"Many a New Day: Karrin Allyson Sings Rodgers & Hammerstein Many a New Day: Karrin Allyson Sings Rodgers & Hammerstein is an album by Karrin Allyson recorded in tribute to the songwriting partnership of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II. It earned Allyson a Grammy Award nomination for Best Jazz Vocal Album. ""Many a New Day"" peaked at 13 on the ""Billboard"" Jazz album charts. Christopher Loudon reviewed ""Many a New Day"" for the ""Jazz Times"" in October 2015 and wrote, ""At last, the Hammerstein portion of the Rodgers canon is getting serious, full-length appreciation...There's no room on this album"
"Johan Koleberg. On September 2, 2017, it was announced that David Wallin's family related issues had been resolved and that he would be reinstated into the band. Studio albums Metal Hammer Awards (GER) HammerFall HammerFall are a Swedish heavy metal band from Gothenburg, Sweden. The band was formed in 1993 by ex-Ceremonial Oath guitarist Oscar Dronjak. HammerFall was formed when guitarist Oscar Dronjak quit Ceremonial Oath and invited Jesper Strömblad (from In Flames) to join him as a drummer in a new musical project he had been contemplating for some time. Dronjak had already composed the song ""Steel Meets Steel,"""
"the commissary, he met longtime friend, Joe Fields, who mentioned that he was negotiating for the rights to ""The Flower Drum Song"". Intrigued by the title, Hammerstein asked for a copy of the novel, and decided that it had potential as a musical – the lyricist described it as ""sort of a Chinese ""Life with Father"""". Hammerstein consulted with Rodgers, and they agreed to make it their next work, to be written and produced in association with Fields. Hammerstein began work in mid-1958. In July, however, he fell ill and was hospitalized for a month. This forced him to hurry"
"HammerFall HammerFall are a Swedish heavy metal band from Gothenburg, Sweden. The band was formed in 1993 by ex-Ceremonial Oath guitarist Oscar Dronjak. HammerFall was formed when guitarist Oscar Dronjak quit Ceremonial Oath and invited Jesper Strömblad (from In Flames) to join him as a drummer in a new musical project he had been contemplating for some time. Dronjak had already composed the song ""Steel Meets Steel,"" which was later included on HammerFall's debut album. Dronjak and Strömblad were later joined by guitarist Niklas Sundin, bassist Johan Larsson, and vocalist Mikael Stanne. When Niklas Sundin and Johan Larsson left HammerFall"
"Hammerstein's two daughters. They would also sue Hammerstein's third wife, Emma Swift Hammerstein, over money and ownership of the building. Emma Hammerstein would go to court claiming ownership through Hammerstein Opera Company stock, but the stocks were found to be null and void by the judge. The Manhattan Opera House on 34th Street in New York City was renamed the ""Hammerstein Ballroom"" at the Manhattan Center Studios in his honor. Hammerstein had four sons, Abe, Harold, Arthur,Willie and two daughters: Stella and Rose. Arthur continued the family business as an opera and Broadway producer, director, theater owner, and songwriter. Willie"
"Kern and Hammerstein's best-loved songs, ""All the Things You Are"". By the early 1940s, Hart had sunk deeper into alcoholism and emotional turmoil, and he became unreliable, prompting Rodgers to approach Hammerstein to ask if he would consider working with him. Independently of each other, Rodgers and Hammerstein had been attracted to making a musical based on Lynn Riggs' stage play ""Green Grow the Lilacs"". When Jerome Kern declined Hammerstein's offer to work on such a project and Hart refused Rodgers' offer to do the same, Rodgers and Hammerstein began their first collaboration. The result, ""Oklahoma!"" (1943), marked a revolution"
"to depression and alcohol abuse, and was at one time hospitalized. He was also well known as a serial womanizer. Richard Rodgers Richard Charles Rodgers (June 28, 1902 – December 30, 1979) was an American composer of music, with over 900 songs and 43 Broadway musicals, leaving a legacy as one of the most significant composers of 20th century American music. He is best known for his songwriting partnerships with the lyricists Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein II. His compositions have had a significant impact on popular music. Rodgers was the first person to win what are considered the top"
"Hammerstein, from Italian opera to trendy synthesizer-based pop, all of it lavishly arranged for the London Symphony Orchestra with splashy electronic embellishments"". The album featured Murray Head, Tommy Körberg, Elaine Paige, and noted actor Denis Quilley in the role of Molokov. A single from the album, ""One Night in Bangkok"", with verses performed by Murray Head and choruses performed by Anders Glenmark, became a worldwide smash, reaching #3 on the US ""Billboard"" Hot 100. The duet ""I Know Him So Well"" by Elaine Paige and Barbara Dickson held the #1 spot on the UK singles charts for 4 weeks, winning"
