1904-1986 US
Composer / Conductor of Classical
Robert Sutton Whitney (July 6, 1904 – November 22, 1986) was an American conductor and composer. He was a student of Leo Sowerby.Robert Whitney was best known for founding, on November 1937, together with the mayor of Louisville, Kentucky the Louisville Orchestra, and becoming its first conductor, a post he held until 1967. (Its original name was the Louisville Civic Orchestra.) His concerto grosso had earlier (1934) been performed by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.Whitney also served as Dean of the School of Music of the University of Louisville, from 1956-1971.
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Title | Artist | Year | Type |
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Notturno Di Canti E Balli / Short Symphony (Testament To A Big City) | Gian Francesco Malipiero / Irwin Bazelon - The Louisville Orchestra, Robert Whitney | 2009 | Album |
British Modern Vol. 1 | Arthur Bliss • Edmund Rubbra • Malcolm Arnold • John Addison – Sidney Harth, Paul Kling, Peter McHugh, Leon Rapier – The Louisville Orchestra / Jorge Mester & Robert Whitney | 2005 | Compil. |
Sinfonia Elegiaca / Nocturne / Rhapsody | Andrzej Panufnik – The Louisville Orchestra, Robert Whitney | 2003 | Compil. |
Orchestral Works (American Archives Series) | Robert Kurka, Peter Mennin, Walter Piston, The Louisville Orchestra, Jorge Mester, Robert Whitney, Janos Starker | 1998 | Album |
Symphony No. 5 / Concerto For Flute | Bohuslav Martinů / Virgil Thomson - The Louisville Orchestra, Robert Whitney | 1995 | Album |
When Johnny Comes Marching Home • Epilogue To Profiles In Courage: JFK • Prayer In The Time Of War • Symphony No. 4 • Symphonia Brevis | The Louisville Orchestra, Roy Harris, William Schuman, John J. Becker, Jorge Mester, Robert Whitney | 1990 | Album |
Chansons De Ronsard / Symphony No. 6 | Darius Milhaud - The Louisville Orchestra, Jorge Mester, Robert Whitney | 1980 | Album |
The Louisville Orchestra | Robert Whitney, The Louisville Orchestra, Jorge Mester | 1980 | Album |
Symphony No. 1, Op. 9 | Peter Racine Fricker – Robert Whitney, The Louisville Orchestra | 1980 | Album |
Improvisation For Violin And Orchestra - Concerto For Violin And Orchestra | Edmund Rubbra, Benjamin Britten, Sidney Harth, Paul Kling, The Louisville Orchestra, Robert Whitney | 1977 | Album |
Piano Concerto No. 2: Symphony No. 2 | Alexander Tcherepnin, The Louisville Orchestra, Robert Whitney | 1977 | Album |
Symphony No. 5 / Symphony No. 5 | Roy Harris, Bohuslav Martinů - The Louisville Orchestra, Robert Whitney | 1977 | Album |
Symphony No. 1 | Peter Racine Fricker, The Louisville Orchestra | 1977 | Album |
Orchestral Fantasy / Rhapsody For Orchestra | Boris Blacher / Andrzej Panufnik – The Louisville Orchestra, Robert Whitney | 1967 | Album |
Triptych / Partita In C For Piano And Small Orchestra | Alvin Etler / Harold Shapero – The Louisville Orchestra, Robert Whitney, Benjamin Owen | 1967 | Album |
Symphony No. 5 / Concerto Grosso | Walter Piston / William Kraft - The Louisville Orchestra, Robert Whitney | 1965 | Album |
Concerto For Wind Quintet And Orchestra / Variations On "America" / Umbrian Scene | Alvin Etler / Charles Ives - William Schuman / Ulysses Kay, Robert Whitney | 1965 | Album |
Untitled | The Louisville Orchestra, Robert Whitney | 1965 | Album |
Symphony No. 1 (Communique 1943) / Symphony No. 2 | Ross Lee Finney / Daniel Pinkham - The Louisville Orchestra, Robert Whitney | 1965 | Album |
