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Oscar Hammerstein
Oscar Hammerstein , 1846-1919, German-American operatic impresario. In 1888 he built the Harlem Opera House, and in 1906 the Manhattan Opera House, where he gave noteworthy productions. He brought many fine singers to the United States, and introduced Louise, Pelléas et Mélisande, an... Read more
Oscar Hammerstein, 2d
Oscar Hammerstein, 2d 1895-1960, American lyricist and librettist, b. New York City, grad. Columbia Univ., 1916; grandson of Oscar Hammerstein. His first success was Wildflower (1923), with music by Vincent Youmans. Thereafter, he collaborated with Rudolf Friml on Rose Marie (1924); with Jerome... Read more
John McCormack
John McCormack 1884-1945, Irish-American tenor, b. Athlone, Ireland. He made his debut in London in 1907. In 1909, Oscar Hammerstein brought him to the United States. After his debut in New York City he sang with the Boston and Chicago opera companies but after 1914 sang principally in concert and ... Read more
Richard Charles Rodgers
Richard Charles Rodgers 1902-79, American composer, b. New York City. Rodgers studied at Columbia and the Institute of Musical Art, New York City. He met both of his future collaborators, Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein 2d, while at Columbia. Rodgers wrote his first song at 14 and had his fir... Read more
Jerome Kern
Jerome Kern , 1885-1945, American composer of musicals, b. New York City. After studying in New Jersey and New York he studied composition in Germany and England. His first success was the operetta The Red Petticoat (1912). Among the numerous musicals that followed were Leave It to Jane (1917), ... Read more
James Albert Michener
James Albert Michener , 1907-97, American author, b. New York City, grad. Swarthmore, 1929. His short-story collection Tales of the South Pacific (1947; Pulitzer) was adapted into the successful Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific (1948). His more than 40 novels, many best sellers and ... Read more
Stephen Joshua Sondheim
Stephen Joshua Sondheim 1930-, American composer and lyricist, b. New York City. As a young man, he studied lyric writing with Oscar Hammerstein 2d, and early in his career he wrote lyrics for Leonard Bernstein 's West Side Story (1957) and collaborated with Jule Styne in the writing of Gypsy... Read more
musicals
musicals earlier known as musical comedy, plays that incorporate music, song, and dance. These elements move with the plot, heightening and commenting on the action. Mixing the sprightly songs and sketchy plots of operetta with the topical numbers of the revue , musical comedy began in En... Read more

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Hammerstein, Oscar
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography Oscar Hammerstein Born: July 12, 1895 New York, New...Pennsylvania American songwriter Oscar Hammerstein was perhaps the most influential lyricist...of the American theater. It was Hammerstein who reversed the process of musical...
Oscar Clendenning Hammerstein II
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Oscar Clendenning Hammerstein II Oscar Clendenning Hammerstein II (1895-1960) was perhaps the most influential...and I, and The Sound of Music. Oscar Clendenning Hammerstein II was born into a great theatrical family on July...
Hammerstein, Oscar (Greeley Clendenning), II
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre Hammerstein, Oscar [Greeley Clendenning], II (1895–...librettist and lyricist. The grandson of the first Oscar Hammerstein and the nephew of Arthur Hammerstein , he was educated at Columbia, where he wrote lyrics for...
Oscar Hammerstein, 2d
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Oscar Hammerstein, 2d 1895-1960, American lyricist...Columbia Univ., 1916; grandson of Oscar Hammerstein. His first success was Wildflower...musical, dramatic, and dance elements. Hammerstein wrote the lyrics to many famous songs...
Hammerstein, Oscar II
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre Hammerstein, Oscar II (1895–1960...and grandson of the impresario Oscar Hammerstein (1847–1919), who built...1927; London, 1928), for which Hammerstein wrote all the book and lyrics. His...
Hammerstein, Arthur
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre Hammerstein, Arthur (1872–1955), producer. The son of the first Oscar Hammerstein , he began his theatrical career as his...Adeline (1929). In 1927 he built the Hammerstein Theatre, which he lost shortly thereafter...
Hammerstein II, Oscar
Book article from: World Encyclopedia Hammerstein II, Oscar (1895–1960) US lyricist and librettist. He collaborated with Jerome Kern on Show Boat (1927) and with...
Oscar Hammerstein
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Oscar Hammerstein , 1846-1919, German-American operatic impresario. In 1888 he built the Harlem Opera House, and in 1906 the Manhattan Opera...
Richard Charles Rodgers
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...lyricists, Hart and, later, Oscar Hammerstein II, were to repeat this sort of innovation...control of the medium. Collaboration with Hammerstein After Hart died in 1943, Rodgers entered...unprecedented success with lyricist Hammerstein. Of their 10 musicals, 5 were among...
Harbach, Otto
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre ...young protégé Oscar Hammerstein , Vincent Youmans , and Herbert Stothart...Wildflower , then in 1924 worked with Hammerstein, Stothart, and Friml to create the...year he worked with Jerome Kern and Hammerstein on Sunny and with Hammerstein, Stothart...

