1923, music by Youmans and H. Stothart), Mary Jane McKane (1923, Youmans/Stothart), Lollipop (1925), No, No, Nanette (1925).
2Following the composer's death, Bennett was asked to orchestrate selections from the never-finished Weill-Maxwell Anderson musical Huckleberry Finn. The resulting Five Songs from "Huckleberry Finn" were first performed in New York in 1952.
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APPENDIX D SELECTED DISCOGRAPHY Except as noted, all pre-1980 items are 33 rpm LPs; those post-1980 are compact discs (new releases or reissues). Not included below are original-cast recordings of Bennett-orchestrated musicals; these are catalogued in several exhaustive reference works, including Jack Raymond's Show Music on Record from the 1890s to the 1980s (New York: Ungar, 1982). Archival recordings of Bennett's work are listed in the editor's Robert Russell Bennett: A BioBibliography.
Concert Works Abraham Lincoln: A Likeness in Symphony Form Moscow Symphony Orchestra, William Stromberg cond., Naxos 8.559004 (1999) A Commemoration Symphony: Stephen Collins Foster Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh, William Steinberg cond., Everest LPBR 6063, SDBR 3063 (1960); Everest EVC 9027 (1996) Concerto for Violin in A Major Louis Kaufman, violin, London Symphony Orchestra, Bernard Herrmann cond. (rec. 1956), Citadel CT-6005 (1976); Musical Heritage Society MHS 3974 (1978); Bay Cities 1008 (1989) Concerto Grosso for Woodwind Quintet and Wind Orchestra American Wind Symphony, Robert Austin Boudreau cond., AWS-109 (C. 1985) The Fun and Faith of William Billings, American National Symphony Orchestra, U. of Maryland Chorus, Antal Dorati cond., London OS 26442 (1976)
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Hexapoda (violin and piano) Louis Kaufman and Bennett, Columbia 70727D (12" 78 rpm, 1941); Orion OC800 (cassette, c. 1980); Bay Cities BCD 1019 (1990) Jascha Heifetz and Milton Kaye, Decca DA-23659 (78 rpm, 1945); MCA MCAD 42212 (1988) Louis and Annette Kaufman, Citadel CT 6005 (1976), Musical Heritage Society MHS 3974 (1978) Rondo Capriccioso (flute quartet) Members of the New York Flute Club, Musical Heritage Society MHS 3578 (1977) Rose Variations (trumpet and piano) David Hickman and Pauline Soderholm, Crystal S-363 (1978); Crystal CD-668 (c. 1990) Sonata in G (organ) David Britton, Delos DE 3111 (1991) Second Sonatina (piano) Milton Kaye Golden Crest CRDG 4195 (1975) Sights and Sounds Moscow Symphony Orchestra, William Stromberg cond., Naxos 8.559004 (1999) A Song Sonata (violin and piano) Jascha Heifetz and Brooks Smith, RCA LM-2382 (1960) [mvts. 2-3-4 only] Louis Kaufman and Theodore Saidenberg, Concert Hall CHS-1062 (1951) Louis and Annette Kaufman, Citadel CT 6004 (1976); Musical Heritage Society MHS 3974 (1978); Cambria 1078 (1996) Roy Malan and Robin Sutherland, Orion ORS 82439 (1982) Suite for Flute and B-flat Clarinet Glennda Dove, flute, Paul Drusler or Larry Combs, clarinet, Mark MES-57590 (1980s) Suite of Old American Dances Eastman Wind Ensemble, Frederick Fennell cond., Mercury LPs 40006 (1953), MG50079 (1957), SRI 75086 (1977) Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music Wind Symphony, Eugene Corporon cond., Klavier KCD 11060 (1994)
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Symphonic Songs for Band Eastman Wind Ensemble, Frederick Fennell cond., Mercury MG 50220, SR90220 (1960); Mercury 432 009-2 (1990) Northwestern U. Wind Ensemble, John Paynter, cond., New World NW211 (1977), NW80211-2 (1990s) Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra, Frederick Fennell cond., Kosei KOCD 3562 (1988) A Symphonic Story of Jerome Kern Pittsburgh Symphony, William Steinberg cond., Everest LPBR 6063, SDBR 3063 (1960); Everest EVC 9027 (1996) Victory at Sea music (selections and concert medleys) NBC Symphony Orchestra, Bennett cond., RCA Red Seal 6660-2-RC (1987; reissue of late-1950s LPs) Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, Eric Kunzel cond., Telarc 80175 (1990s)
Original Works and Arrangements for Long-Playing Records An Adventure in High Fidelity RCA Symphony Orchestra, Bennett cond., RCA LM 1802 (1954) RCA commissioned Bennett to compose this "demonstration disc" of fanciful music for large studio orchestra. Among its nine selections are "The Circular Serenade of the Diamond Stylus" and "Waltz of the Vinylite Biscuits." "America The Beautiful" Robert Shaw Chorale, RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra, RCA LSC2662 (1964) Armed Forces Suite (1960) RCA Symphony Orchestra, Symphony Band, and "Combo," Bennett cond., RCA LM 2445, LSC 2445, 1960 "Christmas Carols" Marian Anderson, contralto; Franz Rupp, piano, chorus and orchestra, Bennett cond, RCA LM-2613 (1962) The Many Moods of Christmas Robert Shaw Chorale, RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra, RCA LM-2684 (1963) Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Robert Shaw cond., Telarc 80087 (1983) "The Robert Shaw Chorale and Orchestra on Broadway," RCA LM/LSC2799 (1965)
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"Songs at Eventide" Marian Anderson, contralto; Franz Rupp, harpsichord, chamber ensemble, Bennett cond., RCA LM/LSC2769 (1964) "Songs of Faith and Inspiration" Robert Shaw Chorale, RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra, arr. Bennett, RCA LSC 2760 (1964) "Yours Is My Heart AloneOperetta Favorites" Robert Shaw Chorale, RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra, RCA VCM/ VCS-7023 (1963)
Broadway "Symphonic Picture" Medleys "Gershwin in Hollywood" Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, Gregory Hines and Patti Austin, vocals, John Mauceri cond., Philips 434274-2 (1990s) The only commercial recording of the title-track Gershwin medley; also contains instrumental and vocal musicin their original orchestrationsfrom Gershwin's 1930s film musicals. "Gershwin Overtures" New Princess Theater Orchestra, McGlinn, cond., EMI D 170391 (1987) Music from Gershwin's Girl Crazy, Of Thee I Sing, Tip-Toes, Primrose, and Oh, Kay!along with the film A Damsel in Distressmost of it orchestrated by Bennett. A Symphonic Picture of "Porgy and Bess" Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner cond., Columbia MM-572 (original 78 rpm release, 1940s) The work has received dozens of commercial recordings. Bennett's own late-1950s reading, with the RCA Symphony Orchestra, has been reissued on RCA 09026-68334-2 [CD]. "Jerome Kern Treasury" London Sinfonietta and Chorus, McGlinn cond., Angel 7-54883-2 (1993) Eighteen of Kerns show and film songs, spanning the years 19121940. Nearly all of the orchestrations are the "originals" by Bennett or Frank Saddler. Soloists include Thomas Hampson and Rebecca Luker. "Lerner & Loewe Songbook for Orchestra" Cincinnati Pops, Kunzel cond., Telarc 80375 (1994) Includes Bennett's medleys of music from Brigadoon, My Fair Lady, Gigi (the 1958 film, reworked for Broadway in 1973), and Camelot.
