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Robert Russell Bennett, 68, of Hartford, passed away on Sunday, December 28, 2014. Born in Hartford, son of the late Russell and Catherine (Dunn) Bennett, he was a longtime resident of Hartford and a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

One composer (Robert Russell Bennett) had tried to dignify the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball club with a Symphony in D (TIME, May 26, 1941). Last year George (Tubby the Tuba) Kleinsinger had the ...