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Oscar Hammerstein II. Writer: State Fair. Oscar Hammerstein II was an American lyricist, librettist, theatrical producer, and musical theatre director from New York City. He won a total of 8 Tony Awards for his best known works, "South Pacific" (1949), "The King and I" (1951), and "The Sound of Music" (1959). He twice won the Academy Award for Best Original Song, for his songs "The Last Time I ...
Oscar Clendenning Hammerstein II was born into a great theatrical family on July 12, 1895, in New York City. His grandfather, Oscar I, was an opera impressario and showman.
6 de ene. de 2015 · Oscar Greeley Clendenning Hammerstein II was born in New York City, the son of Alice (née Nimmo) and William Hammerstein. His grandfather was German-born theatre impresario Oscar I Hammerstein (1846-1919). His father was from a Jewish family, and his mother was the daughter of Scottish and English parents.
Oscar Hammerstein II. Prolific US-American songwriter who teamed up with different composers from 1923 to 1943; from 1943 until his death in 1960 he formed a duo with Richard Rodgers. Hammerstein was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1970. Born July 12, 1895 in New York, NY; died August 23, 1960 in Doylestown, PA.
Oscar Hammerstein II (1895–1960) Lyricist and Librettist. Columbia College 1916. Law 1916–17. LittD 1954 (hon.) Rodgers and Hammerstein changed the face of American musical theater by integrating the elements of drama, music and dance as never before.
11 de ago. de 2010 · Oscar Hammerstein II, murió en su hogar de Doylestown, Pennsylvania, víctima de un cáncer estomacal, dejando tres hijos William y Alice de su primer matrimonio con Myra Finn, y James de su segunda esposa Dorothy Blanchard Jacobson. El 1 de Septiembre de 1960, se apagaron los letreros luminosos de Broadway a las nueve de la noche, como ...
Based on Edna Ferber’s classic American novel, 1927’s lyrically masterful Show Boat, by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II, is the most-recorded musical of all time. The first show of its kind, Show Boat presented complex characters grappling with timely, realistic themes woven into a substantial plot. Spanning the years from 1880 to 1927, the epic narrative concerns the lives, loves and ...
