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Rodgers and Hart were an American songwriting partnership between composer Richard Rodgers (1902–1979) and the lyricist Lorenz Hart (1895–1943). They worked together on 28 stage musicals and more than 500 songs from 1919 until Hart's death in 1943. History.
28 de oct. de 2001 · The standard take on Rodgers has long been that he was an austere businessman-artist -- a sober contrast in particular to his notoriously dissolute first partner, Larry Hart, whose own...
21 de mar. de 2013 · It’s Rodgers! It’s Hart!”. It’s Cole Porter from DuBarry Was a Lady —the song, “Well, Did You Evah!”; the singers, Betty Grable and Charles Walters; the year, 1939. When the song was ...
5 de jul. de 2019 · Last week, we celebrated the 117th anniversary of the birth of Richard Rodgers with one of the composer’s piano roll recordings. We discussed the simple, effortless perfection of Rodgers’ melodies and the way his style changed from his work with lyricist Lorenz Hart in the 1920s and 30s to his partnership with Oscar Hammerstein II in the 1940s and 50s.
Rodgers and HartAmerican composer Richard Rodgers (1902-1979) and lyricist/librettist Lorenz Hart (1895-1943) were one of America's most successful composer/lyricist teams in the golden age of American songwriting. Their works for the musical theater produced a cornucopia of lasting songs. From the beginning of a collaboration that began in 1925 and lasted until Lorenz Hart's death in 1943 ...
from Columbia: Rodgers and Hart, 1932–1943. Although the present volume is limited chronologically to the pair’s earlier collaborations, the impressive amount of work rodgers and Hart produced— some nineteen shows over twelve years—still calls for a certain narrowing of focus.
Rodgers later wrote that when he met Larry Hart, quote “I acquired a career, a partner, a best friend—and a source of permanent irritation.”. Hart was by all accounts a difficult man to work ...