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My Fair Lady (concert band medley; Loewe) Ohlone College Wind Orchestra, Philip Zahorsky cond., Ohlone CDOC-5015-2 (1994) ''Rodgers & Hammerstein: Opening Night" Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, Mauceri cond., Philips 434-932-2 (1992) Overtures from all of the Rogers & Hammerstein original productions, their 1945 film State Fair, and the 1965 remake of television's 1957 Cinderella. Bennett's work is heard on seven of the eleven tracks. "Rodgers & Hammerstein Songbook for Orchestra" Cincinnati Pops, Kunzel cond., Telarc 80278 (1992) Includes Bennett's "symphonic picture" medleys from Oklahoma!, South Pacific, The King and I, Flower Drum Song, and The Sound of Music, along with his scoring of Rodgers's Cinderella Waltz.
Musical Theater "Restorations" Anything Goes (Porter) London Sinfonietta, Ambrosian Chorus, McGlinn cond., EMI7 49848 2 (1989) Original orchestrations by Bennett and Hans Spialek, with missing items rescored by Russell Warner. Girl Crazy (Gershwin) Elektra Nonesuch 79250-2 (CD, 1990) Conducted by John Mauceri, this is one of the "Roxbury Recordings" restorations funded by Ira Gershwin's widow, Lenore. All of the surviving Bennett-orchestrated material is heard, along with some songs sympathetically scored by Larry Moore and Russell Warner. Kiss Me, Kate (Porter) London Sinfonietta, Ambrosian Chorus, McGlinn cond., EMI D 230278 (2 CDs, 1990) Though the original cast recording (1949) has been reissued on compact disc, this is a complete recording of the score, including dance music and some songs dropped from the production early in its run. Lady, Be Good! (Gershwin) Elektra Nonesuch 79308-2 (1992) Conducted by Eric Stern. The few original orchestrations (by Bennett, Daly, Charles Grant, Stephen O. Jones, Paul Lannin, and Max Steiner) that survive are included; the rest have been faithfully recreated by Larry Wilcox and Russell Warner.
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Louisiana Purchase (Berlin) Rob Fisher, cond., DRG 94766 (1996) This is a studio recording of the "Carnegie Hall-Weill Recital Hall" concert presentation of the full score, its first hearing since the original 1940 production. The 1940 orchestrations (Bennett's, with a few by Nathan Lang Van Cleave) belie the notion that Bennett was too stiff or conservative an arranger to turn out propulsive, swinging charts like these. Of Thee I Sing and Let 'Em Eat Cake (Gershwin) CBS M2K 42522 (2 CDs, 1987) Orchestra of St. Luke's, New York Choral Artists, conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas, featuring singers Maureen McGovern, Larry Kert, and Jack Gilford. Of Thee I Sing uses the original Bennett/Daly/Gershwin orchestrations. Russell Warner reconstructed the lost arrangements from Let 'Em Eat Cake. Pardon My English (Gershwin) Elektra Nonesuch 79338-2 (1994) Another "Roxbury Records" restoration, conducted by Eric Stern. The original orchestrations by Bennett, William Daly, and Adolph Deutsch are heard, with some recent scoring for the project by Russell Warner. Show Boat (Kern) London Sinfonietta, Ambrosian Chorus, McGlinn cond., EMI/Angel CDS 7-49108-2 (1988). An exhaustive restoration of the 1927 version of the show, nearly all of it using Bennett's original orchestrations.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY Anderson, George. "Robert Russell Bennett: Music Man." Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 27 May 1974. Behrman, S.N. "Profiles: Accoucheur." The New Yorker, 6 February 1932, 2024. Bennett, Robert Russell. "All I Know about Arranging Music." International Musician, February 1949, 9, 33. Bennett, Robert Russell. "Another Chapter on Arranging Music." International Musician, March 1949, 16, 33. Bennett, Robert Russell. "Another Chapter on Arranging Music." International Musician, April 1949, 49. Bennett, Robert Russell. "Backstage with the Orchestrator." Etude 61, no. 4 (April 1943), 233, 273, 288. Bennett, Robert Russell. "Eight Bars and a Pencil." New York Times, 8 June 1947. Bennett, Robert Russell. "Fools Give You Reasons." Music Journal 25, no. 5 (May 1967), 44, 88. Bennett, Robert Russell. "From the Notes of a Music Arranger." Theater Arts, November 1956, 8889. Bennett, Robert Russell. Instrumentally Speaking. Melville, N.Y.: Belwin Mills, Inc., 1975. Bennett, Robert Russell. "A Master Arranger Speaks." The Musical Digest, OctoberNovember 1948, 5, 20. Bennett, Robert Russell. "On Writing Harp Music." Harp News 1, no. 10 (Fall 1954), 23. Bennett, Robert Russell. "Orchestrating for Broadway." Modern Music 9, no. 4 (MayJune 1932), 148152. Bennett, Robert Russell. "Orchestration of Theatre and Dance Music." In Music Lovers' Encyclopedia, compiled by Rupert Hughes, rev. and ed. by Deems Taylor and Russell Kerr. Garden City, N.Y.: Garden City Books, 1950. Bennett, Robert Russell. "A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody." Music Publishers Journal 2, no. 5 (September October 1944), 15, 3031. Bergreen, Lawrence. As Thousands Cheer. New York: Viking, 1990. Blitzstein, Mark. "New York Chronicle of New Music," Modern Music 8 (1931), 3942.
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Bordman, Gerald. Jerome Kern: His Life and Music. New York: Oxford University Press, 1980. "The Boys That Make the Noise." Time, 5 July 1943, 65. Chapman, John. "Mainly about Manhattan." New York Daily News, 17 May 1937. Collinson, Francis M. Orchestration for the Theatre. London: John Lane,The Bodley Head, 1941. Donald B. Hyatt Papers. State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison. Ewen, David. American Composers Today. New York: H.W. Wilson Co., 1949. Ferencz, George J. Robert Russell Bennett: A Bio-Bibliography. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1990. Ferriss, John. "Mr. Music and His Pal," New York Sunday News, 29 December 1968. Gelatt, Roland. "Music Makers: Bruckner and a Loewe-Bennett Fair Lady from Pittsburgh." High Fidelity, July 1968, 20, 22. Greenbaum, Lucy. "About an Arranger." New York Times, 24 October 1943. Hawkins, Roy Benton. "The Life and Work of Robert Russell Bennett." Ph.D. diss., Texas Tech University, 1989. Krueger, Miles. Show Boat: The Story of a Classic American Musical. New York: Oxford University Press, 1977. Levant, Oscar. Memoirs of an Amnesiac. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1965. Levant, Oscar. A Smattering of Ignorance. Garden City, N.Y.: Garden City Publishing Co., Inc. 1940. Lowe, Donald Robert. "Sir Carl Busch: His Life and Work as a Teacher, Conductor and Composer." D.M.A. diss., University of Missouri-Kansas City, 1972. "Man behind the Tune." Newsweek, 20 July 1953, 86. McCarty, Clifford. Film Composers in America: A Checklist of Their Work. Glendale, Cal.: Valentine, 1953. Reprint, New York: Da Capo, 1972. Mordden, Ethan. Rodgers & Hammerstein. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1992. Morley, Sheridan, with Graham Payn. The Noel Coward Diaries. New York: Little, Brown and Co., 1982. Morton, Lawrence. "On the Hollywood Front." Modern Music 21 (1944), 264266. NBC Television Papers. State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison. Nixon, Richard M. RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1978. Rodgers, Richard. Musical Stages: An Autobiography. New York: Random House, 1975. Sheehan, Vincent. Oscar Hammerstein I: The Life and Exploits of an Impresario. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1956. Simon, Robert A. "Musical Events: About a Lorelei and Mr. BennettChamber Music," The New Yorker, 19 May 1929, 9496. Spialek,. Hans. "A Passing Note." Unpublished memoirs, c. 1956. Alice Gruber, Andover, N.J. S.S.S. "The Musical Traveler." International Musician, March 1948, 24.
