COMPOSER

RISE TO FAME

“Ev’rythin’s up to date in Kansas City.
They’ve gone about as fur as they c’n go!”
—Lyrics to “Kansas City”

Robert Bennett is one of the most prolific composers in Broadway history. He orchestrated the musical scores for more than three hundred Broadway shows, while arranging and conducting and learning to play practically every instrument in the orchestra.

Broadway is his claim to fame, but he worked on several Hollywood film scores as well. His amazing amount of success in several genres puts him in the history books as one of the more successful composers and musicians of all time.

EXTRA, EXTRA!

*Bennett won an Oscar in 1955 for his work on Oklahoma!

*He won a Special Tony Award in 1957 for his immense body of work on Broadway.

*His first “official” appearance as a conductor was at the age of eleven.