"Jerome Kern had written ""Ol' Man River."" ""Indeed not,"" she retorted. ""Jerome Kern wrote 'dum, dum, dum-dum.' My husband wrote 'Ol' Man River'."" Other Kern-Hammerstein musicals include ""Sweet Adeline"", ""Music in the Air"", ""Three Sisters"", and ""Very Warm for May"". Hammerstein also collaborated with Vincent Youmans (""Wildflower""), Rudolf Friml (""Rose-Marie""), and Sigmund Romberg (""The Desert Song"" and ""The New Moon""). Hammerstein's most successful and sustained collaboration began when he teamed up with Richard Rodgers to write a musical adaptation of the play ""Green Grow the Lilacs"". Rodgers' first partner, Lorenz Hart, originally planned to collaborate with Rodgers on this piece,"
"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"
"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"
"Oscar Hammerstein II Oscar Greeley Clendenning Hammerstein II (; July 12, 1895 – August 23, 1960) was an American librettist, theatrical producer, and (usually uncredited) theatre director of musicals for almost forty years. Hammerstein won eight Tony Awards and two Academy Awards for Best Original Song. Many of his songs are standard repertoire for vocalists and jazz musicians. He co-wrote 850 songs. Hammerstein was the lyricist and playwright in his partnerships; his collaborators wrote the music. Hammerstein collaborated with numerous composers, such as Jerome Kern, with whom he wrote ""Show Boat"", Vincent Youmans, Rudolf Friml, Richard A. Whiting and Sigmund"
"Rodgers and Hammerstein Rodgers and Hammerstein refers to composer Richard Rodgers (1902–1979) and lyricist-dramatist Oscar Hammerstein II (1895–1960), who together were an influential, innovative and successful American musical theatre writing team. They created a string of popular Broadway musicals in the 1940s and 1950s, initiating what is considered the ""golden age"" of musical theatre. Five of their Broadway shows, ""Oklahoma!"", ""Carousel"", ""South Pacific"", ""The King and I"" and ""The Sound of Music"", were outstanding successes, as was the television broadcast of ""Cinderella"" (1957). Of the other four that the team produced on Broadway during their lifetimes, ""Flower Drum Song"" was"
"she married Henry Munroe Rogers, a lawyer living in Boston. Moving to Boston, Rogers had many artistic friends, such as Amy Beach, Margaret Ruthven Lang, George Chadwick, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Amy Lowell, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Longfellow wrote the poem “Stay at Home, My Heart, and Rest” especially for Rogers. She held weekly musicales at her home and helped to promote the careers of her artistic friends. After her marriage, Rogers took up teaching and composing, which she said was “a supreme delight – amounting at times almost to intoxication!” By the early 1880s, she had begun publishing some"
"including: Otto Harbach Otto Abels Harbach, born Otto Abels Hauerbach (August 18, 1873 – January 24, 1963) was an American lyricist and librettist of about 50 musical comedies. He was Oscar Hammerstein II's mentor and believed that librettists should integrate songs into the plot. He is considered one of the first great lyricists, and helped raise the status of the lyricist in an age concerned more with music, costumes, and stars. Some of his more famous lyrics are for ""Smoke Gets in Your Eyes"", ""Indian Love Call"" and ""Cuddle up a Little Closer, Lovey Mine"". Harbach was born in Salt"
"Samuel Rogers Samuel Rogers (30 July 1763 – 18 December 1855) was an English poet, during his lifetime one of the most celebrated, although his fame has long since been eclipsed by his Romantic colleagues and friends Wordsworth, Coleridge and Byron. His recollections of these and other friends such as Charles James Fox are key sources for information about London artistic and literary life, with which he was intimate, and which he used his wealth to support. He made his money as a banker and was also a discriminating art collector. Rogers was born at Newington Green, then a village"
"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"
"the Aldine edition (1857) of his ""Poetical Works"", and the ""Journals of Byron and of Moore"". Samuel Rogers Samuel Rogers (30 July 1763 – 18 December 1855) was an English poet, during his lifetime one of the most celebrated, although his fame has long since been eclipsed by his Romantic colleagues and friends Wordsworth, Coleridge and Byron. His recollections of these and other friends such as Charles James Fox are key sources for information about London artistic and literary life, with which he was intimate, and which he used his wealth to support. He made his money as a banker"