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Tunick, Jonathan. "Broadway in the Concert Hall: By Special Arrangement Only." Symphony, FebruaryMarch 1987, 6. Waters, Edward N. Victor Herbert: A Life in Music. New York: Macmillan, 1955. Wilk, Max. OK! The Story of "Oklahoma!" New York: Grove Press, 1993. Wilk, Max. They're Playing Our Song. New York: Atheneum, 1973. Wind, Herbert Warren. "Profiles: Another Opening, Another Show." The New Yorker, 17 November 1951, 4671.
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INDEX A Aarons, Alex, 113-15 Academy Awards ("Oscars"), 144, 154, 160n, 220, 232, 273 "Alexander's Ragtime Band," 242 "All the Things You Are," 257 Allegro, 197-98 "Always," 242 American Federation of Musicians (AFM), 43, 70, 80, 214n An American in Paris, 115n American Society of Music Arrangers (ASMA), 165 American Wind Symphony (American Waterways Wind Orchestra), xii, 221, 267 Anderson, John Murray, 68-69 Anderson, Marian, 206-7 Andrews, Julie, 74, 229, 237n Annabel Takes a Tour, 160n Annie Get Your Gun, 197-98; revival (1966), 239 "Another Op'nin, Another Show," 200n Antheil, George, 124 Antoine, Josephine, 146n Anything Goes, 148n, 249n, 274 (See also songs from Anything Goes: "I Get a Kick Out of You," "You're the Top") Arlen, Harold, 142n Arnaud, Leo, 165 Around the World in 80 Days, 179n Arrangers (orchestrators). See Barnhart, Ralph; Bennett, Robert Russell; Coughlin, Bruce; Courage, Alexander; Daly, William; De Packh, Maurice; Deutsch, Adolph; Ferencz, George; Grofé, Ferde; Jones, Stephen O.; Lang, Philip J.; Langey, Otto; Noeltner, Robert; Paul, Walter; Pomahac, Bruce; Powell, Edward; Raksin, David; Royal, Ted; Saddler, Frank; Scharf, Walter; Spialek, Hans; Tunick, Jonathan; Walker, Don; Warner, Russell; Wilcox, Larry
Arvey, Verna (Mrs. William Grant Still), 138n ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers), 46, 226; Bennett's nomination, 124 As Thousands Cheer, 192n Astaire, Adele, 128 Astaire, Fred, 37n, 128, 159, 163, 169 "At the Automat" ("Automat Opening"), 141 Avery, Milton, 175 B Bach, Johann Sebastian, 10, 29, 121 Baker, Edythe, 55 Ball at the Savoy, 64n "The Bambalina," 75, 246 Bambrick, Winifred, 47 The Band Wagon, 128 Bands. See Brass bands; Goldman Band; N.Y. World's Fair; Sousa, John Philip; Tri-State Band Festival Baravelle, Victor, 103, 119, 145, 151, 162, 168-69 Barber, "Red" (Walter Lanier), 179 Barber, Samuel, 177n Barbour, Inez (Mrs. Henry Hadley), 149-50
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Barlow, Howard, 164 Barnhart, Ralph, 180-81 Barrère, Georges, 42, 43 Barrymore, Ethel, 63 Barrymore, John, 46, 63-64 Barrymore, Lionel, 46, 63 Baxter, Harry, 119 Beethoven, Ludwig van, 30n, 124, 137, 260 "Begin the Beguine," 148, 248, 250 Behrman, S.N., 65 Belasco, David, 44 Bells Are Ringing, 229, 320 Bennett, Beatrice Jean (daughter), 165; birth, 63; in Paris, 88-89 Bennett family, 14, 19-31 passim, 47, 62, 135, 207 Bennett, Louise (wife), 135, 165, 204, 265; conversations with Boulanger, 85; courtship and marriage, 50, 55, 58, 62; in Los Angeles, 165 Bennett, Robert Russell: Army service (WWI), 50-57; arrangements of theater music, first, 59; arranging, recommendations for successful, 64; on artistic compromises, 121, 137; and astrologers, 80-82, 96; awards received, 220, 231-32, 261-62, 273. See also Academy Awards; as bandmaster (U.S. Army), 51-53; as baritone/euphonium player, 40, 53; as baseball player, 18, 26-28;
and cats, 70, 167-68, 171, 172; on composer-conductor relationship, 123; composition, first 33; compositions published, first, 34, 121; conducting ambitions, 38, 39, 81, 85, 94, 109, 149, 188-89; as conductor, 40, 44, 58, 79-80, 202, 209, 213-14, 224-26, 232, 262; as cornetist, 24; on deadlines for arranging, 67, 75, 77, 79; on education, 22-23; ensemble playing, attraction of, 17; on fame, 138; and girls (courtship), 31-33; and handball, 38, 77n, 81-82, 149; "hear" a score page, ability to 94; honors. See awards received; on importance of theater music, 2, 10, 70; improvisation, nature of, 46; Instrumentally Speaking, 3, 4, 267; as lyricist, 107-8, 130n; marriage, 61-62; on memory, 15-16, 237; Music for an Hour (radio), 176, 180; music publication, justification for, 109; orchestration, without piano, 70; as organist, 35-37, 38; as pianist (concert and recital), 57, 58, 175; as pianist in Kansas City, 35-37, 40, 54-55, 119; as pianist in New York, 45, 46; as pianist in Washington, D.C., 45, 101-2; piano study with mother, 23, 24, 29, 33; poliomyletis, 17-19; on posterity, 137-38; practice, dislike for, 23-25;
radio programs. See his Music for an Hour and Russell Bennett's Notebook; ragtime, mother's objection to, 9, 107; on recording technology, 122; on religious faith, 57, 268; Russell Bennett's Notebook (radio), 114, 176-79, 180, 182, 193, 226, 317; (musical) snobbery of, 9-11, 29, 70, 97, 153, 183, 184; on song medleys, 183-84, 214-15; studies, harmony and counterpoint, 34-35, 37, 85; as teacher, 60-61, 62; and tennis: 36, 38, 51, 61, 64, 81-82, 89, 192, 195; on theater audiences, 239, 280, 301; on theater conducting, 74, 162, 189, 281-82; as trombonist, 24-25, 40; as violinist, 24, 29, 40, 44, 45, 144, 166 Arrangements: The Gershwin Nobody Knew, 78; A Symphonic Picture of "Porgy and Bess, " 183-84, 214, 223; A Symphonic Story of Jerome Kern, 258n. See also Appendix B Works: Abraham Lincoln Symphony, 120, 123, 126n, 229n; Adagio Eroico, 139n; Allemande, 175n; Antique Suite, 114n; Arabesque, 273; Autobiography, xiii, 3, 269; Carol Cantatas, 268-69; Charleston Rhapsody, 90n; Christmas Overture, 273; Commemoration Symphony (Foster), 222; Concerto for Viola, Harp, and Orch, 317; Concerto for Violin and Orch., 175n, 176n; Concerto for Violin, Piano, and Orch., 236;
