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  • Song of the Week: Tommy Emmanuel – Blue Moon

    To celebrate the rare event of a blue moon on New Year's Eve (which is reality on the last day of 20

  • It's Easy to Remember

    By Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart 1935 Another immortal Rodgers & Hart ballad written for a film tha

  • Television’s Victory at Sea (1952-53)

    NBC-TV's Victory at Sea remains one of the finest documentaries ever made on World War II. Leonard G

  • Thou Swell

    By Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart 1927 A Rodgers What they do to me. Hear me holler I choose a Swee

  • The Ira Awards Part 6

    (If you missed the beginning of this series, please start with The IRA Awards Part 1) Richard Rodger

    • Biography Richard Rodgers

    Richard Rodgers
    Richard Charles Rodgers (June 28 1902 – December 30 1979) was one of the great composers of musical theater, best known for his song writing partnerships with Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein II. He wrote more than 900 published songs, and forty Broadway musicals. Many of his compositions continue to have a broad appeal and have had a significant impact on the development of popular music. He is one of only two individuals to have won an Oscar, Grammy, Emmy, Tony Award, and Pulitzer Prize (the other being Marvin Hamlisch). Life and career Born in Arverne, Queens, New York to a prosperous Jewish family, Richard Rodgers was the son of Dr. Will Rodgers, a prominent physician who had changed the family name from Rojazinsky, and his wife Mamie (née Levy). Richard Rodgers attended the same public school as Bennett Cerf and began playing the piano at age six. Rodgers attended Townsend Harris Hall and DeWitt Clinton High School. In 1919 P

    Discography

    With a Song in My Heart: Greatest Songs of Rodgers & Hart
    With a Song in My Heart: Greatest Songs of Rodgers & Hart


    Carousel (1987 Studio Cast)
    Carousel (1987 Studio Cast)


    With A Song In My Heart: The Rodgers & Hart Songbook
    With A Song In My Heart: The Rodgers & Hart Songbook


    The Sound of Music (1961 London Cast)
    The Sound of Music (1961 London Cast)


    Oklahoma! (Original 1943 Broadway Cast)
    Oklahoma! (Original 1943 Broadway Cast)


    Me And Juliet (1953 Original Broadway Cast)
    Me And Juliet (1953 Original Broadway Cast)


    Videos

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