"named after Rodgers. ""Forbes"" named Rodgers and Hammerstein second on its list of top-earning dead celebrities in 2009 at $235 million. In 2010, the original film arrangements of the team's music were restored and performed at the Proms concerts in London's Royal Albert Hall by the John Wilson Orchestra. Rodgers and Hammerstein appeared on live telecasts several times. They were guests on the very first broadcast of ""Toast of the Town"", the original name of ""The Ed Sullivan Show"", when it debuted on CBS in June 1948. In 1954, they appeared on a memorable TV musical special, """". They were"
"Kern, with whom Hammerstein enjoyed a highly successful collaboration. In 1927, Kern and Hammerstein had their biggest hit, ""Show Boat"", which is often revived and is still considered one of the masterpieces of the American musical theatre. ""Here we come to a completely new genre — the musical play as distinguished from musical comedy. Now ... the play was the thing, and everything else was subservient to that play. Now ... came complete integration of song, humor and production numbers into a single and inextricable artistic entity."" Many years later, Hammerstein's wife Dorothy bristled when she heard a remark that"
"married Melvina Jacobi. The marriage took place on December 7, 1879 in Montgomery, Alabama. Melvina's parents, Henrietta and Simon Jacobi, were Jews from Bavaria (Ingerheim) who settled in New Orleans, Louisiana and, later, Montgomery, Alabama. Melvina and Oscar had two daughters - Rose and Estella (Stella). Late in his career, Hammerstein experienced numerous legal troubles, most of them in regards to his opera houses. He went through many of them with an air of pride. One of his more infamous accusations was from a Frances Lee, an opera singer, who accused him of preventing her from singing in the Manhattan"
"of Oscar Hammerstein that brought Battles briefly back into the Broadway limelight. He featured among a cast of several stage luminaries assembled to give tribute in song to Hammerstein at the 46th Street Theater on April 8, 1962. Others included Mary Martin, Helen Hayes, Alfred Drake, John Raitt, Elaine Stritch, and Hammerstein's composing partner Richard Rodgers. Battles married Jane Anderson. On January 29, 1948, ""The New York Times"" ran a short item announcing the wedding for the upcoming February 14. Miss Anderson's profession was stated there as short story writer. Miss Anderson was elsewhere noted as a former model and"
"in 1943; it was Rodgers and Hammerstein's first work together and a massive hit. Soon after ""Oklahoma!"" opened, Rodgers began considering the idea of a musical set backstage at a theatre staging a musical. The production could explore different areas of the backstage world. Rodgers also saw it as the opportunity to write a pure musical comedy, without the serious themes which had marked their early works—such as the attacks on racism in ""South Pacific"", and the cultural tolerance in ""The King and I"". Hammerstein was initially unenthusiastic, thinking the subject matter trivial, but Rodgers pressed the matter. It was"
"lived to the age of 102. In the early 1940s, composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II, each a longtime Broadway veteran, joined forces and began their collaboration by writing two musicals that became massive hits, ""Oklahoma!"" (1943) and ""Carousel"" (1945). An innovation for its time in integrating song, dialogue and dance, ""Oklahoma!"" would serve as ""the model for Broadway shows for decades"". In 1999, ""Time"" magazine named ""Carousel"" the best musical of the century, writing that Rodgers and Hammerstein ""set the standards for the 20th century musical"". Their next effort, ""Allegro"" (1947), was a comparative disappointment, running for"
"write this song. They introduced it to Mary Martin one night when they were at Joshua Logan's house fine-tuning the script. Hammerstein wrote this song to express the exuberance of Nellie's character at this point in the show, and it carried over to Mary Martin's performance of it. Mary Martin was so thrilled that when she sang it on stage, she performed cartwheels on the stage at every turn of ""I'm in love."" I'm in Love with a Wonderful Guy ""A Wonderful Guy"" is a show tune from the 1949 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical ""South Pacific."" It was first introduced"
"and Hammerstein, though renowned for such hits as ""Oklahoma!"", ""Carousel"", and ""South Pacific"", suffered a relative failure with the 1953 musical ""Me and Juliet"", a tale of romance among the cast and stagehands backstage at a musical. Before agreeing to do the ""Sweet Thursday"" project, the duo had considered other projects for their next work together, such as an adaptation of the film ""Saratoga Trunk"". A proposal made by attorney David Merrick to adapt a series of works by Marcel Pagnol to which Merrick held the stage rights fell through when the duo were not willing to have Merrick be"
"finish the project. At an early age, Salmi became friends with Antti Hammarberg. They grew up together on the same street, Rinkelinkatu, and while children, their first song together was ""Humalamäki"", a joking song they wrote about their neighbour. Hammarberg later changed his name to Irwin Goodman and became a popular Finnish folk and rock singer. Salmi wrote the lyrics for most of Goodman's compositions and acted as his manager, and their friendship lasted until Goodman's death in 1991. Salmi worked for the Musiikki-Fazer record company in the mid-1960s and became a professional lyrics writer as well as a translator"