Concerto Grosso for Dance Band and Orch., 139-40; Concerto Grosso for Woodwind Quintet and Wind Orch., 221n; Crystal, 266-67; Dance, 90n; Down to the Sea in Ships, 232; Dry Weather Legend, 43; An Early American Ballade (Stephen Foster), 139-40; The Easter Story, 268-69;
Eight Etudes, 164, 222,
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229n, 262; Electric Park. See Suite of Old American Dances; The Enchanted Kiss, 164; Endimion, 90; Fanfare, 273; Fountain Lake Fanfare, 171; The Four Freedoms, 186-87; Four Songs (Teasdale), 124; Fun and Faith of William Billings, 268; Give Me Liberty, 176n; Hamlet, 63; Happy Birthday, 198; Hexapoda, 37n, 61n, 175; Hold Your Horses, 121; Hollywood, 164, 204; An Hour of Delusion, 132; Kansas City Album, 202; Macbeth, 63, Mademoiselle, 204; The Many Moods of Christmas, 268; March for Two Pianos and Orch., 119, 125; March for America, 176; March for General MacArthur, 176; March of Might, 223; Maria Malibran, 117, 136, 146-47, 173n, 187, 266; Music Box Operas, 39, 177; Nietschze Variations, 128; Nocturne, 90; Ohio River Suite, 221-22; Orchestral Fragments from "Maria Malibran," 173; Overture to an Imaginary Drama, 39, 229; Overture to Ty, Tris, and Willie, 221;
Paysage, 90; Piano Concerto, 139n; Prayer for Fritz Kreisler, 130; Princess Charming, 106-8; Rhythm Serenade, 195; Romeo and Juliet; 63; Rondo Capriccioso, 43, 83, 119n, 309n; Seven Fox Trots in Concert Form, 139; Sights and Sounds, 90, 120n, 123; Six Souvenirs, 43; Six Variations on a Theme by Jerome Kern, 140; Soap Box Derby March, 262; Sonata, Violin and Piano, 95; Sonata in G for Organ, 88; Sonatine pour Sopran et Harpe, 318; Song Sonata, 61; Suite of Old American Dances, xii, 200-201, 204, 220, 314n; Symphonic Songs for Band, xii, 204, 220, 220n; Symphony (#1), 90n; Symphony (#7), 262-63; Symphony in D for the Dodgers, 178-79, 229n; Theme and Variations . . . about a Lorelei, 128; Three Chaucer Poems, 90, 95, 106n, 124; Three Humoresques, 221; TNT Cocktail, 171; Tone Poems for Band (N.Y. World's Fair), 171-72, 176n, 200n; Toy Symphony, 90, 309n; United Nations All Faith Prayer, 202; "VU," 89, 139; Zimmer's American Greeting, 267. See also Project 20 productions; Victory at Sea Berezowky, Nicholas, 124
Berlin, Ellin (Mrs. Irving), 22 Berlin, Irving, 22, 240-43; assistance from Bennett, 71; avoidance of music study, 9, 10; qualities of songs, 141, 185, 239 Works (See under titles): "Alexander's Ragtime Band"; "Always"; Annie Get Your Gun; As Thousands Cheer; "At the Automat''; Call Me Madam; Face the Music; "God Bless America"; "Let's Have Another Cup of Coffee"; Louisiana Purchase; Miss Liberty; Music Box Revue; "Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning"; "A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody"; "Say It with Music"; "Soft Lights and Sweet Music"; "That Mesmerizing Mendelssohn Tune"; Watch Your Step; "What'll I Do?" Berlioz, Hector, 124 Berman, Pandro, 158, 162 "Bidin' My Time," 114 "Bill," 102 Billings, William, 268 Bizet, Georges, 187 Blackton, Jay, 193-94, 197n, 200, 303-4 Blaine, Ralph, 204 Blake, Eubie, 138, 231, 283 Blitztein, Marc, 124, 234 Bloch, Ernest, 85, 111, 120 Bloch, Lucienne, 111 Bloch, Suzanne, 111 Blue Eyes, 105 Bodanzky, Artur, 117 "The Bohemians," 259-61 Bolton, Guy, 60, 72-73, 105, 144, 256 Born to Dance, 249-50 (See also song from Born to Dance: "Easy to Love") Borne, Hal, 159 Boudreau, Robert Austin, xii, 221, 267 Boulanger, Lili, 85, 87 Boulanger, Nadia: on artistic compromise, 121, 216; Bennett's study with, 37n, 83-88, 108-112, 118; and Copland, 120;
in New York, 169-70; reference to Guggenheim for Bennett, 81, 95-96; and Stravinsky, 169, 216; on "Tea for Two," 10 Bowles, Paul, 24 The Boy Friend, 74n
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Bradford, William (Gov.), 14n Brahms, Johannes, 240 Brass bands (U.K.), 106 Breton, Raoul, 131-32 Brigadoon, 179 Brigham Young, Frontiersman, 160n Broderick, Helen, 128 Brohn, William David, 274, 275 Brooks, Lawrence ("Larry"), 193-94 Busby, Earle, 115 Busch, Carl, 34-35, 37n, 81n "But Not for Me," 114 C Cadman, Charles Wakefield, 140 Caesar, Irving, 69-70, 126-27, 157, 243 Call Me Madam, 196 Camelot, 74, 203, 236-38, 273 (See also song from Camelot: "Guenevere") "Can I Forget You?," 157 "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man," 126 "Can't We Be Friends," 203 Captain Jinks, 66 Career, 160n Carmen Jones, 11, 64n, 100, 180n, 207n; staging of, 187-90, 252 Carmichael, Hoagy, 231 Carminati, Tullio, 124 Carnegie Hall, 199 Carousel, 66, 196, 246n, 275n Carpenter, John Alden, 140 Carrington, Katherine, 124
Caruso, Enrico, 49 Castle, Irene, 168-69 Castle, Vernon, 168-69 The Cat and the Fiddle, 143 Catfish Row, 184. See also Porgy and Bess Chapman, John, 65n Chappell & Co., 10, 66, 126, 220 Chasins, Abram, 11 Chautauqua (Institution), 19, 147n Chavez, Carlos, 124 Cinderella, 229, 237, 252 Clairvoyants. See astrologers Clayton, Herbert, 107 Clifton, Chalmers, 81 Collier, Constance, 46 Concerto in F (Gershwin), 109, 115n A Connecticut Yankee, 101, 184n Cook, Joe, 141 Copland, Aaron, 120, 124, 177; Symphony for Organ and Orchestra, 83 Coughlin, Bruce, 236n Count Me In, 182 Courage, Alexander, 219 Coward, Noel, 165, 237-38 Craighead, David, 88n Crews, Laura Hope, 46 Croce, Arlene, 159 Crouse, Russel, 141, 235n Crozier, Catharine, 88n D Daffy Dill, 65, 67-70
"Dahomey," 70 Daly, William, 69n, 115, 117, 125, 183 Damrosch, Polly (Mrs. Sidney Howard), 20 Damrosch, Walter, 20n, 83, 165 A Damsel in Distress, 163 "Dancing in the Dark," 128 Davenport, Pembroke, 25n Dear Sir, 74 "Dearly Beloved," 257 Debussy, Claude, 108n, 137, 267 DeLorenzo, Leonardo, 43 De Mille, Agnes, 261, 303 De Mille, Cecil B., 45, 208 De Packh, Maurice, 65-66, 77 Depression, Great (U.S.), 118, 132-33 Deutsch, Adolph, 165, 219-20 Dickey, Annamary (Annamarie), 146n Dietz, Howard, 63n, 128 Dillingham, Charles B., 73, 127 Disney, Walt, 38 Dr. Kildare's Strange Case, 46n Dodgers (Brooklyn), 178-79, 229n Dolan, Robert Emmett ("Bobby"), 204-5 Don't Forget Me, 78 Dorati, Antal, 268 Dorsey, Tommy, 181n Downes, Olin, 170 Drake, Alfred, 193n Dreyfus, Louis, 76, 130, 133-35 Dreyfus, Max, 11-12, 108, 111, 120; assignments for Bennett, 65, 76-77, 90, 183, 197, 205, 264; finances, 133-34;
