Robert Hood Bowers
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Robert Hood Bowers was an American composer, conductor and musical director of operettas and stage musicals, and a conductor and musical director for radio. He composed the musical scores for some of
Portrait of Robert Hood Bowers
Cover of the sheet music of Chinese Lullaby, a song created by Bowers for the musical East is West in 1919
Victor Herbert
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Victor August Herbert was an American composer, cellist and conductor of English and Irish ancestry and German training. Although Herbert enjoyed important careers as a cello soloist and conductor, he
Robert Hood Bowers
…only son was also called Robert Hood Bowers (born in 1906, he became a professor of English at the University of Florida.) Working as a conductor for Victor Herbert for five years, and as a conductor at the radio stations WMCA, WEAF and WOR, as well as for the Columbia Phonograph Company, Robert Hood Bowers composed…
Victor Herbert in 1906
Concert poster for Eduard Strauss's orchestra
Photo from Prince Ananias (1894), Herbert's first operetta
Sheet music for the title song from Sweethearts