Musicals / Composers
Richard Rodgers was born on June 28, 1902, in Hammels Station, Long Island, borough of Queens, New York City. He is one of the most renowned Broadway composers with string of successes on stage and screen first with librettist Lorenz Hart, and hitting the box office when he teamed up with Oscar Hammerstein II.
Rodgers studied at Columbia University (1919-21) and the Institute of Musical Art (1921-23), later at Juilliard School, New York.
His first smash at the Broadway musical with Oscar Hammerstein II was Oklahoma (1943, NY), followed by Carousel (1945), South Pacific (1949), The King and I (1951) and The Sound of Music (1959).
With Lorenz Hart, his earlier collaboration before Hammerstein II, Rodgers aimed to use good poetry in place of the banal lyrics of current popular songs. Their association produced 30 stage musicals as well as films.
A Tribute to Richard Rodgers
On Hart’s death in 1943 Rodgers formed a partnership with Oscar Hammerstein II which led to a series of musical that enjoyed unprecedented success, from Oklahoma! (1943, which integrated song, dance and drama) to South Pacific (1949) and the all-time favourite The Sound of Music (1959) starring Julie Andrews which undergoes a continuous film re-runs to this day. The songs of Rodgers are sure-inspiring - ‘Climb Every Mountain’, ‘This Nearly was Mine’, ‘Oh What a Beautiful Morning’, ‘If I Loved You’, ‘My funny Valentine’, ‘Younger than Springtine’ and many more. Apparently, his productivity declined after Hammerstein’s death in 1960.
His other musicals with Hart include Dearest Enemy (1925), A Connecticut Yankee (1927) and and On Your Toes (1936) among others; and two more with Hammerstein, Me and Juliet (1953) and The Flower Drum Song (1958).
Richard Rodgers died in New York, December 30, 1979.
Richard Rodgers was born on June 28, 1902, in Hammels Station, Long Island, borough of Queens, New York City. He is one of the most renowned Broadway composers with string of successes on stage and screen first with librettist Lorenz Hart, and hitting the box office when he teamed up with Oscar Hammerstein II.
Rodgers studied at Columbia University (1919-21) and the Institute of Musical Art (1921-23), later at Juilliard School, New York.
His first smash at the Broadway musical with Oscar Hammerstein II was Oklahoma (1943, NY), followed by Carousel (1945), South Pacific (1949), The King and I (1951) and The Sound of Music (1959).
With Lorenz Hart, his earlier collaboration before Hammerstein II, Rodgers aimed to use good poetry in place of the banal lyrics of current popular songs. Their association produced 30 stage musicals as well as films.
A Tribute to Richard Rodgers
On Hart’s death in 1943 Rodgers formed a partnership with Oscar Hammerstein II which led to a series of musical that enjoyed unprecedented success, from Oklahoma! (1943, which integrated song, dance and drama) to South Pacific (1949) and the all-time favourite The Sound of Music (1959) starring Julie Andrews which undergoes a continuous film re-runs to this day. The songs of Rodgers are sure-inspiring - ‘Climb Every Mountain’, ‘This Nearly was Mine’, ‘Oh What a Beautiful Morning’, ‘If I Loved You’, ‘My funny Valentine’, ‘Younger than Springtine’ and many more. Apparently, his productivity declined after Hammerstein’s death in 1960.
His other musicals with Hart include Dearest Enemy (1925), A Connecticut Yankee (1927) and and On Your Toes (1936) among others; and two more with Hammerstein, Me and Juliet (1953) and The Flower Drum Song (1958).
Richard Rodgers died in New York, December 30, 1979.
Suggested video:
Day at Night: Richard Rodgers. YouTube, uploaded by CUNY TV. Accessed June 28, 2017.
Video Credit:
A Tribute to Richard Rodgers Part 1 of 2. YouTube uploaded by The HEHR ARCHIVE. Accessed June 28, 2021. (Re-accessed to current link, June 28, 2023)
A Tribute to Richard Rodgers Part 2 of 2. YouTube uploaded by The HEHR ARCHIVE. Accessed June 28, 2021. (Re-accessed to current link, June 28, 2023)
Image Credit:
Richard Rodgers. Wikipedia Commons. Public Domain
Resources:
1. Opera. András Batta, Editor-in-Chief. Könemann (2000, for English Version)
2. Richard Rodgers. en.wikipedia.org. Accessed June 28, 2008.
3. The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd Edition, edited by Stanley Sadie. London: Macmillan Publishers (2000)
4. Richard Rodgers - Composer. Biography.com. Accessed June 28, 2016.
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