Richard RodgersAuthor :
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Published : Tuesday 26 May 2015
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A lively book that examinesâ?"for the first timeâ?"the full range of music by one of Americaâ?Ts most celebrated composers 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 Rodgersâ?Ts entire career, providing rich details about the creation, staging, and critical reception of some of his most popular musicals. Block traces Rodgersâ?Ts 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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