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and a generous sample from the candid and previously unpublished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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