"friction between him and Rodgers and led to a breakup of their partnership in 1943 before his death. Rodgers then began collaborating with Oscar Hammerstein II. Devastated by the death of his mother seven months earlier, Hart died in New York City of pneumonia from exposure on November 22, 1943, after drinking heavily. His remains are buried in Mount Zion Cemetery in Queens County, New York. The circumstances of his life were heavily edited and romanticized for the 1948 MGM biopic ""Words and Music"". Lorenz Hart Lorenz Milton Hart (May 2, 1895 – November 22, 1943) was the lyricist half"
"Otto Harbach Otto Abels Harbach, born Otto Abels Hauerbach (August 18, 1873 – January 24, 1963) was an American lyricist and librettist of about 50 musical comedies. He was Oscar Hammerstein II's mentor and believed that librettists should integrate songs into the plot. He is considered one of the first great lyricists, and helped raise the status of the lyricist in an age concerned more with music, costumes, and stars. Some of his more famous lyrics are for ""Smoke Gets in Your Eyes"", ""Indian Love Call"" and ""Cuddle up a Little Closer, Lovey Mine"". Harbach was born in Salt Lake"
"other artists. He composed ""Lady"" for Kenny Rogers, which hit No. 1 in 1980, and produced Rogers' album ""Share Your Love"" the following year. Richie and Rogers maintained a strong friendship in later years. Latin jazz composer and salsa romantica pioneer La Palabra enjoyed international success with his cover of ""Lady,"" which was played at Latin dance clubs. Also in 1981 Richie sang the theme song for the film ""Endless Love"", a duet with Diana Ross. Issued as a single, the song topped the Canada, Brazil, Australia, Japan, New Zealand and US pop music charts, and became one of Motown's"
"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"
"met Burroughs - at first mistaking him for a butler being dressed in dark suit and tie. His manuscript of ""Kaleidoscope"" is at Indiana University. He lived his final years as a recluse in Nottingham. Andrews left a major work Hometown (The Denver Poem), 57 pages long, which has not been published. He worked on this for the last twenty years of his life. Lyman Andrews Lyman Henry Andrews (April 2, 1938 - February 13, 2009) was an American poet, and close friend of Allen Ginsberg and Robert Lowell amongst other writers with whom he maintained a lifelong contact. He"
"Lyman Andrews Lyman Henry Andrews (April 2, 1938 - February 13, 2009) was an American poet, and close friend of Allen Ginsberg and Robert Lowell amongst other writers with whom he maintained a lifelong contact. He also knew William S. Burroughs, in Tangiers and London. Lyman Andrews died on Friday 13 February 2009 at his apartment in Nottingham. He was born on April 2, 1938 in Denver, did his undergraduate studies at Brandeis University, where he studied with Philip Rahv, Claude Vigée and Pierre Emmanuel. He did graduate study at the University of California Berkeley and King's College London. He"
"Oscar Hammerstein Award The Oscar Hammerstein Award for Lifetime Achievement in Musical Theatre is named in honor of American lyricist and librettist Oscar Hammerstein, who helped shape American theater music through his collaborations with a number of different composers and writers. The award was created in 1988 by Janet Hayes Walker, the Founding Artistic Director of The York Theatre Company, and is presented with the endorsement of the Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization and the Hammerstein family. The Oscar Hammerstein Award Gala is the major annual fundraising event of The York, a mainstay of the Off-Broadway scene for more than 45"
"found ill in a hotel room and taken to the hospital, but died within a few days. After Hart's death, Rodgers continued his collaboration with Oscar Hammerstein II. Theirs was a long and successful collaboration, one which made them one of the most successful composing teams of the 20th century. According to Thomas Hischak, Hart ""had a remarkable talent for polysyllabic and internal rhymes"", and his lyrics have often been praised for their wit and technical sophistication. According to Stephen Holden, a writer in ""The New York Times"", ""Many of Hart's ballad lyrics conveyed a heart-stopping sadness that reflected his"
