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Jimmie Rodgers
Jimmie Rodgers (James Charles Rodgers), 1897-1933, American singer, guitarist, and songwriter often called "the father of country music," b. Meridian, Miss. The son of a railroad foreman, he left school at 14 and worked various railroad jobs, meanwhile learning the blues from his... Read more |
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Jumbo
Jumbo (1935), a musical comedy by Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur (book), Richard Rodgers (music), Lorenz Hart (lyrics). [Hippodrome, 233 perf.] Two feuding circus magnates, Matthew Mulligan ( W. J. McCarthy) and John A. Considine ( Arthur Sinclair), are dismayed to learn that their children,... Read more |
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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... Read more |
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Allegro
Allegro (1947), a musical play by Oscar Hammerstein (book, lyrics), Richard Rodgers (music). [Majestic Theatre, 315 perf.] Joseph Taylor Jr. ( John Battles) is born in a typical American town in 1905, the son of a general practitioner who is happily married and content with his lot in life. When... Read more |
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Adam Guettel
Guettel, Adam Composer Adam Guettel is considered "the most provocative and promising of post-[Stephen] Sondheim theatrical songwriters," according to Terry Teachout in Time. Although he has written relatively few musicals, he has received widespread critical acclaim for his... Read more |
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Lorenz Milton Hart
Lorenz Milton Hart 1895-1943, American lyricist, b. New York City, studied at Columbia. Hart began collaborating with Richard Rodgers in 1919; their initial success was The Garrick Gaieties (1925). Thereafter, the team of Rodgers and Hart produced such popular musicals as Connecticut Yankee ... Read more |
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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... Read more |
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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 |
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Oklahoma!
Oklahoma! (1943), a musical play by Oscar Hammerstein (book, lyrics), Richard Rodgers (music). [St. James Theatre, 2,212 perf.] When the handsome young cowboy Curly ( Alfred Drake) comes to ask Laurey ( Joan Roberts) to ride with him to a local box social, the pair tease each other then quarrel,... Read more |
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Bryn Terfel
BRYN TERFEL Born: Bryn Terfel Jones; Pantglas, North Wales, 9 November 1965 Genre: Classical Best-selling album since 1990: Something Wonderful: Bryn Terfel Sings Rodgers and Hammerstein (1996) Bryn Terfel brought a superstar status to the bass-baritone voice in the 1990s that is usually... Read more |
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Profile: Life and music of Jimmie Rodgers
...INSKEEP NPR Morning Edition 08-08-2003 Profile: Life and music of Jimmie RodgersHost: STEVE INSKEEPTime: 11...about to hear some of the songs of country music's first superstar. Jimmie Rodgers was a musical ... |
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The songs of Jimmie Rodgers: a Legacy in country music.(Book review)
...Songs of Jimmie Rodgers: A Legacy in Country Music. By Jocelyn R. Neal. (Profiles in Popular Music.) Bloomington...21.95.] Music examples, illustrations...The Songs of Jimmie Rodgers: A ... |
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The Songs of Jimmie Rodgers: A Legacy in Country Music
...Songs of Jimmie Rodgers: A Legacy in Country Music. By Jocelyn R. Neal. (Profiles in Popular Music.) Bloomington...21.95.] Music examples, illustrations...The Songs of Jimmie Rodgers: A ... |
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Getting back to our 'Roots' A PBS documentary takes a look at the history of...
...branches of American music and how they...American Roots Music," which begins...series features profiles of dozens of...country pioneers Jimmie Rodgers and Hank Williams...American roots music is receiving...Williamson come ... |
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Profile: Impact of Kenneth Threadgill and his club, Threadgill's, on the...
...09-21-2003 Profile: Impact of Kenneth...on the Austin music sceneHost: LIANE...known as the live music capital of the...launch the Austin music scene. Joe Bevilacqua...he first heard Jimmie Rodgers yodel. ... |
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Profile: The Bristol sessions
...00-00-0000 Profile: The Bristol...serious country music fans and their...greats of country music made his first recordings, Jimmie Rodgers, but it wasn...bang of country music. DAVID C. BARNETT...Jeanette Carter still ... |
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Lonely explorers of isolated lives
...Dawidoff (Vintage, $14). Dawidoff profiles a number of country music's all stars, including Jimmie Rodgers, Chet Atkins, Patsy Cline, Earl Scruggs...Johnny Cash and more. Richard Feynman: My Life in Science, by John Gribbin and Mary... |
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Exploring Roots Music: Twenty Years of the JEMF Quarterly.(Book Review)
...dedicated his short life to collecting...American country music and its artists...about country music. For those unfamiliar...American Folk Music and Musicians...biographies of Jimmie Rodgers and John Lomax...superb artist ... |
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Profile: Musical career of the late John Jackson
...00-00-0000 Profile: Musical career...Soundbite of music) Mr. JOHN JACKSON...Jackson's music reflected all...Soundbite of music) BROWN: Jackson...and-tumble life of his native...He did some Jimmie Rodgers ... |
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Profile: Johnny Cash's 1956 hit "I Walk the Line"
...00-00-0000 Profile: Johnny Cash...American country music. That's the...wave of young music fans discovers...younger musicians' lives. "I Walk the...thought about what music before could...s music or Jimmie ... |
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