Robert Crawford(1899-1961)
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Songwriter ("The US Air Force" ["The Army Air Corps]), composer,
conductor, author, teacher and singer, educated at Princeton
University, the Fontainebleau Conservatory in France (on scholarship),
Juilliard (on scholarship), and a student of Francis Rogers. He
directed the Princeton Glee Club, and conducted the orchestra there.
Later, he taught at Juilliard, and directed the Music Foundation in
Newark, New Jersey and the Bach Cantata Club in 1931. He was a soloist
for ten years at the St. Thomas Church in New York. In New Jersey, he
conducted the Contemporary Choral in Maplewood, and the Aeolian Choir
in Trenton. He was the summer conductor for the Newark Symphony
Orchestra, and soloist for the Rochester and Worcester (NY) Festivals
of the Chautauqua Opera, the Oratorio Society of New York and the Bach
Choir of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. In World War II, he was a major in
the ATC, and afterwards, an associate professor at the University of
Miami. Joining ASCAP in 1941, his other song compositions include
"Pagan Prayer", "To Everyman", "Behold What Manner of Love", "Mechs of
the Air Corps, "Cadets of the Air Corps" and "Born to the Sky" (the
official ATC song).
