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* Robert Longfield, American composer and arranger, served as the band and orchestra director at Davison High School from 1972-1987.
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Robert and American
Indeed, if pressed, we would say what the late Robert Henri, American painter, said to a pupil, `` Anything will do for a subject: it's what you do with it that counts ''.
Gershwin based An American in Paris on a melodic fragment called " Very Parisienne ", written in 1926 on his first visit to Paris as a gift to his hosts, Robert and Mabel Schirmer.
His first generation of students included Alfred Kroeber, Robert Lowie, Edward Sapir and Ruth Benedict, who each produced richly detailed studies of indigenous North American cultures.
* 1865 – American Civil War: The Battle of Sayler's Creek – Confederate General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia fights its last major battle while in retreat from Richmond, Virginia.
* 1893 – Robert Harron, American actor ( d. 1920 )
* 1908 – Robert Lee Scott, Jr., American pilot ( d. 2006 )
* 1916 – Robert Shaw, American conductor ( d. 1999 )
* 1955 – Robert Richardson, American cinematographer
* 1964 – Robert Bogue, American actor
* 1917 – Robert Mitchum, American actor ( d. 1997 )
He wrote, " Robert Henderson, Harold Seymour, and other scholars have since debunked the Doubleday-Cooperstown myth, which nonetheless remains powerful in the American imagination because of the efforts of Major League Baseball and the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown.
* 2005 – Robert Coldwell Wood, American political scientist and educator ( b. 1923 )
* 1843 – Robert Todd Lincoln, American lawyer and politician, 35th United States Secretary of War ( d. 1926 )
* 1953 – Robert Cray, American singer and guitarist
* 1863 – American Civil War: following his defeat in the Battle of Gettysburg, General Robert E. Lee sends a letter of resignation to Confederate President Jefferson Davis ( which is refused upon receipt ).
* 1895 – Robert Dean Frisbie, American writer ( d. 1948 )
* 1959 – Robert Casilla, American artist and illustrator
* 1930 – Robert Culp, American actor ( d. 2010 )
* 1937 – Robert Stone, American novelist
* 1966 – Robert Maschio, American actor
* 1970 – Robert Horry, American basketball player
* 1924 – Robert Solow, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
* 1925 – Robert Mulligan, American director ( d. 2008 )
* 1933 – Robert Curl, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
* 1865 – American Civil War: The Siege of Petersburg is broken – Union troops capture the trenches around Petersburg, Virginia, forcing Confederate General Robert E. Lee to retreat.
Robert and composer
* 1815 – Robert Volkmann, German composer ( d. 1883 )
* 1915 – Robert Strassburg, American composer ( d. 2003 )
Daniel Robert " Danny " Elfman ( born May 29, 1953 ) is an American composer, best known for scoring music for television and film and creating The Simpsons main title theme as well as the 1989 Batman movie theme.
* 1927 – Robert Fuchs, Austrian composer ( b. 1847 )
* 1975 – Robert Lopez, American composer
* 1847 – Robert Fuchs, Austrian composer ( d. 1927 )
* 1927 – Robert Allen, pianist and composer of popular songs ( d. 2000 )
In Search of the Pharaohs is a 30-minute cantata for narrator, junior choir and piano by composer Robert Steadman, commissioned by the City of London Freemen's School, which uses extracts from Carter's diaries as its text.
* 1925 – Robert Beadell, American composer ( d. 1994 )
* 1810 – Robert Schumann, German composer ( d. 1856 )
* 1917 – Robert Farnon, Canadian conductor and composer ( d. 2005 )
* 1574 – Robert Fludd, English composer and writer ( d. 1637 )
* 1954 – Robert Carl, American composer
* 1920 – Robert Mann, American violinist, composer, and conductor ( Juilliard String Quartet )
* 1954 – Robert Beaser, American composer
Canadian composer / saw player Robert Minden pays tribute to him on his website.
The composer Krzysztof Penderecki wrote regularly for the musical saw, including several obbligato parts in his comic opera Ubu Rex, and Canadian composer Robert Minden has written extensively for the musical saw.
* 1927 – Robert Drasnin, American musician and composer
* Robert Morris ( composer ) ( born 1943 ), British-American composer
The drink was named in honor of the premiere of Rob Roy, an operetta by composer Reginald De Koven and lyricist Harry B. Smith loosely based upon Scottish folk hero Robert Roy MacGregor.
* 1917 – Robert Ward, American composer
* Robert Morton ( – 1479 ), English composer of the early Renaissance.
* September 13 – Robert Ward, American composer ( d. 1994 )
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