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The Sound of Broadway Music lso by teven uskin A S S Show Tunes: The Songs, Shows, and Careers of Broadway’s Major Composers Berlin, Kern, Rodgers, Hart, and Hammerstein: A Complete Song Catalogue Opening Night on Broadway: A Critical Quotebook of the Golden Era of the Musical Theatre, Oklahoma! (1943) to Fiddler on the Roof (1964) More Opening Nights on Broadway: A Critical Quotebook of the Musical Theatre, 1965–1981 Broadway Yearbook 1999–2000 Broadway Yearbook 2000–2001 Broadway Yearbook 2001–2002 A Must See! Brilliant Broadway Artwork Second Act Trouble: Behind the Scenes at Broadway’s Big Musical Bombs STEVEN SUSKIN The Sound of Broadway Music A Book of Orchestrators and Orchestrations 1 2009 1 Oxford University Press, Inc., publishes works that further Oxford University’s objective ofexcellence in research, scholarship, and education. Oxford New York Auckland Cape Town Dar es Salaam Hong Kong Karachi Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Nairobi New Delhi Shanghai Taipei Toronto With offices in Argentina Austria Brazil Chile Czech Republic France Greece Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan Poland Portugal Singapore South Korea Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukraine Vietnam Copyright © 2009by Oxford University Press, Inc. Published by Oxford University Press, Inc. 198Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10016 www.oup.com Oxford is a registered trademark ofOxford University Press All rights reserved. No part ofthis publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission ofOxford University Press. Library ofCongress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Suskin, Steven. The sound ofBroadway music : a book oforchestrators and orchestrations / Steven Suskin. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN978-0-19-530947-8 1. Instrumentation and orchestration—History. 2. Orchestrators. 3. Musicals—New York (State)—New York—History and criticism. I. Title. ML455.S872008 782.1(cid:2)41374097471—dc22 2008005333 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2 Printed in the United States ofAmerica on acid-free paper For my wife, Helen, without whose love, encouragement, and patience this book would have been a four-page article for my children, Johanna and Charlie, who make every day a joyous adventure and for the heretofore anonymous orchestrators whose names will nevermore be forgotten by anyone who reads these pages “Oklahoma! Overture”by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II. Orchestration by Robert Russell Bennett. Bennett labeled the overture as coming from Lilacs, short for the working title Green Grow the Lilacs. This was changed to Away We Go!by the time the show premiered in New Haven, and ultimately to Oklahoma!Copyright © 1943by Williamson Music. Copyright renewed. International copyright secured. All rights reserved. Used by permission. From the Richard Rodgers Collection in the Music Division of the Library of Congress. CONTENTS VERSE On Orchestrators and Orchestration 3 REFRAIN Men of Notes (and a Few Women, Too) 11 Section I. The Dreyfus System 11 Section II. Twelve Major Orchestrators 24 Russell Bennett 24 Sid Ramin 72 Ralph Burns 33 Ted Royal 79 Robert “Red”Ginzler 41 Eddie Sauter 85 Hershy Kay 48 Hans Spialek 87 Irwin “Irv”Kostal 55 Don Walker 99 Philip J. Lang 67 Larry Wilcox 115 Section III. Ghosts and Other Helpers 116 Section IV. Valued Members of the Music Department 127 Roger Adams 128 Elliot Lawrence 145 Franz Allers 128 Stanley Lebowsky 146 Jack Andrews 129 Hugh Martin 147 David Baker 130 Jack Mason 148 Jay Blackton 131 Peter Matz 149 Pembroke Davenport 132 John Morris 150 Buster Davis 133 Robert H. Noeltner 151 Frederick Dvonch 135 Walter Paul 151 Lehman Engel 136 Mathilde Pincus 152 Marion Evans 137 Donald Pippin 153 Dorothea Freitag 138 Genevieve Pitot 154 Joe Glover 138 Trude Rittman 155 Max Goberman 140 Milton Rosenstock 156 Herbert Greene 141 Menotti Salta 157 Hal Hastings 142 William Stegmeyer 157 Luther Henderson 143 Jim Tyler 158 Peter Howard 144 Betty Walberg 159 viii Contents Section V. Assessing Orchestrators 160 BRIDGE The Art of Orchestration 173 Section I. From Song to Stage 173 Section II. The Arrangement 178 Section III. Overture 202 Section IV. Meet the Colors 212 Section V.Then Comes the Orchestrator 234 Section VI. The Orchestration 250 Section VII. Putting It Together 260 Section VIII. Sweeneyin the Pit with Steve 281 FINAL REFRAIN What’s the Score? 291 Section I. About the Listings 291 Section II. The Listings 314 Section III. Additional Shows by Other Orchestrators 584 CODA 609 Section I. Chronology 609 Section II. Acknowledgments 627 Section III. Sources and Bibliography 634 INDEX 639 The Sound of Broadway Music
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