"the mystery guests on episode number 298 of ""What's My Line"", which first aired on February 19, 1956; blindfolded panelist Arlene Francis was able to correctly identify them. The pair made a rare feature film appearance in MGM's 1953 production ""Main Street to Broadway"", in which Rodgers played the piano and Hammerstein sang a song they had written. They also appeared in the trailer for the film version of ""South Pacific"" in 1958. While Rodgers and Hammerstein's work contains cheerful and often uplifting songs, they departed from the comic and sentimental tone of early 20th century musicals by seriously addressing"
"band (later rewritten for orchestra), reflecting his impressions of the area, having lived across the river in Barnes for nearly forty years. It begins with a haunting musical depiction of the River Thames flowing underneath Hammersmith Bridge. Holst taught music at St Paul's Girls' School and composed many of his most famous works there, including his ""The Planets"" suite. A music room in the school is named after him. Hammersmith Hammersmith is a district of west London, England, located west-southwest of Charing Cross. It is the administrative centre of the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, and identified in the"
"albums and made five world tours with Malmsteen. After that, he worked with a huge number of artists, including bassist Jonas Hellborg, Benny Jansson, and with his brother Jens (as ""The Johansson Brothers""). He initially joined HammerFall on the ""Legacy"" tour in 1999, at first only as a session drummer but later as a full-time member. He is co-founder of Heptagon Records with his brother, created to promote their discs, their father's and some other Swedish musicians' work. Johansson was a guest drummer on Narnia's album ""The Great Fall"". Johansson is best known for his time in Malmsteen's band, besides"
"Rupert Holmes Rupert Holmes (born David Goldstein on February 24, 1947) is a British-American composer, singer-songwriter, musician, dramatist and author. He is widely known for the hit singles ""Escape (The Piña Colada Song)"" (1979) and ""Him"" (1980). He is also known for his musicals ""Drood"", which earned him two Tony Awards, and ""Curtains"", and for his television series ""Remember WENN"". Holmes was born David Goldstein in Northwich, Cheshire, England. His father, Leonard Eliot Goldstein, was a United States Army warrant officer and bandleader. His mother, Gwendolen Mary (""nee"" Pynn), was English, and both were musical. Holmes has dual British and"
"Hammersmith (band) Hammersmith was a Canadian rock band from Calgary, Alberta, that existed from 1975 to 1977, recording two albums which were released nationally by Mercury Records during that period. The early line-up of the band comprised Doran Beattie (vocals), Dan Lowe (guitar), Jeff Boyne (guitar), Royden Morice (bass guitar), and James Llewellyn (drums); Beaatie, Lowe, Morice and Llewellyn had previously played in Painter. The band signed to Mercury Records, which released their eponymous debut album in 1975. Canadian distribution was through Polydor. Boyne and Llewellyn subsequently left and were replaced by Craig Blair and Dale Buchner. A second album,"
"felt like writing. He embarked on a vacation to Mexico, advising Rodgers that Hammerstein would be a good choice of a new collaborator. This partnership allowed both Rodgers and Hammerstein to follow their preferred writing methods: Hammerstein preferred to write a complete lyric before it was set to music, and Rodgers preferred to set completed lyrics to music. In Rodgers' previous collaborations with Hart, Rodgers had always written the music first, since the unfocused Hart needed something on which to base his lyrics. Hammerstein's previous collaborators included composers Rudolf Friml, Herbert Stothart, Vincent Youmans, and Kern, who all wrote music"
"it was Perry Como made it a huge seller. His recording was sold in over 750,000 copies (78-discs). His recording peaked at the time of the 1953 Billboards top list. Gunnar Hoffsten Gunnar Hoffsten (born ""Nils Gunnar Hoffsten""; 7 December 1923, Stockholm – 11 September 2010) was a Swedish composer, bandleader and jazz musician (trumpet, piano). He was the father of Karin Hoffsten, the singer Louise Hoffsten, the artist Lars Hoffsten, and brother of the actress Rut Hoffsten. In 1946 together with tenor saxophonist Hans Fromholtz, heformed his first own orchestra. Just a year later they were at Nalen in"
"Anders Johansson (drummer) Anders Johansson (born 25 May 1962) is a Swedish drummer, best known as the former drummer of HammerFall and Yngwie Malmsteen's Rising Force. He is the son of jazz pianist Jan Johansson, and brother of Stratovarius keyboardist Jens Johansson. Anders Johansson was born in Gothenburg. The first instrument he played was the piano, but at the age of 14, after a bicycle accident, he switched to drums. From 1979 through 1982 he attended an electronics engineering school. In 1984 he moved to the United States to join his brother Jens in Yngwie Malmsteen's band. He recorded five"