and Gershwin, 117 Dubarry Was a Lady, 79 Duke, Vernon (Dukelsky, Vladimir), 109, 181n Dunne, Irene, 152, 156-57 Dushkin, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel, 169
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E East Wind, 148 Eastman School of Music, 43 Eastman Wind Ensemble, xii, xiii, 200n, 220 "Easy to Love," 250 Electric Park (Kansas City), 200-201 "Embraceable You," 114-15 Enesco, Georges, 260 The Etude (magazine), 34, 121 F The Fabulous Invalid, 140 Face the Music, 141 (See also songs from Face the Music: "At the Automat" ["Automat Opening"]; ''Let's Have Another Cup of Coffee"; "Soft Lights and Sweet Music") Fairbanks Jr., Douglas, 79 Farrar, Geraldine, 44 Fennell, Frederick, xi-xiii, 220 Ferber, Edna, 60 Ferencz, George, 220n Fiedler, Arthur, xiii, 180n, 215n, 216, 227n Fields, Dorothy, 64, 197 Fields, Herb, 197 Fifth Avenue Girl, 154, 158, 160n "A Fine Romance," 159 Finian's Rainbow, 203, 233 The Firefly, 74 Fisher, Rob, 274 Flagstad, Kirsten, 12 Fleisher, Leon, 193n Fletcher, Percy, 106 Flower Drum Song, 203, 233
"A Foggy Day (in London Town)," 163 Foldes, Andor, 139n Fontaine, Joan, 163-64 Forbstein, Leo, 36, 119 The Ford Show ("Stars of the Future"), 78n, 193-97, 311n The Fortune Teller, 214-15 Foss, Lukas, 150 Foster, Stephen, 139-40, 187, 222 Foxy, 204 Free for All, 64, 126n Freedley, Vinton, 113-15 Friml, Rudolf, 60n, 74, 76-77, 108 Fugitives for a Night, 160n Furst, William, 44-45 G Ganz, Rudolph, 110 Garcia, Manuel, 129n Garcia, Pauline Viardot, 129n Garcia (Malibran), Maria Felicita, 129. See also Bennett, Maria Malibran Gardella, Tess ("Aunt Jemima"), 104, 152 Gardner, Samuel, 85n Gaxton, William, 114 Gédalge, André, 247 Gensler, Lewis E., 79-80, 86 Gershwin, George, 64, 69n, 75, 125; Bennett, teamwork with, 67; Bennett's advice to, 93; as conductor, 116-17; death of, 116, 150n, 257; harmonic idiom, 291; legacy, 138;
"lost" works, 78; on Maria Malibran, 117; naiveté, 75, 116-17; as orchestrator, 115; parties in Paris, 109; as rehearsal pianist, 115; as student, 117, 181; talent, 322 Works (See under titles): An American in Paris; "Bidin' My Time"; "But Not For Me"; Catfish Row; Concerto in F; A Damsel in Distress; "Embraceable You"; "A Foggy Day (in London Town)"; Girl Crazy; "I Got Rhythm"; Lady Be Good!; Let 'Em Eat Cake, Of Thee I Sing; Pardon My English; Porgy and Bess; Rhapsody in Blue; Second Rhapsody. See also Bennett, The Gershwin Nobody Knew, and his A Symphonic Picture of "Porgy and Bess" Gershwin, Ira, 109, 114 Giannini, Vittorio, 147n Gigli, Beniamino, 58 Girl Crazy, 114, 158, 197, 274 (See also songs from Girl Crazy: "Bidin' My Time"; "But Not for Me"; "Embraceable You"; "I Got Rhythm") The Girl from Up There, 74 The Girl from Utah, 74 (See also song from The Girl from Utah: "The Same Sort of Girl") The Girl Who Came to Supper, 237-38 Glaenzer, Jules, 109, 185, 246 Glenn, Carroll, 193n Glover, Joe, 233n "God Bless America," 242 Going Up!, 69 Golden Dawn, 102 Goldman Band, 200-201, 204, 221n Goldman, Edwin Franko, 199-200 Goldman, Richard Franko, 200
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Golschmann, Vladimir, 109 Goodman, Benny, 114-15, 181n, 191n Gorman, Ross, 171-72 Gould, Morton, 16 Grainger, Percy, 200n Great Day, 244 Green, Johnny, 165 Green, Marion ("Bill"), 79-80 Greenwich Village Follies, 68-70 Greer, Frances, 193n Grofé, Ferde, 41, 115n, 140 Gruenberg, Louis, 85n, 124 "Guenevere," 237 Guggenheim Foundation (John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation), 64n, 81n, 95, 102, 108-10, 113 Gunga Din, 160 Guthrie, Tyrone, 262 Guys and Dolls, 204 H Hadley, Henry, 149-50 Hadley, Mrs. Inez. See Barbour, Inez Hall, Natalie, 124 "Hallelujah," 244 Hamlet, 63 Hammerstein, Arthur, 65, 74-75, 77, 102, 243 Hammerstein, Dorothy (Mrs. Oscar II), 99-100 Hammerstein, Oscar, 40, 74 Hammerstein, Oscar, II, 102-3, 128n, 141, 196-98, 251-53; adaptations, preference for, 124; ambitions as poet, 99-100; "ASCAP on Parade," 226;
failures, 64, 99; family (Oscar I, Arthur), 40, 74; friendship with Bennett, 99, 240; Gershwin, eulogy for, 257; qualities of lyrics, 99, 126; Rodgers, beginning of partnership, 184-85; and Romberg, 148; sense of humor, 40, 93. See also under Jerome Kern and Richard Rodgers Hanser, Richard, 209, 211, 233 Hanson, Howard, 90n, 140 Happy Birthday, 198 Harbach, Otto, 64, 76, 124, 142-43 Harline, Leigh, 165, 177a Harms, Inc., 58-59, 64-66, 79, 84 Harris, Roy, 88, 124, 177n Harshaw, Margaret, 180n, 193n Hart, Larry (Lorenz), 94, 148n, 198; death of, 184-85; first meeting (London) with Bennett, 97; schooling, 128. See also under Richard Rodgers Hart, Moss, 141 Have a Heart, 74n Hay, Mary, 73 Hayes, Helen, 198 Heads Up!, 118 Heifetz, Elsa, 61 Heifetz, Jascha, 61, 177n, 199n Heifetz, Pauline, 61 Hello Frisco, 69n Henry, O. (William Sidney Porter), 164
Herbert, Victor, 60, 64; death of, 150; as orchestrator, 65n, 287, 294 Works (See under titles): The Fortune Teller; "I Might Be Your 'Once-in-a-While'" Herrmann, Bernard, 140 High and Low, 128 High, Wide, and Handsome, 156-57, 218, 257 (See also song from High, Wide, and Handsome; "Can I Forget You?") Hindemith, Paul, 110 Hirsch, Louis, 69 Hit the Deck, 244 (See also song from Hit the Deck: "Hallelujah") Hitchcock, Raymond, 79 Hitchy-Koo of 1919, 59, 79 (See also song from Hitchy-Koo of 1919: "An Old Fashioned Garden") Hold Your Horses, 74, 141, 235n Honegger, Arthur, 109 Hoogstraten, William Von, 81 Hope, Bob, 142 Hopkins, Arthur, 63 Howard, Mrs. Sidney (Polly Damrosch), 20 Howard, Sidney, 20n Howard, Willie, 114 How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying, 204 Humperdinck, Englebert, 34 The Hunchback of Notre Dame, 160 Hyatt, Donald B., 208n, 209n, 211, 213n, 225, 230, 233n Hylton, Jack, 41 Hynes, Fred, 218-20 I "I Could Have Danced All Night," 70 I Dream Too Much, 144-45 "I Get a Kick Out of You," 248, 250