"than six weeks before full operations were scheduled to begin on his Virginian Railway. After a funeral at the First Unitarian Church in Manhattan, his body was transported to Fairhaven by a New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad train. He was interred beside Abbie in Fairhaven's Riverside Cemetery. In 1893, a mutual friend introduced Rogers to humorist Mark Twain. Rogers reorganized Twain's tangled finances, and the two became close friends for the rest of Rogers' life. By the 1890s, Twain's fortunes began to decline; in his later life, Twain suffered from depression. He lost three of his four children,"
"Small Hotel"", ""Where or When"", ""My Funny Valentine"", ""The Lady Is a Tramp"", ""Falling in Love with Love"", ""Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered"", and ""Wait till You See Her"". In 1939, he wrote the ballet ""Ghost Town"" for the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, with choreography by Marc Platoff. Rodgers' partnership with Hart began having problems because of the lyricist's unreliability and declining health. Rodgers began working with Oscar Hammerstein II, with whom he had previously written songs (before ever working with Lorenz Hart). Their first musical, the groundbreaking hit ""Oklahoma!"" (1943), marked the beginning of the most successful partnership in"
"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"
"Freire. The third cycle is marked by social poetry, especially the abolitionist movement, and it includes Castro Alves, Tobias Barreto and Pedro Luís Pereira de Sousa. In the United States, at least by 1818 with William Cullen Bryant's ""To a Waterfowl"", Romantic poetry was being published. American Romantic Gothic literature made an early appearance with Washington Irving's ""The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"" (1820) and ""Rip Van Winkle"" (1819), followed from 1823 onwards by the ""Leatherstocking Tales"" of James Fenimore Cooper, with their emphasis on heroic simplicity and their fervent landscape descriptions of an already-exotic mythicized frontier peopled by ""noble savages"","
"Nigel Rogers Nigel David Rogers (born 21 March 1935) is an English multilingual tenor, music conductor, singing teacher and vocal coach, who has sung in over seventy classical music album recordings in German, French, Italian, Latin and English, mostly of early music, baroque and sacred music, including works by Claudio Monteverdi, Handel, Purcell, and Bach. Singing critics like Melanie Eskenazi describe him as a vocal virtuoso of the local phrasing and decoration (ornamenti) of those particular musical periods exactly as they were practised back then. He is considered a world authority in the field of European early music, the scores"
"romance with ambitious fisherman Enoch Snow. The show includes the well-known songs ""If I Loved You"", ""June Is Bustin' Out All Over"" and ""You'll Never Walk Alone"". Richard Rodgers later wrote that ""Carousel"" was his favorite of all his musicals. Following the spectacular success of the first Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, ""Oklahoma!"" (1943), the pair sought to collaborate on another piece, knowing that any resulting work would be compared with ""Oklahoma!"", most likely unfavorably. They were initially reluctant to seek the rights to ""Liliom""; Molnár had refused permission for the work to be adapted in the past, and the original"
"also is a successful jeweler. Roger's brother, Ted Nichols, was also a noted composer who briefly served as musical director for the Hanna-Barbera cartoon studio. Roger Nichols (songwriter) Roger Nichols is an American composer and songwriter. He is a multi-instrumentalist who plays violin, guitar, bass, and piano. Nichols co-wrote many songs with lyricists Paul Williams, Tony Asher, and Bill Lane. Asher and Nichols co-wrote several songs on Nichols' debut album ""Roger Nichols And The Small Circle Of Friends"" (A&M Records, 1968) which was produced by Tommy LiPuma, engineered by Bruce Botnick and featured session contributions from Van Dyke Parks, Randy"
"well, according to ""Billboard Magazine"", who said he ""acquitted himself credibly, as did his orchestra."" The magazine called him capable, saying he could sing, compose, play and lead. Dick Rogers Dick Rogers (1912—1970) was a singer, comedian, songwriter and pianist, who wrote the lyrics for ""Harlem Nocturne"". He was a member of the Ray Noble orchestra and the Will Osborne band. Rogers was associated with Will Osborne, a ""star crooner"" who was on the radio in the 1930s. Osborne's band was on the decline in 1940. Osborne created a ""bus and truck vaudeville show"", with comedy acts, which did not"
