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Show Boat is a musical with music by Jerome Kern and book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II.It is based on Edna Ferber's best-selling 1926 novel of the same name.The musical follows the lives of the performers, stagehands and dock workers on the Cotton Blossom, a Mississippi River show boat, over 40 years from 1887 to 1927.Its themes include racial prejudice and tragic, enduring love.
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.
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 ...
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.
8 de feb. de 2024 · Laurie Winer is a longtime theater critic, a founding editor of the Los Angeles Review of Books, and the author of Oscar Hammerstein II and the Invention of the Musical.She might have considered a different title for the latter. For starters, she doesn’t take into account Hammerstein’s early mentor and collaborator, fellow librettist–lyricist Otto Harbach (1873–1963), who, as ...
Hammerstein-Kern. Songwriting collaboration whose great success included their biggest hit, 1927's "Show Boat", which is often revived and is still considered one of the masterpieces of the American musical theatre.
20 de jun. de 2022 · A thousand pages of correspondence by Oscar Hammerstein II, the lyricist for such musicals as Show Boat, Oklahoma!, Carousel and The Sound of Music are available to a wide public for the first time.