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"I Got Rhythm," 114-15 "I Love Louisa," 128 "I Love You," 73 "I Might Be Your 'Once-in-a-While,'" 62 "I Want to Be Happy," 70, 243 "I'll Be Hard to Handle," 142 "Indian Love Call," 77 influenza ("Spanish flu"), 52 Irwin, Will, 192 Iturbi, Jose, 89n, 139 "I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm," 242 Ives, Charles, 128 J James, Harry, 199n Joan, the Woman, 44 John, Graham, 105 "Johnny One-Note," 12 Jolson, Al, 55n Jones, Stephen Oscar, 66, 75, 77, 246, 290 Jubilee, 148 (See also songs from Jubilee: "Begin the Beguine"; "Just One of Those Things") Judson, Arthur, 228 Juillliard School of Music, 123n, 266 Jumbo, 68 Juno, 234 "Just a Kiss in the Dark," 62 "Just a Love Nest," 69 "Just One of Those Things," 148-49 K Kalmar, Bert, 91-92, 247 Kaufman, Annette, 121, 174-75, 235
Kaufman, George S., 141 Kaufman, Louis, 121, 174-75, 235 Kaye, Milton, 177n Keller, Helen, 203 Kern, Jerome, 151n, 253-58, 285; admiration for unsophisticated music, 240; on Debussy, 108n, 137; and Max Dreyfus, 76-77; first show with Bennett, 72; friendship with Bennett, 240; generosity of, 145, 252; health of, 156, 257; in Hollywood, 119-20, 257; and Romberg, 147-48; songs, Bennett's appraisal of, 99n; travel with Bennett, 118-19, 135, 256; working methods, 247, 253-54, 256-57 Works (See under titles): "All the Things You Are"; "Bill"; Blue Eyes; "Can I Forget You?"; "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man"; The Cat and the Fiddle; ''Dahomey"; "Dearly Beloved"; Dear Sir; "A Fine Romance"; The Girl from Utah; Have a Heart; High, Wide, and Handsome; I Dream Too Much; Joy of Living; "The Last Time I Saw Paris"; "Long Ago and Far Away"; "Look for the Silver Lining"; "Lovely to Look At"; Lucky; "Make Believe"; Men of the Sky; Music in the Air; "Ol' Man River"; "Once in a Blue Moon"; Ripples; Roberta; Sally; "The Same Sort of Girl"; Show Boat; Sitting Pretty; "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes"; "The Song Is You"; The Stepping Stones; Sunny; Sweet Adeline; Swing Time; Three Sisters; Very Warm for May; "Waltz in Swing Time"; "The Way You Look Tonight"; "Who?"; "Why Do I Love You?"; "Yesterdays." See also Bennett, Six Variations on a Theme by Jerome Kern, and his A Symphonic Story of Jerome Kern Kincaid, William, 43, 308, 309n The King and I, 202, 203, 208; film orchestrations, 151n; medley by Bennett, 214n; revival (1977), 273 Kiss Me, Kate, 25n, 203, 250, 274, 320; orchestrations, 79n, 200n, 226n (See also songs from Kiss Me, Kate: "Another Op'nin, Another Show," "Were Thine That Special Face") Knust, Valli Marguerite Alice. See Valli, Valli Kolisch, Rudolf, 109
Korngold, Erich Wolfgang, 153-54 Koussevitzsky, Serge, 110 Kreisler, Fritz, 129-31, 139n, 175n, 264, 320; Caprice Viennois, 130 Kreisler, Harriet (Mrs. Fritz), 130-31 Krueger, Miles, 93n, 115, 226n Krupa, Gene, 115 L LaBarre, Eugene, 171n Labatut, M. Jean, 170-71 Lady Be Good!, 66, 274 Lady in the Dark, 204 Lamour, Dorothy, 156, 163 Lane, Burton, 238n
Works (See under titles): Finian's Rainbow; On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
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Lang, Philip J., 3, 74n, 197, 227-28, 237 Langey, Otto, 215n Langley, Allan Lincoln, 125 "The Last Time I Saw Paris," 91, 132 League of Composers, xi, 124, 164, 199, 204 Lerner, Alan Jay, 74n, 236, 238 Let 'Em Eat Cake, 192n, 274 "Let's Have Another Cup of Coffee," 141 Levant, Oscar, 3, 125, 126n, 127; on Bennett, 151n; as composer, 124, 177n; as conductor, 141; on film scoring, 290n; on Gershwin, 138; as pianist, 119; Sonatina for Piano, 124; and Max Steiner, 146; study with Schillinger, 181n Lewis, Morgan ("Buddy"), 303 Lillie, Beatrice, 109 Lindbergh, Charles, 86 Lindsay, Howard, 235 Littau, Joseph, 171, 189 Little Jessie James, 73 Loesser, Frank, 203-4 Works (See under titles): Guys and Dolls; How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying; The Most Happy Fella Loewe, Frederick, 74n, 179n Works (See under titles): Brigadoon; Camelot; "Guenevere"; "I Could Have Danced All Night"; My Fair Lady; Paint Your Wagon Lombard, Carole, 158
"Long Ago and Far Away," 257 "Look for the Silver Lining," 62 Loos, Anita, 198 Losch, Tilly, 128 Louisiana Purchase, 274 Love Me Tonight, 157 "Lovely to Look At," 256 Lucky, 148 Lyne, Felice, 39-40, 46 M Macbeth, 63 MacMurray, Fred, 142 Maganini, Quinto, 83-84, 87, 113, 119 Mahler, Fritz, 39n "Make Believe," 97-98 Mamoulian, Rouben, 156-57, 218 Manson, Eddy Lawrence, 224 "March of the Siamese Children," 151 Marsh, Howard, 104 Marshall, Madeleine (Mrs. Robert Simon), 122 Martin, Mary, xiii, 193n, 235 Mary, 69 Mary Jane McKane, 184n, 243 Mata Hari (Ballad for a Firing Squad), 148, 239 Mauceri, John, 274 Maytime, 60 McGlinn, John, 274 McLane, Ralph, 114n Me and Juliet, 211, 213n Me for You (Heads Up) 118 Men of the Sky, 120 Mendelssohn, Felix, 17, 121
Menuhin, Yehudi, 193n Merman, Ethel, 114, 197 Merrill, Louise. See Louise Bennett Merrill, Winifred E., 48-50, 56-58, 106, 135 Messiaen, Olivier, 10 Mexican Hayride, 179 Miller, Glenn, 114-15, 181n, 233n, 312 Miller, Marilyn, 73 Mischakoff, Mischa, 213 Miss Liberty, 196 "Miss Otis Regrets," 250 Mitropolous, Dmitri, 15-16 Monroe, Vaughn, 193n, 199n Moody, George, 58-59, 78-79 Morgan, Frank, 128 Morgan, Helen, 101-2, 104, 151 Morison, Patricia, 226 Morison, Samuel Eliot, 208 Morros, Boris, 199 The Most Happy Fella, 204n Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 17 Music Box Revue (1921), 298 (See also song from Music Box Revue: "Say It with Music") Music in the Air, 124 (See also song from Music in the Air: "The Song Is You") Musical America competition, 85, 109 Musical Autograms, 49, 56, 58, 68-69 Musicians' union. See American Federation of Musicians My Fair Lady, 186, 203, 236, 237, 238; medleys by Bennett, 214n, 222; orchestrations for, 70, 227; revival (1976), 273;
