Ralph Hermann(1914-1994)
- Music Department
- Composer
Composer, songwriter, publisher, conductor, musician and arranger,
educated at the Wisconsin Conservatory and Northwestern University and
in private music study with Dick Koebner and Harvey Krueger. He was a
musician in local orchestras and in the Wisconsin Symphony, and toured
in bands. Eventually he joined the staff at WTMJ (Milwaukee) as a
musician, conductor and arranger. During World War II, he founded the
Weisbaden Symphony as well as a dance band. Joining NBC as a choral
arranger, he eventually joined the NBC Symphony under Arturo Toscanini and went
on to arrange for Guy Lombardo, Andre Kostelanetz, Dinah Shore, and Jane Pickens. In 1953
he joined ABC as a staff conductor, and he also began free-lance
composing and arranging about that time, and then a music
publisher.