Herschel Burke Gilbert
Herschel Burke Gilbert was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States on April 20th, 1918 and is the Composer. At the age of 85, Herschel Burke Gilbert biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Herschel Burke Gilbert (April 20, 1918 – June 8, 2003) was a prolific orchestrator, musical editor, and writer of film and television scores and theme songs, including The Rifleman (starring Chuck Connors), Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater, and Robert Taylor's The Detectives (starring Robert Taylor).
Gilbert claimed that his compositions had been used in at least three thousand individual episodes of many television series.
Early years and education
Gilbert was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to Samuel Gilbert and Bertha Shevinsky, both born in the Russian Empire. He began studying the violin in Shorewood, Milwaukee County, at the age of nine. He had formed his own dance band by the time he was 15 years old. He attended Milwaukee State Teachers College (now University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee) for four years, two as an undergraduate and two as a graduate, from 1939-1943 at the Juilliard School of Music in New York City. Gilbert earned a music scholarship to the Berkshire Music Festival in Massachusetts, where he studied under Aaron Copland and Leonard Bernstein. He also performed the viola with bandleader Harry James.