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by Edward K. Kaplan| 2018| 376 pages| 18| English

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Richard Rodgers a musical genius whose Broadway career spanned six successful decades composed more than a thousand songs for the American stage Although he reaped wealth success and recognition that included two shared Pulitzer Prizes Rodgers found happiness elusive In this first comprehensive biography of Rodgers William G Hyland tells the full story of the complex man and his incomparable music 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 periods of 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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Author:Edward K. Kaplan
Publication Year:2018
ISBN:9780300143508
Pages:376
Language:English
File Size:18
Format:PDF
Price:FREE
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