Richard Rodgers
1st Edition
Published on 1. October 2008
336 pages
978-0-300-12754-6 (ISBN)
Description
Richard Rodgers was an icon of the musical theater, a prolific composer whose career spanned six decades and who wrote more than a thousand songs and forty shows for the American stage. In this absorbing book, Geoffrey Block examines Rodgerss entire career, providing rich details about the creation, staging, and critical reception of some of his most popular musicals.Block traces Rodgerss musical education, early work, and the development of his musical and dramatic language. He focuses on two shows by Rodgers and Hart (A Connecticut Yankee and The Boys from Syracuse) and two by Rodgers and Hammerstein (South Pacific and Cinderella), offering new insights into each one. He concludes with the first serious look at the five neglected and often maligned musicals that Rodgers composed in the 1960s and 1970s, after the death of Hammerstein.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New Haven
United States
Publishing group
De Gruyter
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Digital original
Illustrations
30 b/w + 18 color illus. + 24 musical examples
30 b/w + 18 color illus. + 24 musical examples
ISBN-13
978-0-300-12754-6 (9780300127546)
Schweitzer Classification
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Geoffrey Block
Richard Rodgers
Book
12/2003
Yale University Press
€27.86
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Rodgers, the Workaholic
- Chapter 1. From Apprentice to Musical Dramatist
- Chapter 2. A Tale of Two Connecticut Yankees
- Chapter 3. Hits, Long Runs, and a Musical Comedy of Errors
- Chapter 4. World War II, the Musical: South Pacific
- Chapter 5. Broadway Comes to Television: The Three Cinderellas
- Chapter 6. After Hammerstein
- List of Works by Richard Rodgers
- Notes
- Permissions
- General Index
- Index of Rodgers's Works