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song from My Fair Lady: "I Could Have Danced All Night") "My Heart Stood Still," 101-2 My Son John, 204-5 N NAACC (National Association for American Composers and Conductors), 149-50 "The Naughty Pixie Mocking His Mother," 23, 279, 294, 305 New York Flute Club, 43, 83 New York World's Fair (1939-40), 170-72, 189, 200n The New Yorker, 122, 202 Newman, Alfred, 69, 119, 151n, 160, 173 Nichols, "Red," 114 "Night and Day," 248 "Nightingale Throw Me a Rose," 69 Nikisch, Arthur, 36n, 130 Nitke, Maurice, 45-46, 62-63, 148n Nixon, Richard, 230 No, No, Nanette, 66n, 209, 243, 274 (See also songs from No, No, Nanette: "I Want to Be Happy," "Tea for Two") "No Other Love," 211, 213n Nobody Home, 255 Noeltner, Robert, 227 North, Alex, 177n O Of Thee I Sing, 115, 192n, 264, 274 Offenbach, Jacques, 148, 215 "Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning," 51 Oklahoma!, 184n, 185-87, 196, 235n, 236; Bennett's billing, 180n; conductors, 192n, 194n, 220, 303-4; film (1955), 218-20; Hammerstein as lyricist, 64n, 100;
medley by Bennett, 214n; orchestration of title song, 303-4; revival (1969), 239; revival (1979), 273; Rodgers's satisfaction with orchestrations, 252 "Oklahoma!" (song), 185, 303-4 "Ol' Man River," 98-99, 151n "An Old Fashioned Garden," 59, 79 On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, 238 On Your Toes, 148n, 274 "Once in a Blue Moon," 140 One Dam Thing after Another, 101n (See also song from One Dam Thing after Another: "My Heart Stood Still") Ormandy, Eugene, 121, 215n "Oscars." See Academy Awards P Pacific Liner, 160n Paint Your Wagon, 179 Panama Hattie, 250 Pardon My English, 115, 274 Paris '90, 203 Paul, Walter (Walter Paul Dauzet), 79, 177n Peter Ibbetson, 46, 48 Piatigorsky, Gregor, 199n Pikes Peak (Colo.), 19-20, 84 Pipe Dream, 251 Piston, Walter, 177n Pomahac, Bruce, 233n Pons, Lily, 199n Poppy, 66n Porgy and Bess, 115n, 157, 189n. See also Bennett, A Symphonic Picture of "Porgy and Bess" Porter, Cole, 29, 64, 247-51, 322;
admiration for unsophisticated music, 240; length of songs, 148-49 Works (See under titles): Anything Goes; Around the World in 80 Days; "Begin the Beguine"; Born to Dance; Dubarry Was a Lady; "Easy to Love"; Hitchy-Koo of 1919; "I Get a Kick Out Of You"; Jubilee; "Just One of Those Things''; Kiss Me, Kate; Mexican Hayride; "Miss Otis Regrets"; "Night and Day"; "An Old Fashioned Garden"; Panama Hattie; Red, Hot and Blue; Rosalie; Seven Lively Arts; Silk Stockings; Something for the Boys; "Were Thine That Special Face"; "What Is This Thing Called Love?"; "You're the Top" Possell, George, 43 Post, Guy Bates, 45 "A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody," 297-300 Price, Leontyne, 224 Princess Charming, 107-8, 126 Project 20 productions (NBC), 219, 223-25, 227-33 Publishers (music). See Breton, Raoul; Chappell & Co.; Harms, Inc.; Salabert, Francis, et Cie.; Schirmer, G. R Raab, Leonid, 100, 103, 108, 165 Rabinof, Benno, 236n, 260
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Rabinof, Sylvia, 236n, 260 Rachmaninov, Sergei, 309, 320-21; first meeting with Bennett, 108, 264-65; Symphonic Dances, 264-65 Rahn, Muriel, 189n Rainbow, 184n Raksin, David, 169n Rapee, Erno, 120 Ravel, Maurice, 121 RCA (Radio Corporation of America), 109 RCA composition contest. See Victor Records Rebecca, 160 Red, Hot and Blue!, 169 Reiner, Fritz, 121, 125, 199n, 222; commission for Symphonic Picture of "Porgy and Bess," 183; Symphony #7 (Bennett), 262-63 Respighi, Ottorino, 140 Reynolds, Gerald, 128 Rhapsody, 130n Rhapsody in Blue, 41n, 77, 115, 172 Ripples, 127 Roberta 142, 256 (See also songs from Roberta: "Lovely to Look At"; "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes"; "Yesterdays") Roberti, Lyda, 142 Robeson, Paul, 90, 151 Rockwell, Norman, 186 Rodgers, Richard, 71, 97, 242, 251-53; as businessman, 184; film musical orchestrations, 152n; first (Paris) meeting with Bennett, 94, 132; generosity of, 251-52;
Hart & Hammerstein works compared, 185 Works (See under titles): Allegro; Carousel; Cinderella; A Connecticut Yankee; Flower Drum Song; Happy Birthday; "Johnny One-Note"; Jumbo; The King and I; "March of the Siamese Children"; Me and Juliet; "My Heart Stood Still"; ''No Other Love"; Oklahoma!; "Oklahoma!"; On Your Toes; One Dam Thing after Another; Pipe Dream; The Sound of Music; South Pacific; Victory at Sea Rodzinski, Arthur, 199n Rogers, Ginger, 93, 114, 157-59, 169 Romberg, Sigmund, 64n, 69n, 147-48 Romeo and Juliet, 63 Ronell, Ann, 182 Rosalie, 250 Rose, Billy, 188-91, 198 Rose, Leonard, 193n Rose Marie, 60, 74n, 76-77, 79, 282 Roussel, Albert, 112 Royal, Ted (Ted Royal Dewar), 3, 179, 181 Ruben, Jose, 143-44 Ruby, Harry: 134-35; collaboration with Bert Kalmar, 91-93; friendship with Bennett, 222, 240; and Gershwin, 116-17; as humorist, 157, 247; on song construction, 93 S Saddler, Frank, 65, 67, 202, 287-88 Salabert, Francis, et Cie., 84 Salabert, Roger, 84 Salk, Jonas, 17, 19 Sally, 60, 74n Salomon, Henry ("Pete"), death of, 229-30; and Project 20, 218, 223, 228; and Victory at Sea, 208-9, 211-14 Salzer, Gus, 74 Samaroff, Olga, 110