Suite From Ballet “Abraxas” / Wedding Music From “Undine” / Diversions For Orchestra | Werner Egk / Hans Werner Henze / Irving Fine – The Louisville Orchestra, Robert Whitney | 1964 | Album |
Soliloquy Of A Bhiksuni - Due Pezzi / Partita | The Louisville Orchestra, Robert Whitney, Chou Wen-chung, Luigi Dallapiccola, Jose Serebrier | 1964 | Album |
Symphony No. 5 / Concerto Grosso | Alexander Tcherepnin / Richard Mohaupt - The Louisville Orchestra, Robert Whitney | 1964 | Album |
Symphony No. 2 / Divertimento No. 2 | Quincy Porter, Vittorio Giannini, Robert Whitney | 1964 | Album |
Concerto For Viola And Orchestra / Symphony No. 2 In One Movement | Walter Piston, Hall Overton, The Louisville Orchestra, Robert Whitney | 1963 | Album |
Contours For Orchestra / Night Flight / Serenade For Small Orchestra | Hale Smith / Gardner Read / Robert Kurka, The Louisville Orchestra, Robert Whitney | 1963 | Album |
Louisville Orchestra Commissions | William Schuman, Gian Francesco Malipiero, The Louisville Orchestra, Robert Whitney | 1960 | Album |
Louisville Orchestra Commisions | Paul Hindemith, Claude Almand, David Diamond, The Louisville Orchestra, Robert Whitney | 1960 | Album |
Ben-Haim: To The Chief Musician Metaporphoses For Orchestra, Riegger: Variations For Violin And Orchestra, Op. 71 | Paul Ben-Haim, Wallingford Riegger, The Louisville Orchestra, Robert Whitney | 1960 | Album |
Harrison: Four Strict Songs For Eight Baritones And Orchestra, Korn: Variations On A Tune From "The Beggar's Opera" | Lou Harrison, Peter Jona Korn, The Louisville Orchestra, Robert Whitney | 1958 | Album |
Capriccio / The Mirror / The Tower Of Saint Barbara | Alexandre Tansman / Felix Borowski / Ingolf Dahl – The Louisville Orchestra, Robert Whitney | 1956 | Album |
Symphony No. 6 / Variations For Piano And Orchestra / Notturno | Peter Mennin / Wallingford Riegger / Ernst Toch - The Louisville Orchestra, Robert Whitney | 1955 | Album |
Invocation And Dance, Op. 58 / Alvorada Na Floresta Tropical / Triskelion | Paul Creston / Heitor Villa-Lobos / Halsey Stevens – The Louisville Orchestra, Robert Whitney | 1955 | Album |
Erosion (Erosão). Origin Of The Amazon River / The Triumph Of St. Joan Symphony | Heitor Villa-Lobos / Norman Dello Joio – The Louisville Orchestra, Robert Whitney | 1953 | Album |
Invocation And Dance, Op. 68, A Louisville Concerto, Symphony No. 11 | Robert Whitney, The Louisville Orchestra | Album | |
Louisville Orchestra Commissions Volume III | The Louisville Orchestra, Robert Whitney | Album | |
Louisville Orchestra Commissions Volume II | The Louisville Orchestra, Robert Whitney | Album | |
Judith - Undertow | William Schuman, The Louisville Orchestra, Robert Whitney | Album | |
Magnificat For Four Solo Voices, Chorus And Orchestra, Opus 157 / All In The Spring Wind | The Louisville Orchestra, Alan Hovhaness, Chou Wen-chung, Robert Whitney | Album | |
Louisville Orchestra Commissions Volume I | The Louisville Orchestra, Robert Whitney | Album | |
Louisville Orchestra Commissions Volume IV | The Louisville Orchestra, Robert Whitney | Album | |
Louisville Orchestra Commissions Vol. V | The Louisville Orchestra, Robert Whitney | Album | |
Concerto For Orchestra / Movements For Orchestra / Uno Espressione | Benjamin Lees / Ronald Herder / Luigi Nono - The Louisville Orchestra, Robert Whitney | Album | |
Suite From “The Good Soldier Schweik” / Symphonic Variations | Robert Kurka / Carlos Surinach – The Louisville Orchestra, Robert Whitney | Album | |
Thesis / Ballet Suite, “La Madrugada Del Panadero” | Henry Cowell / Rodolfo Halffter – The Louisville Orchestra, Robert Whitney | Album |
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