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Charles Gilbert Jr.

American composer, lyricist, director, educator

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ5078031 ↗
Source-derived summary

Charles Gilbert Jr. is a writer, composer, director and educator who specializes in musical theater. Gilbert served as Director of the Brind School from 2008 to 2013 after heading its Musical Theater Program for nearly twenty years.

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Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2008, 2013—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Charles, Gilbert and American can be independently traced.
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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 14, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5078031. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2008 and 2013.

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This entry incorporates text from “Charles Gilbert Jr.” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.