"then, we can place Rogers in an aristocratic literary community in the mid-seventeenth century. Christabella Rogers Christabella Rogers (b. 1618? - ?) was a 17th-century English poet and author of an untitled song addressed to Cupid. Records indicate the christening of a “Christobel Rogers” in Shropshire, England in the year 1618. That this Rogers is the poet Rogers is not certain, however. Other than this, very little is known about Rogers. As Alison Shell states in ""Early Modern Women’s Manuscript Writing"": “Christobella Rogers and Alice Fennel [her cousin], remain for the moment as obscure as most early modern women.” Shell"
"of their respective shows. As Oscar Hammerstein II was writing the lyrics, it developed its own inspirational overtones along the lines of an earlier Hammerstein song, ""There's a Hill Beyond a Hill"". He felt that the metaphors of climbing mountains and fording streams better fitted Maria's quest for her spiritual compass. The muse behind the song was Sister Gregory, the head of Drama at Rosary College in Illinois. The letters that she sent to Hammerstein and to Mary Martin, the first Maria von Trapp on Broadway, described the parallels between a nun's choice for a religious life and the choices"
"managed Oscar's Victoria Theatre, and Willie's son Oscar Hammerstein II was one of Broadway's most influential lyricists and bookwriters, as well as a director and producer. Oscar Hammerstein I Oscar Hammerstein I (8 May 18461 August 1919) was a German-born businessman, theater impresario, and composer in New York City. His passion for opera led him to open several opera houses, and he rekindled opera's popularity in America. He was the grandfather of American lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II and the father of theater manager William Hammerstein and American producer Arthur Hammerstein. Oscar Hammerstein I was born in Stettin (capital of the"
"""To Obscurity"" (1760) ""To Oblivion"" (1760) ""Chit-Chat, an imitation of Theocritus"" ""The Capricious Lovers (1764)"" ""The Actor (1760)"" ""The Cit's Country Box"" (1757) ""Spirit of Contradiction"" Robert Lloyd (poet) Robert Lloyd (1733–1764) was an English poet and satirist. Robert Lloyd was educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge, graduating B.A. in 1755 and M.A. in 1758. He was author of the popular poem ""The Actor"" (1760) and the comic opera ""The Capricious Lovers"" (1764), first performed at Drury Lane just a few weeks before his death. He was co-author, with George Colman, of ""Ode to Obscurity"" and ""Ode to"
"six for lyrics or book, and two as producer of the Best Musical (""South Pacific"" and ""The Sound of Music""). Rodgers and Hammerstein began writing together before the era of the Tonys: ""Oklahoma!"" opened in 1943 and ""Carousel"" in 1945, and the Tony Awards were not awarded until 1947. They won a special Pulitzer Prize in 1944 for ""Oklahoma!"" and, with Joshua Logan, the annual Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1950 for ""South Pacific"". The Oscar Hammerstein II Center for Theater Studies at Columbia University was established in 1981 with a $1-million gift from his family. His advice and work"
"Edward Rogers (composer) Edward Rogers is a Los Angeles–based musician and composer for film and television. He has written the music for several television series, including ""Bloodline"" (Netflix), ""Warehouse 13"" (Syfy), ""NYPD Blue"" (ABC), ""Over There"" (FX), and ""Alphas"" (Syfy) as well as numerous films, advertising spots and television movies. In 2014 he co-wrote the score for ""The Bag Man"" starring Robert De Niro, John Cusack and Crispin Glover with composer Tony Morales. He collaborated with Morales again on the first season of ""Bloodline"", released in March 2015. In 2010 he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy for ""Outstanding Original"
"had written or co-written the words for such hits as ""Rose-Marie"" (1924), ""The Desert Song"" (1926), ""The New Moon"" (1927) and ""Show Boat"" (1927). Though less productive in the 1930s, he wrote material for musicals and films, sharing an Oscar for his song with Jerome Kern, ""The Last Time I Saw Paris"", which was included in the 1941 film ""Lady Be Good"". By the early 1940s, Hart had sunk into alcoholism and emotional turmoil, becoming unreliable and prompting Rodgers to approach Hammerstein to ask if he would consider working with him. Hammerstein was eager to do so, and their first"