The Music for Victory at Sea: Richard Rodgers, Robert Russell Bennett, and the Making of a TV Masterpiece

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Foreword Part One: Victory's Inception, Production, and Impact I. Henry Salomon, NBC, the U.S. Navy, and Victory's Genesis II. Assembling Victory's Production Team, Preparing an Episode III. Victory's Debut Season: Sponsorship (or Not?), Promotion, Schedu
Introduction
Chapter 1 EP1, "Design for War"
Chapter 2 EP2, "The Pacific Boils Over"
Chapter 3 EP3, "Sealing the Breach"
Chapter 4 EP4, "Midway is East"
Chapter 5 EP5, "Mediterranean Mosaic"
Chapter 6 EP6, "Guadalcanal"
Chapter 7 EP7, "Rings Around Rabaul"
Chapter 8 EP8, "Mare Nostrum"
Chapter 9 EP9, "Sea and Sand"
Chapter 10 EP10, "Beneath the Southern Cross"
Chapter 11 EP11, "The Magnetic North"
Chapter 12 EP12, "The Conquest of Micronesia"
Chapter 13 EP13, "Melanesian Nightmare"
Chapter 14 EP14, "Roman Renaissance"
Chapter 15 EP15, "D-Day"
Chapter 16 EP16, "Killers and the Killed"
Chapter 17 EP17, "The Turkey Shoot"
Chapter 18 EP18, "Two If by Sea"
Chapter 19 EP19, "Battle of Leyte Gulf"
Chapter 20 EP20, "Return of the Allies"
Chapter 21 EP21, "Full Fathom Five"
Chapter 22 EP22, "The Fate of Europe"
Chapter 23 EP23, "Target Suribachi"
Chapter 24 EP24, "The Road to Mandalay"
Chapter 25 EP25, "Suicide for Glory"
Chapter 26 EP26, "Design for Peace" Postscript ***************************
Appendix One Robert Russell Bennett: A Grandson's Victory Remembrance
Appendix Two Victory at Sea: A Chronology
Appendix Three Digest of Victory's Music-Scoring Statistics
Appendix Four Sample Shot List (EP26)
Appendix Five The 1959 Companion Book Selected
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index

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This long-awaited study explores the creation of NBC-TV's landmark 1952-53 WWII documentary series, with particular attention to its evocative Rodgers-Bennett score. Victory at Sea, NBC-TV's innovative 1952-53 WWII documentary, was eventually broadcast to more than 100 million viewers worldwide. Its episodes chronicled the war's conflicts while highlighting the US Navy's contributions, NBC having sourced footage from the military, governments, and newsreel agencies of fourteen nations. Victory's special distinction was its music, with each episode's nonstop score recorded by the acclaimed NBC Symphony Orchestra. The music was credited to Richard Rodgers-then at the height of his fame-as composer, and Robert Russell Bennett as arranger and conductor. In fact, Rodgers composed twelve piano themes; Bennett developed these endlessly for orchestra and, in addition, composed many hours of the score outright. Part One chronicles Victory's gestation and production at NBC, its reception, the series' afterlife in syndication and home video, and the score's "Gold Record" sales success on RCA records. Part Two examines each episode in turn, focusing on how the Bennett-scored music pairs with screen action. Every transformation of the much-used Rodgers themes is cited, along with the episodes' musical inter-relationships. The hundreds of musical examples generously sample the score's 11½ hours of music. NBC's Victory has been neglected by Richard Rodgers's biographers and by film historians. As the series celebrates its 70th anniversary, the Rodgers-Bennett score here finally receives recognition for its artistry and power.

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