Department of Music, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
2017 Center of the Arts
800 W. Main Street, Whitewater WI 53190
office: (262) 472-4842
ferenczg@mail.uww.edu
 

Music Theory Coordinator, teaching theory and aural-skills (ear-training) courses,
including Arranging and Composition.
 

IMPORTANT NOTE: I'm on sabbatical Spring Semester 2001 and rarely available
"in person" at my office. Please contact me via e-mail.

Research Interests
Robert Russell Bennett--In addition to preparing the Bennett entry for the revised New Grove Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians, I'm proud to be author/editor of two books:
 

Robert Russell Bennett: A Bio-Bibliography.Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1990.

The Broadway Sound: The Autobiography and Selected Essays of Robert Russell Bennett. Edited by George J. Ferencz.
University of Rochester Press (Boydell & Brewer), 1999. Eastman Studies in Music 12.

Note: The two links above are to the publisher's online listings. These are available from the publishers as well as many online bookstores (Amazon, Barnes & Noble, etc.). The Broadway Sound is to be issued in paperback early in 2001.
 
 
 
 

This is a scene from the 1939-1940 New York World's Fair. The "Lagoon of Nations" featured a fireworks/fountain/gas-fired-flame spectacle evening, designed by M. Jean Labatut, who taught architecture at Princeton. The music for these fifteen-minute shows (six in all) was written by Robert Russell Bennett and performed by a 50-member band that included members of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and NBC Symphony as well as 28 alumni of the Sousa Band. Sadly, the spectacles were never filmed; Bennett's music survives, but is unpublished and unrecorded.