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Richard Rodgers was one of America's most prolific and best-loved composers. A world without "My Funny Valentine," "The Lady is a Tramp," "Blue Moon," and "Bewitched," to name just a few of the songs he wrote with Lorenz Hart, is scarcely imaginable, and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Block, Geoffrey Holden, 1948-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2002.
Colección:Readers on American musicians.
Temas:
Rodgers, Richard, > 1902-1979 > Criticism and interpretation.
Rodgers, Richard, > 1902-1979.
Rodgers, Richard.
MUSIC > Genres & Styles > Musicals.
Aufsatzsammlung
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. 1 Rodgers and Hart, 1919-1943 : The age of Rodgers and Hart / Ethan Mordden
  • "My heart stood still" : Gerald Mast ; Richard Rodgers ; Philip Furia ; Alec Wilder ; Allen Forte
  • from Letters to Dorothy, 1926-1937 and A Personal Book / Dorothy Rodgers
  • Chee-Chee, the castration musical / Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart
  • Cover story : "The boys from Columbia" / Time Magazine
  • "Words and music : Rodgers and Hart" / Margaret Case Harriman
  • Pal Joey : drawing "sweet water from a foul well" / Brooks Atkinson
  • "Not a few of his songs were left on the cutting room floor" / Stanley Green
  • Remembering Rodgers and Hart / Oscar Hammerstein.
  • pt. 2 Rodgers and Hammerstein, 1943-1960 : "As corny as Kansas in August, as restless as a willow in a windstorm" / Gerald Mast
  • "The work that changed the form" / Ethan Mordden
  • The theatre guild presents Oklahoma! and Carousel / Lawrence Langner
  • "R. and H." / Agnes De Mille
  • "What is a Richard Rodgers?" / Joshua Logan
  • "There's hope for everyone" / Mary Martin
  • The art of adaptation / Lehman Engel
  • Rethinking Pal Joey / Brooks Atkinson
  • "The American musical" / Eric Bentley
  • "The musical stage" / George Jean Nathan
  • "Moving in the direction of opera" / Leonard Bernstein
  • A few favorite things about Rodgers with Hammerstein / Alec Wilder
  • "The nicest guys in show business" / Cleveland Amory
  • "Introduction" to Richard Rodgers / David Ewen.
  • pt. 3 Rodgers after Hammerstein, 1960-1979 : "You can't force it" / Winthrop Sargeant
  • "Rodgers without Hammerstein" / Arthur Gelb, Barbara Gelb
  • "Richard Rodgers is calling" / Diahann Carroll
  • "The less said, the better" / Craig Zadan
  • "The plot against musicals" / Walter Kerr
  • The perils of producing Rex / Richard Adler
  • Anatomy of a flop : Pipe Dream, Do I Hear a Waltz?, Rex, and I Remember Mama / Ken Mandelbaum
  • "Overture" to Richard Rodgers / William G. Hyland
  • "Introduction" to Musical Stages / Mary Rodgers Guettel.
  • pt. 4 The composer speaks, 1939-1971 : "How to write music in no easy lessons : A Self Interview" [1939]
  • "Introduction" to The Rodgers and Hart Song Book [1951]
  • "Jerome Kern : a tribute" [1951]
  • "Pal Joey : history of a 'heel'" [1951]
  • "The right to revive" (or "Revive and let live") [1954]
  • "Cancer? I've had it!" [1957]
  • "Introduction" (with Oscar Hammerstein) to The Rodgers and Hammerstein Song Book [1958]
  • "Hammerstein : words by Rodgers" [1960]
  • "Opera and Broadway" [1961]
  • "Now the musical theater is enshrined" [1964]
  • "A composer looks at his lyricists" [1967]
  • Reminiscences of Richard Rodgers [1969] : Pal Joey ; Endings and beginnings ; Words and Music ; Allegro ; South Pacific ; Pipe Dream ; Flower Drum Song ; The Sound of Music ; No Strings ; Do I hear a waltz?
  • "The Broadway audience is still there, waiting for more good shows" [1971].

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