Robert Russell Bennett lived a dual life, orchestrating the best known musicals of such composers as Gershwin, Porter, Berlin and Kern, while building a large catalogue of vivid and often highly descriptive symphonic works. Among his best known is the 1929 tribute to Abraham Lincoln, a score that burns with a passionate American pride. In Sights and Sounds, Bennett creates an abstract musical painting of America at the end of the 1920s.