Victory at Sea - Richard Rodgers, arr. Robert Russell Bennett
Victory at Sea is a 1950s television documentary series that chronicles the Pacific theater of World War II from the American perspective. Famed Broadway composer Richard Rodgers (South Pacific, The King and I, The Sound of Music) composed 12 themes to form the basis of the series's music. Robert Russell Bennett is credited as orchestrator for the series (as he was for several Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals), but in reality he composed the bulk of the music for the 13-hour series using Rodgers's themes as his basis.
Youtube performance (from a funny perspective and a bit cut off at the end, but definitely the best performance on Youtube):
Several Youtube excerpts of the Victory at Sea documentary.
Music site at victoryatseaonline.com - has lengthy excerpts of the music with several of the main themes contained in Bennett's Symphonic Scenario.
Victory at Sea on the Museum of Broadcast Communications website.
Victory at Sea on the Internet Movie Data Base.
Richard Rodgers biography on Wikipedia.
Robert Russell Bennett biography on Wikipedia.
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