Click on the
dates above for more about me. As a toddler
in New Jersey, George Robb discovered composing music
was his true passion. However, he never studied music in a classroom
environment.
Many
of the songs that are included in the first CD were composed by George
in the mid 1940's while he was
working for General Motors in Kansas City,
as an Industrial Engineer. In the mid 1950's, two of his melodies
were played by the organist at the
Radio City Music Hall while George and his wife sat in the audience.
As
soon as the first song was introduced ("A Crazy Little Mixed-up Affair"),
Gabriela exclaimed, "Honey,
Honey,
that's YOUR SONG!" while several in the audience around her held
their
forefinger to their lips, "Shsh!" In the 1960's he moved to Florida to
work for NASA and TWA. During that
time, he was elected president of the 800-member TWA Management Club,
and was the founder and chairman of the 72-member Kennedy Space Center
Chorus.
One day he was summoned to the office of the head of NASA Public Relations
and to his amazement
was asked to prepare the scenario and the music for a nationally televised
program about NASA's role
in sending a man to the moon in the late 1960's. It was at this time
that the melody, "Saga of Space" was
composed, among others; however, TWA moved George to Kansas City before
the project
was completed. Shortly after he returned to Kansas City in 1968, George
founded a 75-member TWA Ambassador Chorus and played an integral
role in the
dedication ceremonies of the new Kansas City International Airport. A
life-long dream began to take shape when George reached his 80th birthday
in 2001. That was the beginning of the recording of the fifteen
melodies on the CD, "GEORGE ROBB'S AMERICANA" involving members
of the Kansas City Symphony, a male octet from the Lyric Opera of
Kansas City, a bass singer from the Ukraine ("Oh Lord, Where's That
Man?"), as well as several local bands
and many talented artists from the Midwest. George
plans to follow up with many additional CD's comprising a wide
variety of original music. In loving memory of Gabriela and Rick
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