Artist's albums
Bennett: Abraham Lincoln / Sights and Sounds
1999 · album
More Victory At Sea
1992 · album
Victory At Sea
1992 · album
Romantic Moments
2020 · EP
Bennett: Works for Wind Orchestra
2016 · album
Twentieth Century Classics, Vol. 2
2016 · compilation
Victory At Sea, Vol. 3
1961 · album
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Biography
Bennett studied with Busch in Kansas City and with Boulanger in Paris. He composed a wide variety of music, including several symphonies and orchestral works, music for chamber groups and wind bands, two operas and a ballet-opera. However, Bennett's recognition stems from his work in orchestration. This career started with a commission in 1919 by the publishers T.B. Harms to orchestrate songs for the theatre. One of his earliest efforts was Cole Porter's =An Old Fashioned Garden= (1919). He went on to become the leading orchestrator for Broadway musicals from the 1920s to the 60s. He scored some 300 productions, including the works of Kern, Gershwin, Berlin, Rodgers and Lowe. His efforts established criteria for other orchestrators to follow, and elevated the status of the orchestrator to equal to that of the authors and composers. =Instrumentally Speaking= (Melville, NY, 1975), is the title of his book on orchestration.