Robert Prince (May 10, 1929[1] – March 4, 2007[citation needed]) was an American composer of music for dance, theater, television, film and records and a graduate of the Juilliard School.
Throughout the 1960s and 1970s he composed background music for a variety of dramatic television series including episodes of The Wild Wild West, Mission: Impossible, Wonder Woman, The Streets of San Francisco, Columbo, Murder, She Wrote, and Rod Serling's Night Gallery.
He is also credited with the 1975 Universal Television jingle, which incorporated the first four notes of Esquivel and Wilson's Revue/Universal TV fanfare.
Notable among these albums is Saxes Inc. which is arranged for an ensemble of twelve saxophones and rhythm section and features some of the top New York jazz and studio players of the time including Phil Woods, Gene Quill, Al Cohn and Zoot Sims.
[4] Prince's two compositions for Jerome Robbins are considered excellent examples of Third stream music, the blending of jazz and classical styles.