"of the music department at MGM Studios. Robert Armbruster Robert Armbruster (October 9, 1897 – June 20, 1994) was a Philadelphia-born American composer, conductor, pianist and songwriter. His pseudonyms for piano rolls included Henri Bergman, Edwin Gabriel, Robert Romayne, Robert Summers. After studying with Constantin von Sternberg he became a concert pianist, then branched out into conducting and a composing for radio, then television and film. He debuted as a pianist with the Philadelphia Orchestra at the age of eight. In his teenage years, he started recording piano rolls for the Aeolian Company's Duo-Art reproducing pianos and turned out hundreds"
"Show, entitled ""On Your Way"". Throughout the rest of his college career, Hammerstein wrote and performed in several Varsity Shows. After quitting law school to pursue theatre, Hammerstein began his first professional collaboration, with Herbert Stothart, Otto Harbach and Frank Mandel. He began as an apprentice and went on to form a 20-year collaboration with Harbach. Out of this collaboration came his first musical, ""Always You"", for which he wrote the book and lyrics. It opened on Broadway in 1920. In 1921 Hammerstein joined The Lambs club. Throughout the next forty years, Hammerstein teamed with many other composers, including Jerome"
"Oscar Dronjak Oscar Fredrick Dronjak (born January 20, 1972) is a Swedish guitarist and founder of the heavy metal band HammerFall. Prior to the success of HammerFall, he also played and released albums with the death metal acts Ceremonial Oath and Crystal Age. Dronjak was born in the Swedish town of Mölndal to a Serbian father from Belgrade and a Swedish mother. His first instrument was the recorder; he then played trombone for a few years until, at the age of fourteen, he settled on guitar. Soon after, he started his first band, called The Hippie Killers. In 1989 he"
"his presidency at the Guild until 1960. Hammerstein died of stomach cancer on August 23, 1960, at his home Highland Farm in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, at 65, shortly after the opening of ""The Sound of Music"" on Broadway. The final song he wrote was ""Edelweiss"", which was added near the end of the second act during rehearsal. This was not an Austrian folk song but had been written specifically for the musical. After his death, ""The Sound of Music"" was made into the 1965 film adaptation, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture. The lights of Times Square were turned"
"written. In March, Hammerstein approached Rodgers with the idea for a play with two men as the central characters, rather than the usual ""boy and girl"" format. Over the following weeks, the two discussed it, and the concept evolved into a musical about one man, a doctor's son, which appealed to Rodgers, the son and brother of doctors. By September, the general theme for the story had been established: the struggle of the main character to avoid compromising his principles as he progresses in life. Hammerstein had thought of writing a play about a man, from birth to death. However,"
"Steven ""Jesse"" Bernstein Steven Jay ""Jesse"" Bernstein (December 4, 1950 – October 22, 1991) was a Jewish American underground writer and performance artist who is most famous for his recordings with Sub Pop records and close relationship with William S. Burroughs. Bernstein's substance abuse issues and mental illness contributed to his provocative local celebrity, though they ultimately culminated in his suicide. Bernstein was born in Los Angeles, California. His substance abuse issues began as the aftermath of his stay in the Camarillo State Hospital in Camarillo, California as an adolescent. He moved to Seattle, Washington in January 1967, where he"
"his former role as HammerFall's drummer. He has been praised for his technical talent, in metal as well as other genres. Johansson also plays the upright bass (double bass) in a jazz duo together with his brother Jens Johansson. Anders Johansson (drummer) Anders Johansson (born 25 May 1962) is a Swedish drummer, best known as the former drummer of HammerFall and Yngwie Malmsteen's Rising Force. He is the son of jazz pianist Jan Johansson, and brother of Stratovarius keyboardist Jens Johansson. Anders Johansson was born in Gothenburg. The first instrument he played was the piano, but at the age of"
"Rob Epstein Rob Epstein, also credited as Robert P. Epstein, is an American director, producer, writer, and editor. He has won two Academy Awards for Best Documentary Feature, for the films ""The Times of Harvey Milk"" and """". In 1987, Epstein and his filmmaking partner, Jeffrey Friedman, founded Telling Pictures, a production company and team known for ""groundbreaking feature documentaries."" Epstein has transitioned from nonfiction documentaries into scripted narratives, producing such biopics as ""HOWL"", his award-winning film about Allen Ginsberg's controversial poem by the same name (starring James Franco), and ""Lovelace"", the story about the life and trials of pornographic"