The Richard Rodgers reader / edited by Geoffrey Block.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Block, Geoffrey Holden, editor.

Series:

Readers on American musicians.

Oxford scholarship online.

Readers on American musicians

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rodgers, Richard, 1902-1979--Criticism and interpretation.

Rodgers, Richard.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (369 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Arranged in four sections, this collection offers informative, biographical and critical overviews. It also contains a selection of Rodgers's letters to his wife Dorothy, and concludes with selections from his writings on creative process, the state of the Broadway theater, his bout with cancer, and his Columbia University interviews.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; part I. Rodgers and Hart, 1919-1943; part II. Rodgers and Hammerstein, 1943-1960; part III. Rodgers after Hammerstein, 1960-1979; part IV. The Composer Speaks, 1939-1971; Credits; Index of Rodgers's Works; General Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Previously issued in print: 2002.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-772893-6

1-280-83483-8

0-19-803193-9

OCLC:

476257736