Robert De Cormier(1922-2017)

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Composer, conductor and arranger, educated at Juilliard. He taught at the Little Red Schoolhouse for six years, and conducted and arranged for Harry Belafonte, later founding the Robert De Cormier Singers, and making many records. He joined ASCAP in 1958, and arranged for the Broadway musicals "110 In the Shade" and "The Happiest Girl In the World". His popular-song compositions include "Walking Together Children".

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Known for

Great Performances

7.9

TV Series

Music Department

The Group

6.5

Music Department

1966

Play of the Week

7.3

TV Series

Music Department

That Time of Year

6.2

Soundtrack("The Son of Mary")

2018

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Music Department

Great Performances
7.9
TV Series
- choral director
- 1991
Our American Musical Heritage
TV Series
- musical direction
- 1971
The George Mitchell Choir: Around the World in Song
TV Series
- choral arrangements
- musical director
- 1962–1966
The Group
6.5
- conductor
- 1966
The Ed Sullivan Show
7.9
TV Series
- chorus director
- 1962
Belafonte, New York 19
TV Special
- musical director (as Robert DeCormier)
- 1960
Play of the Week
7.3
TV Series
- music
- 1959

Soundtrack

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Alternative names
- Bob DeCormier
Born
- January 7, 1922
- Long Island, New York, USA
Died
- November 7, 2017
- Rutland, Vermont, USA(complications from a urinary infection)
Spouse
- Louise Dobbs1950 - November 7, 2017 (his death, 2 children)
Other works
Work: "The Jolly Beggars" (cantata).

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Trivia
He took up the trumpet at age 7, and continued while attending Colby College in Maine and the University of New Mexico. His trumpet playing ended during WWII, when a German mortar shell nearly severed his right wrist while his Army infantry unit was advancing toward the Rhine River. He was recovering at a hospital on Staten Island when he began singing with the CIO chorus.