| Description |
xii, 356 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
Readers on American musicians |
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Readers on American musicians.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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]. |
| Subject |
Rodgers, Richard, 1902-1979 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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| Added Author |
Block, Geoffrey Holden, 1948-
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| ISBN |
0195139542 |
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