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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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Johnathan Rodgers
Johnathan Rodgers 1946— Television executive Johnathan Rodgers is among the nation's most influential television executives. He served as the highest-ranking black executive at an American television network from 1990 to 1996; then expanded Discovery Network into a multi-billion dollar... Read more |
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John Rodgers (1812-82)
John Rodgers 1812-82, American naval officer, b. Harford co., Md.; son of John Rodgers. He became (1828) a midshipman and saw varied service. He conducted (1852-56) exploring expeditions in the N Pacific, off the coast of China, and in the Arctic. In the Civil War he served on the Atlantic coast,... 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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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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Chic
Chic Funk/disco group For the Record… Selected discography Sources Chic, the New York-based group that rose to the fore of the late 1970s dance scene, created a trade-mark sound driven by Nile Rodgers 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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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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Tim Grobaty: Mahalia, 'Maggot Brain' and Mariachi
...Mariachi!" Jacqueline du Pre's performance of "Elgar: Cello Concerto," Joni Mitchell's "Blue," "The Essential Jimmie Rodgers" and the soundtrack to "My Fair Lady" and 993 other seemingly disparate works. You'll find them in the... |
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1ST COUNTRY MUSIC ACTS RETURN ON CD SERIES.(SHOWTIME)
...when a Mississippi singer named Jimmie Rodgers and a Virginia group of musicians...interest and Victor's releases, Rodgers and the Carters became the first...the entire recorded output of Jimmie Rodgers, essential albums for ... |
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Transforming power relations: Equal status of women and men at the family...
...the scale of the individual and the family to that of the national economy. SPCs Director-General Dr Jimmie Rodgers says it is essential for women to have equal status in the family in order to participate fully in all other sectors of society... |
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Adam Hebert the Essential Adam Hebert Cajun Music Collection Swallow...
...traditional Cajun and country music. At the age of four he was dancing for tips and by the fourth grade was singing Jimmie Rodgers songs for his fellow classmates. After realizing he had a talent to share, Adam built his first fiddle out of an... |
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RECORDS
...less demanding than 1994's heroically austere American Recordings but every bit as essential. From Beck at one end of the chronogical spectrum to Jimmie Rodgers at the other, Cash walks tall through half a century of great American music, confirming... |
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SPIN CONTROL
...artists, "The Songs of Jimmie Rodgers: A Tribute" (Egyptian...Music Hall of Fame, Jimmie Rodgers was a deeply...record. "The Songs of Jimmie Rodgers," due out Tuesday...KOCH records) is an essential ... |
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Getting an Earful Of Today's Music
...Waiting for a Train: Jimmie Rodgers's America," a tribute...good deal less about Rodgers himself than about the...DeMent, John Prine, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Gillian...technological virtuosity so essential to its character produces... |
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Jonathan Yardley
...Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Jimmie Rodgers, Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday...compare, say, Louis Armstrong and Jimmie Rodgers--not least because, improbable...surprise there!--who played an essential role in the origins and development... |
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Willie Nelson at 70.
...hits collection. The Essential Willie Nelson (Columbia...unobtrusive art. The Essential Willie Nelson demonstrates...Lyle Lovett, Joe Ely, Jimmie Dale Gilmore and alt...between Bing Crosby, Jimmie Rodgers and Woody Guthrie... |
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SPC helps Pacific nations reduce climate change risks to food and water.
...Community (SPC) Dr Jimmie Rodgers told a high level Pacific...Sustainable Development. Dr Rodgers added, Building a better...minimise these risks is essential to sound, evidence...food security, told Dr Rodgers told the Conference... |
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