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Hammerstein, Oscar (II)
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music Hammerstein, Oscar (II) ( b NY, 1895; d Doylestown, Penn., 1960). Amer. librettist and producer, grandson of above. Wrote mus...
Hammerstein, Oscar (I)
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music Hammerstein, Oscar (I) ( b Stettin, 1846; d NY, 1919). Ger.-Amer. impresario and businessman. Settled in NY 1863, making fortune...
Terfel, Bryn
Dictionary entry from: Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Popular Musicians Since 1990 ...Bryn Terfel Sings Rodgers and Hammerstein (1996) Bryn Terfel brought a superstar...successful collection of Rodgers and Hammerstein songs called Something Wonderful: Bryn Terfel Sings Rodgers and Hammerstein (1996). That was followed by...
Sondheim, Stephen
Dictionary entry from: Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Popular Musicians Since 1990 ...and lyricists of the past such as Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II. Beyond the complexity and richness of his music, Sondheim...had fallen under the creative influence of his new neighbor Hammerstein, then working on a show, Oklahoma! (1943), that proved...
Peters, Bernadette
Dictionary entry from: Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Popular Musicians Since 1990 ...McBeal before recording Bernadette Peters Loves Rodgers and Hammerstein (2002). Although she is more closely associated with the...Angel Classics, 1997); Bernadette Peters Loves Rodgers and Hammerstein (Angel Classics, 2002
Sinatra, Frank
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...The Films of John Frankenheimer (Emery) (as himself); Sinatra: 80 Years My Way (as himself) 1996 Rodgers & Hammerstein: The Sound of Movies (Burns—for TV) (archive footage) Films as Actor and Producer: 1956 Johnny Concho...
Patinkin, Mandy
Dictionary entry from: Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Popular Musicians Since 1990 ...interpreter of Stephen Sondheim's music and he exhibits that talent on Oscar & Steve. His exuberant stylings of Oscar Hammerstein's songs comprise the rest of the album. The Yiddish-language Mamaloshen (1998) marked a return to Patinkin's flamboyant...
musical comedy
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music ...the death-knell of this genteel kind of affair was sounded by the record-breaking Oklahoma ! (1943) of Rodgers and Hammerstein, first of an amazing series of shows from this duo: Carousel (1945), South Pacific (1949), The King and I (1951...
Oklahoma!
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music Oklahoma! Amer. musical with mus. by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II based on Green Grow the Lilacs by Lynn Riggs. Generally held to have pioneered new type of musical show. Prod. NY 1943...
Mamoulian, Rouben
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...active in the theater. His most famous stage successes were the highly innovative productions of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II's musicals Oklahoma! and Carousel in the mid-1940s. Mamoulian's first film, Applause, is a poignant story of...

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The Hammerstein Family.(The City)
Newspaper article from: The New York Observer (New York, NY); 12/18/2006; 700+ words ; ...In my generation, no one knows Hammerstein-maybe I'll get, 'Are you...the ballroom?'" said Simon Hammerstein as he sat in his soon-to-be...great-great-grandson.'" The Hammerstein Ballroom is actually named for...
The Complete Lyrics of Oscar Hammerstein II BOOKS
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 12/29/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...2008 The Complete Lyrics of Oscar Hammerstein II BOOKS Byline: John Steele Gordon...FEATURES The Complete Lyrics of Oscar Hammerstein II Edited by Amy Asch Illustrated...thing you would expect from Rodgers and Hammerstein is a song so brazenly sexually suggestive...
Jamie Hammerstein
Transcript from: Fresh Air (NPR); 1/15/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...BARBARA BOGAEV, HOST: Jamie Hammerstein, a producer and frequent director...musicals of his father, Oscar Hammerstein, died last week at the age of...year career in show business, Hammerstein directed the shows "Damn...
The impresario of smut; At the box, Simon Hammerstein's louche cabaret, a spectacular cocktail of class and crass has started to curdle.
Magazine article from: New York; 12/1/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...like to begin by thanking Mr. Simon Hammerstein for freeing me from sexual slavery...M. on a Wednesday in November, and Hammerstein, the co-owner, co-founder, and...Moments before Yozmit was introduced. Hammerstein had been dissecting the mood of the...
HAMMERSTEIN KIN TO DIRECT AT GLOUCESTER STAGE
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 7/14/2000; ; 700+ words ; The name "Hammerstein" sets minds and mouths humming with...Rodgers, lyricist and librettist Oscar Hammerstein 2d wrote some of the most memorable...century. His son, the late James Hammerstein, directed and produced revivals of...
In Hammerstein's Words, 'Something Wonderful'
Transcript from: NPR Weekend Edition - Saturday; 12/20/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...Edition - Saturday 12-20-2008 In Hammerstein's Words, 'Something Wonderful...Play Audio SCOTT SIMON, host: Oscar Hammerstein II authored such American musical theater...book "The Complete Lyrics of Oscar Hammerstein II" covers the master's career...
Simon Hammerstein Proves to Be a Theatrical Chip Off the Ol' Block.
Newspaper article from: The Jewish Advocate (Boston, MA); 8/10/2000; ; 700+ words ; Byline: Barth, Sheila Simon Hammerstein Proves to Be a Theatrical Chip Off...years old, black-haired Simon Hammerstein is a picture of contrasts. Because of his family name and genes, Hammerstein, (he's the grandson of lyricist...
Beautiful mornings. (a new book tells the life story of two of the greatest librettists in history, Oscar Hammerstein and Alan Jay Lerner)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 4/6/1996; 700+ words ; TWO librettists, Oscar Hammerstein and Alan Jay Lerner, wrote the...hours in theatres and cinemas: Hammerstein's "Oklahoma!", "Carousel...of course, automatically link Hammerstein to Richard Rodgers, and Lerner...
The Music of Rodgers and Hammerstein
Transcript from: NPR Morning Edition; 1/27/1993; 700+ words ; ...composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II collaborated on a musical that would...and was the first of nine Rodgers and Hammerstein Broadway shows. There was also a movie...author of a new book called, Rodgers and Hammerstein. He says that from their very first...
William Hammerstein Dies at 82
News Wire article from: AP Online; 3/11/2001; 475 words ; AP Online 03-11-2001 William Hammerstein Dies at 82 WASHINGTON, Conn. (AP) -- William Hammerstein, director, producer and a member of...than a century, has died. He was 82. Hammerstein died at home Friday of complications...