Richard Rodgers Hardcover - 2003
by William Hyland
Although he reaped wealth, success, and recognition, including two shared Pulitzer Prizes, composer Richard Rogers found happiness elusive. In this first comprehensive biography of Rogers, Hyland tells the full story of the complex man and his incomparable musical genius. 17 illustrations.
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Hyland's portrait of Rodgers (1902-79) begins with his childhood in an affluent Jewish family living in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan. During college years at Columbia University and early work on the amateur circuit and Broadway, Rodgers entered into a historic collaboration with the lyricist Lorenz Hart. The team produced a dozen popular shows and such enduring songs as "The Lady Is a Tramp". Rodgers' next partnership, with Oscar Hammerstein II, led to the creation of the musical play, a new and distinctively American art form. Beginning with Oklahoma! in 1943, this pair dominated Broadway for almost twenty years with a string of hits that remain beloved favorites: Carousel, South Pacific, The King and I, and The Sound of Music. When Hammerstein died in 1960, Rodgers began a new phase in his career, writing the lyrics to his own music, then joining lyricists Stephen Sondheim, Sheldon Harnick, and Martin Charnin. Despite depression, excessive drinking, hypochondria, and devastating illness at different points in his life, Rodgers' outpouring of music seemed little affected, and he continued to compose until his death at age seventy-seven. An icon of the musical theater, Rodgers left a legacy of timeless songs that audiences return to hear over and again.
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- Title Richard Rodgers
- Author William Hyland
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 376
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Yale University Press, New Haven, CT
- Date 2003-12-11
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
- ISBN 9780300071153 / 0300071159
- Weight 1.67 lbs (0.76 kg)
- Dimensions 9.21 x 6.14 x 1 in (23.39 x 15.60 x 2.54 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Composers - United States - Biography, Rodgers, Richard
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 97041161
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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- Booklist, 04/01/1998, Page 1292
- Kirkus Reviews, 04/01/1998, Page 467
- Library Journal, 05/01/1998, Page 102
- New York Times, 05/17/1998, Page 38
- Publishers Weekly, 04/20/1998, Page 56
- Univ PR Books for Public Libry, 01/01/1999, Page 50
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