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

Preface Acknowledgments Part One: Victory's Inception, Production, and Impact 1. Henry Salomon, NBC, the U.S. Navy, and Victory's Genesis 2. Assembling Victory's Production Team, Preparing an Episode 3. Victory's Debut Season: Sponsorship (or Not?), Promotion, Scheduling, and Awards 4. Richard Rodgers: Twelve Themes for Victory, the "Thirteen Hour Score" Legend, and Two Breakout Hits 5. Robert Russell Bennett: Preparing for Victory, Music for a Global War, and the Importance of F# 6. The NBC Symphony-and Victory's 1952-53 Recording Sessions 7. The Victory Scripts' Poetics 8. Robert Montgomery, C.S. Forester, and Victory 9. Victory on Records: The Commercial and "House" LPs 10. Victory Abridged: for Film (1954) and Television (1960) 11. Victory's Predecessors and Successors Part Two: The Twenty-Six Victory Episodes Introduction EP1, "Design for War" EP2, "The Pacific Boils Over" EP3, "Sealing the Breach" EP4, "Midway is East" EP5, "Mediterranean Mosaic" EP6, "Guadalcanal" EP7, "Rings Around Rabaul" EP8, "Mare Nostrum" EP9, "Sea and Sand" EP10, "Beneath the Southern Cross" EP11, "The Magnetic North" EP12, "The Conquest of Micronesia" EP13, "Melanesian Nightmare" EP14, "Roman Renaissance" EP15, "D-Day" EP16, "Killers and the Killed" EP17, "The Turkey Shoot" EP18, "Two If by Sea" EP19, "Battle of Leyte Gulf" EP20, "Return of the Allies" EP21, "Full Fathom Five" EP22, "The Fate of Europe" EP23, "Target Suribachi" EP24, "The Road to Mandalay" EP25, "Suicide for Glory" 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 Bibliography Index