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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828876703321

Titolo

The Richard Rodgers reader / / edited by Geoffrey Block

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2002

ISBN

0-19-772893-6

1-280-83483-8

0-19-803193-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (369 p.)

Collana

Readers on American musicians

Altri autori (Persone)

BlockGeoffrey Holden <1948->

Disciplina

782.1/4/092

Soggetti

Musicians - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Previously issued in print: 2002.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; part I. Rodgers and Hart, 1919-1943; part II. Rodgers and Hammerstein, 1943-1960; part III. Rodgers after Hammerstein, 1960-1979; part IV. The Composer Speaks, 1939-1971; Credits; Index of Rodgers's Works; General Index

Sommario/riassunto

Arranged in four sections, this collection offers informative, biographical and critical overviews. It also contains a selection of Rodgers's letters to his wife Dorothy, and concludes with selections from his writings on creative process, the state of the Broadway theater, his bout with cancer, and his Columbia University interviews.