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Somewhere for Me - A Biography of Richard Rodgers (Paperback)
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Somewhere for Me - A Biography of Richard Rodgers (Paperback)
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(Applause Books). No American composer has been more widely
celebrated, nor so consistently misunderstood as Richard Rodgers.
Although he was one of America's most brilliant and prolific
composers, whose credits include more than 900 published songs, 40
Broadway musicals and numerous films, Rodgers is widely believed to
be the almost stolid opposite of who he really was. Meryle Secrest
shows us for the first time his complex nature and the inspiration
for his art. Looking intensely at Rodger's unparalleled career,
Secrest follows his close and fruitful working relationship with
Lorenz Hart, a collaboration that resulted in more than thirty
musicals but was ultimately undone by Hart's alcoholism. Moving on
to Rodger's second collaborator, Secrest records the triumphs with
the gifted and more stable Oscar Hammerstein, including Carousel,
South Pacific and The King and I, along with many more. Rodgers'
personal life is explored, as well. Secrest writes about the
composer's childhood, and how, from an early age, he used music to
escape. And she explores Rodgers' own battle with alcohol, as well
as the deep tensions in his 49-year marriage to Dorothy Feiner.
Somewhere for Me is both a vivid portrait of American musical
theatre, and an illuminating examination of one of its greatest
artists.
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