Kansas City is alive with the sound of Robert Russell Bennett's music. Bennett is the Kansas City native who orchestrated many of the most well-known musicals of the 20th century. On this episode of ...

Kansas City native Robert Russell Bennett is best known for his work on 300 Broadway scores, but he also composed significant concert works. We’ll hear excerpts from his major symphonic works, ...

With “South Pacific” clocking the season’s second-highest number of nominations, it’s fitting that the late orchestrator Robert Russell Bennett will be honored with a special Tony Award for his ...

Kansas City native Robert Russell Bennett was the most respected arranger/orchestrator of theater music in the golden age of Broadway. In the first of three shows about him, we sample a tiny fraction ...

On the radio last Sunday, a U. S. composer poked mild fun at a friend. The fun was some low viola chitchat in a string orchestra: a musical impression of the almost inaudible wit of Musicritic Robert ...

On the recital program which Pianist José Iturbi played in Manhattan last week a composer with the prosaic name of Bennett kept company with Haydn, Schumann, Chopin, Brahms, Liszt. Haydn and Schumann ...

Radio listeners last week heard a piece of music inspired by a baseball team. Lean, drawly Composer Robert Russell Bennett, who in his youth was a semi-pro ballplayer, played a new Symphony in D for ...

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