"The Same Sort of Girl," 74 Saminsky, Lazare, 109 Sandrich, Mark, 157 "Say It with Music," 242 Scharf, Walter, 165 Schillinger, Joseph, 181-82 Schirmer, G. (publisher), 44-45, 48-49, 58 Schoenheit, Brown, 42-43 Schubert, Franz, 11, 139 Schumann, Robert, 139 Schwartz, Arthur, 128 Works (See under titles): The Band Wagon; High and Low Scott, Randolph, 156 Second Rhapsody (Gershwin), 93 Serly, Tibor, 177n Sessions, Roger, 124 Seven Lively Arts, 191, 207n Shakespeare, William, 16n, 32 Plays (See under titles): Hamlet; Macbeth; The Merchant of Venice; Othello; Romeo and Juliet Shall We Dance, 155 Shaw, Artie, 115n Shaw, Robert, 207, 268, 323-24 Shilkret, Nathaniel, 140 Shirer, William L., 86
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Show Boat, 60, 90, 94, 97-99; banjo, use of, 282-83; Bennett's deadlines, 102, 282; film (1929), 151n; film (1936), 151-52; out-of-town tryouts, 101-4; in Paris (Mississippi), 111-13; recording, complete (1978), 274; revival (1946), 274; revival (1966), 239, 275. (See also songs from Show Boat. "Bill"; "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man"; "Dahomey"; "Make Believe"; ''Ol' Man River"; "Why Do I Love You?") Silk Stockings, 250 Silvers, Louis, 119, 198 Simon, Robert A., 122, 128-29, 146, 164, 180, 93 Sirmay (Szirmai), Albert: 107, 177n; as music editor, 227n, 250; as Porter's assistant, 247-48, 250. See also Princess Charming Sissy, 129n Sitting Pretty, 73, 144, 256, 274 "Sixty Seconds Every Minute," 69 Skinner, Cornelia Otis, xi, 203, 264 Smith, Melville, 88n Smith, Muriel, 189 "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes," 142 "Soft Lights and Sweet Music," 141 Something for the Boys, 79, 182 "The Song Is You," 124-25 Song of the Flame, 74n, 77-78 The Sound of Music: xiii, 203, 235-36, 297n; film, 220n, 236;
film orchestrations, 151n; medleys by Bennett, 214n, 222-23 Sousa, John Philip (Sousa Band), 46-47, 49, 52, 314 South Pacific, 37n, 185-85, 200n, 202, 203, 236; film (1958), 151n, 220n; medley by Bennett, 214n Spach, Barrett, 87-88 Spach, Maurine, 87 Spanish-American War, 18 "Spanish flu." See influenza Speicher, Eugene, 165 Spialek, Hans, 3, 66-67, 266, 248n; on Bennett, 182; as composer, 148n, 177n, 181n; as copyist, 213n; orchestrations for Romberg, 148; "rediscovery" of, 148n, 274; on Youmans's talent, 244-45 Stafford, Jo, 193-94 Stanley and Livingstone, 160n The Star Spangled Banner, 52 "Stars of the Future." See The Ford Show Steinberg, William, 179, 222 Steiner, Max, 119, 144-46 The Stepping Stones, 140 (See also song from The Stepping Stones: "Once in a Blue Moon") Stern, Eric, 274 Stern, Isaac, 193n Stevens, Risë, 146n, 199n Still, Mrs. William Grant (Verna Arvey), 138n Still, William Grant, 177n Stock, Frederick, 110 Stoessel, Albert, 147n
Stokowski, Leopold, 110, 122-23, 199n, 229 Stone, Dorothy, 72 Stone, Fred, 72 The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle, 168-69 Stothart, Herbert: collaborators, 75-77; at M.G.M., 119; as theater conductor, 65, 68, 74-75, 282 Works (See under titles): Daffy Dill; Mary Jane McKane; Rose Marie, Song of the Flame; Wildflower Strauss, Johann, 215 Strauss, Richard, 144 Stravinsky, Igor, 169-70, 191, 216 Stringfield, Lamar, 43 The Student Prince, 60 Styne, Jule, 229 Suesse, Dana, 177n Sunny, 60, 73 (See also song from Sunny: "Who?") Sunny River, 64n "Swanee," 62, 70 Sweet Adeline, 74, 148n "Sweet and Hot," 142 Swift, Kay, 203 Swing Time, 159, 257 (See also songs from Swing Time. "A Fine Romance"; "Waltz in Swing Time"; "The Way You Look Tonight") T Tansman, Alexander, 109 Taylor, Deems, 109, 125 "Tea For Two," 10, 70, 243-44 Terris, Norma, 104 Texas, Li'l Darlin', 204 "That Mesmerizing Mendelssohn Tune," 242
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Thomas, Michael Tilson, 274 Thomson, Virgil, 124 Three Little Words, 91 "Three Little Words," 91 Three Sisters, 64n, 142 Three to Make Ready, 68 Three Wishes for Jamie, 204 Tibbett, Lawrence, 164 Tinney, Frank, 65, 67-68, 158, 169 Tiomkin, Dmitri, 109 Top Speed, 93, 159 Toscanini, Arturo, 15-16, 123, 172, 209n Tours, Frank, 163 Train, Arthur Kissane, Jr., 131-32 Tri-State Band Festival, 217 Truex, Ernest, 13 Truman, Harry, 40 Tunick, Jonathan, 330 U Urban, Gretl, 76, 79 Urban, Josef, 79 V Valli, Valli, 134 Verdi, Giuseppe, 9 Very Warm for May, 64, 255, 274 (See also song from Very Warm for May: "All the Things You Are") Victor Records (composition contest), 109-10, 112, 118, 120-21, 123n Victory at Sea, 15n, 208-14, 217, 224; Bennett's contract, 219; Bennett's contributions, 4, 209, 213; harp scoring in, 319;
Nixon's love of score, 230n; RCA recordings, 214; Rodgers's contributions, 210, 211, 213n; Rodgers's invitation to Bennett, 205-6; television syndication, 275 Vidal, Paul, 84 Vitaphone (sound recording), 97 W Wagner, Richard, 144n, 267 Wake up and Dream, 247 Walker, Don, 3, 196 Wallenstein, Alfred, 121, 172-73, 180, 227n Wallenstein, Virginia, 121, 172-73 Waller, Jack, 107 Walter, Bruno, 199n "Waltz in Swing Time," 159 Warfield, William, 224 Warner, Russell, 274 Watch Your Step, 169 Watts, Wintter, 85n Waxman, Franz, 100n, 160 "The Way You Look Tonight," 257 Webb, Clifton, 73-74 Webern, Anton von, 122 "Were Thine That Special Face," 248 Whale, James, 151 "What Is This Thing Called Love?," 62 "What'll I Do?," 242 White Christmas, 204 Whiteman, Paul, 41, 73n, 115n Whiting, Richard ("Jack"), 64n, 78-79, 120, 126 "Who?," 73
"Why Do I Love You?," 103, 322 Wilcox, Larry, 274 Wild, Earl, 193n Wildflower, 60, 66n, 74n, 77, 184n, 246 Wilson, Woodrow, 49 Winninger, Charles, 151 The Wizard of Oz, 72 Wodehouse, P. (Pelham) G., 60, 64, 72-73, 144, 256 Worthington, Floyd, 146n WPA (Federal Music Project), 81, 123n Wyeth, Andrew, 261-62 Y Yaddo Festival, 124 "Yesterdays," 142 You Said It, 142 Youmans, Vincent: 60, 64, 192, 243-47; as businessman, 184; talent, 75, 322 Works (See under titles): "Hallelujah"; Hit the Deck; "I Want to Be Happy"; No, No, Nanette; Mary Jane McKane; "Tea for Two"; Wildflower "You're the Top," 250 Z Zevitas, George, 213 Ziegfeld, Florenz, 55, 90, 153, 208 Ziegfeld Follies, 59, 68, 238 Zinneman, Fred, 218-19