Richard Rodgers Reader.
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Richard Rodgers Reader.
Yazar:
Block, Geoffrey.
ISBN:
9780198031932
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Fiziksel Tanımlama:
1 online resource (369 pages)
Seri:
Readers on American Musicians
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Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- part I. Rodgers and Hart, 1919-1943 -- The Age of Rodgers and Hart -- "My Heart Stood Still" -- GERALD MAST -- RICHARD RODGERS -- PHILIP FURIA -- ALEC WILDER -- ALLEN FORTE -- From Letters to Dorothy, 1926-1937 and A Personal Book -- Chee-Chee, The Castration Musical -- Cover Story: "The Boys from Columbia" -- "Words and Music: Rodgers and Hart" -- Pal Joey: Drawing "Sweet Water from a Foul Well" -- "Not a Few of His Songs Were Left on the Cutting Room Floor" -- Remembering Rodgers and Hart -- part II. Rodgers and Hammerstein, 1943-1960 -- "As Corny as Kansas in August, As Restless as a Willow in a Windstorm" -- "The Work That Changed the Form" -- The Theatre Guild Presents Oklahoma! and Carousel -- "R. and H." -- "What Is a Richard Rodgers?" -- "There's Hope for Everyone" -- The Art of Adaptation -- Rethinking Pal Joey -- "The American Musical" -- "The Musical Stage" -- "Moving in the Direction of Opera" -- A Few Favorite Things about Rodgers with Hammerstein -- "The Nicest Guys in Show Business" -- "Introduction" to Richard Rodgers -- part III. Rodgers after Hammerstein, 1960-1979 -- "You Can't Force It" -- "Rodgers Without Hammerstein" -- "Richard Rodgers Is Calling" -- "The Less Said, the Better" -- "The Plot Against Musicals" -- The Perils of Producing Rex -- Anatomy of a Flop: Pipe Dream, Do I Hear a Waltz?, Rex, and I Remember Mama -- "Overture" to Richard Rodgers -- "Introduction" to Musical Stages -- part IV. 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] -- Credits -- Index of Rodgers's Works -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- General Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Özet:
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 the musicals he wrote with his second collaborator, Oscar Hammerstein--Oklahoma!, Carousel, South Pacific, The King and I, and The Sound of Music--continue to enchant and entertain audiences. Arranged in four sections, Rodgers and Hart (1929-1943), Rodgers and Hammerstein (1943-1960), Rodgers After Hammerstein (1960-1979), and The Composer Speaks (1939-1971), The Richard Rodgers Reader offers a cornucopia of informative, perceptive, and stylish biographical and critical overviews. It also contains a selection of Rodgers's letters to his wife Dorothy in the 1920s, the 1938 Time magazine cover story and New Yorker profiles in 1938 and 1961, and essays and reviews by such noted critics as Brooks Atkinson, Eric Bentley, Leonard Bernstein, Lehman Engel, Walter Kerr, Ken Mandelbaum, Ethan Mordden, George Jean Nathan, and Alec Wilder. The volume features personal accounts by Richard Adler, Agnes de Mille, Joshua Logan, Mary Martin, and Diahann Carroll. The collection concludes with complete selections from more than thirty years of Rodgers's own writings on topics ranging from the creative process, the state of the Broadway theater, even Rodgers's bout with cancer, and a generous sample from the candid and previously unpublished Columbia University interviews. For anyone wishing to explore more fully the life and work of a composer whose songs and musicals have assumed a permanent--and prominent--place in American popular culture, The Richard Rodgers Reader will offer endless delights.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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