Robert Prince
Robert Prince (May 10, 1929 – March 4, 2007) was an American composer of music for dance, theater, television, film and records and a graduate of the Juilliard School. In addition to his work as composer and arranger he also performed on vibraphone and timpani.
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Robert Prince
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- Name
- Robert Prince
- Birthplace
- New York City, U.S.
- Born
- May 10, 1929
- Place of death
- Los Angeles, California, U.S.
- Died
- May 4, 2007 (aged 77)
- Occupation
- Composer, arranger, producer
- Nationality
- United States
- Education
- Juilliard School
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Robert Prince, compositore, nacque il 10 maggio 1929 e morì il 4 marzo 2007.
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Il luogo di nascita di Robert Prince è New York, Stati Uniti, secondo la Bibliothèque nationale de France e la Deutsche Nationalbibliothek. Il luogo di morte di Robert Prince è Los Angeles, California, Stati Uniti, secondo la Bibliothèque nationale de France e la Deutsche Nationalbibliothek.
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• Name — Robert Prince • Birthplace — New York City, U.S. • Born — May 10, 1929 • Place of death — Los Angeles, California, U.S. • Died — May 4, 2007 (aged 77) • Occupation — Composer, arranger, producer • Label — Columbia, Warner Bros., RCA Victor • Instruments — drums, percussion
Dance and theater
Dance and theater
Prince is noted for composing the jazz-influenced music for N.Y. Export: Op. Jazz (1958) and Events (1961). These were groundbreaking modern ballets choreographed by Jerome Robbins for his company Ballets USA. Prince also composed incidental music for the play Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad which Robbins directed off-Broadway in 1962. He also composed and arranged music for the musicals Something More! (1964), Half a Sixpence (1965) and The Office (1966).
Jazz
Jazz
Prince was also active as a composer, arranger and producer in the jazz and pop field where he went by the name Bob Prince and contributed to several projects for Columbia Records in the 1950s for Paul Desmond, Johnny Mathis, Johnny Hodges, and Wayne Shorter Commissioned to write “Meet The Band” for Benny Goodman USSR Tour of The Soviet Union in 1962 for a piece “that would introduce each member of the band and then feature the horn sections as units. It was the second number after the theme every night of the tour, and invariably got everyone into a good groove.” Liner notes to RCA Records Benny Goodman In Moscow Contracted to the Warner Bros. label in 1959 he released four albums under his own name. Notable among these albums is Saxes Inc. which is arranged for an ensemble of twelve saxophones and rhythm section and features some of the top New York jazz and studio players of the time including Phil Woods, Gene Quill, Al Cohn and Zoot Sims. There is also a guest appearance by Coleman Hawkins. Prince's two compositions for Jerome Robbins are considered excellent examples of Third stream music, the blending of jazz and classical styles.
As leader
As leader
• What's New? New Jazz from Teo Macero and Bob Prince – Columbia CL 842 (1956) • The Bob Prince Quintet: Dancing with Oh Captain! – Harmony HL 7097 (1958) • N.Y. Export: Op. Jazz from "Ballets U.S.A." and Ballet Music from Leonard Bernstein's "West Side Story" – Warner Bros. – 1240 (1959) • Orchestral Moods of a Western Sunset – Warner Bros. – 1259 (1959) • Charleston 1970 – Warner Bros. – 1276 (1959) • Saxes Inc. – Warner Bros. – 1336 (1959) • Events and N.Y Export: Op. Jazz – RCA Victor LPM/LSP-2435 (1961)
As arranger and sideman
As arranger and sideman
• Johnny Mathis with Johnny Mathis – Columbia CL 887 (1956) arranger • Far Out, Near In with Johnny Eaton – Columbia CL 996 (1956) vibraphone • Desmond Blue with Paul Desmond – RCA Victor (1962) arranger
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Film and television
Prince composed the music for Francis Ford Coppola's 1966 film You're a Big Boy Now, the George Peppard film Newman's Law (1974), the cult horror film Squirm (1976) and the blaxploitation movie J. D.'s Revenge (1976), and wrote the music for TV movies such as Gargoyles (1972), The Return of Charlie Chan (1973), Scream, Pretty Peggy (1973), The Strange and Deadly Occurrence (1974), Where Have All the People Gone? (1974), The Dead Don't Die (1975) and Snowbeast (1977). Throughout the 1960s and 1970s he composed music for a variety of dramatic television series including episodes of The Wild Wild West, Dynasty 1981 Season and Pilot,Mission: Impossible, Banacek 1973 season and Pilot,Wonder Woman, The Streets of San Francisco, Columbo, Murder, She Wrote, and Rod Serling's Night Gallery. He is also credited with the 1975 Universal Television jingle, which incorporated the first four notes of Esquivel and Wilson's Revue/Universal TV fanfare. Additional scores for TV series included Bionic Woman, Ripleys Believe It Or Not, Matlock, Mission Impossible, Banacek, The Blue Knight, Ironside, McCloud, The Wild Wild West, Mannix, The Gathering I and IIThe Virginian, The Young and The Restless, and Alias Smith and Jones.
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- 1.Kate Hevner Mueller, Twenty-Seven Major American Symphony Orchestras (Bloomington: Indiana University Studies, 1973), p. 263
- 2.George Avakian, liner notes to RCA Victor LPM/LSP-2435
- 3.ASCAP and BMI
- 4.Liner notes to Columbia Records CL 842
- 5.George Avakian, liner notes to Warner Brothers 1336
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