Robert Prince (composer)

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This article is about the ballet and Broadway composer. For Bobby Prince, composer of music for games, see Robert Prince.

Robert Prince (1929^[1] – March 4, 2007) was an American composer of music for dance, theater, film and records. A graduate of the Juilliard School of Music he was also an accomplished performer on timpani and vibraphone.

Dance and Theater

Prince composed the music for two groundbreaking ballets choreographed by Jerome Robbins for his company Ballets USA; N.Y. Export: Opus Jazz (1958) and Events (1961), as well as incidental music for the play Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad which Robbins directed off-Broadway in 1962.

Prince also composed and arranged music for the musicals Something More! (1964), Half a Sixpence (1965) and The Office (1966).

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.

Prince released several albums under his own name for the Warner Brothers label in the late 1950s. 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 excellent examples of Third Stream music which is the blending of jazz and classical styles.

Discography

What's New? New Jazz from Teo Macero and Bob Prince - Columbia CL 842 (1956)
Johnny Mathis - Columbia CL 887 (1956) arranged two tracks
The Bob Prince Quintet: Dancing with Oh Captain! - Harmony HL 7097 (1958)
N.Y. Export: Op. Jazz - 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)
Desmond Blue with Paul Desmond - RCA Victor (1962) arranger

References

↑ Kate Hevner Mueller, Twenty-Seven Major American Symphony Orchestras (Bloomington: Indiana University Studies, 1973), p. 263

External links

Official website New York City Ballet

Internet Broadway Database entry

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Date of birth	1929
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Date of death	March 4, 2007
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