In 1919, Hammerstein wrote his own play, called The Light, and his uncle produced it. Despite the play's relative failure, Hammerstein forged ahead with his writing. In 1920, he collaborated with a Columbia undergraduate named Richard Rodgers in writing a Varsity Show called Fly with Me. Not long after, Hammerstein dropped out of grad school at Columbia to concentrate his efforts entirely on musical theater.
Lorenz Hart was 7 years older than Richard Rodgers, who was only 16 when they began their musical collaboration, with Rodgers acting as the composer and Hart as the lyricist. Manhattan was their 1925 breakthrough hit, and scores of other songs yielded many of today's standards, including Blue Moon, My Funny Valentine, Isn't It Romantic? and Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered. Together, Rodgers and Hart wrote the music and
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After a year at Columbia Law School, he went on to fame as a librettist for operettas

composed by Rudolph Firml, Sigmund Romberg, and George Gershwin. Oscar Hammerstein had a successful career before beginning his partnership with Rodgers. He collaborated with Jerome Kern on eight musicals, most notably Show Boat, and wrote the book and lyrics for Carmen Jones, which was the 1943 all-black version of Georges Bizet’s opera Carmen.
After Hammerstein's death in 1960, Rodgers wrote the music and lyrics for No Strings, for which he earned two Tony awards. He then composed the music for Do I Hear A Waltz?, Two by Two, Rex, and I Remember Mama. Rodgers's centenary in 2002 was celebrated around the world with books, performances, new recordings of his music, and a Broadway revival of Oklahoma! Rodgers left behind a legacy of more than 900 published songs, forty musicals, and numerous works for film and television.
While still in his professional prime, Oscar Hammerstein II lost his battle
Antonio Vivaldi composed aforementioned “The Four Seasons” a four part musical series from 1717 to 1721, as well as his two most well known operas Argippo and Bajazet.
Porter reintroduced himself in 1928 with the musical Paris. This musical contained what is considered to be one of his best list songs, “Let’s Do It (Let’s Fall In Love”. For the next few years, Porter was constantly writing for huge shows and revues and was finally regaining his credibility as a writer. His peak of this time would come in 1934 with the timeless musical Anything Goes. Anything Goes is considered by many to be the greatest score of this period (and many people would say it is Porter’s greatest ever as well). The original Off-Broadway incarceration would go on to be revived several times on Broadway, winning many awards in the process.
“Clifton Williams musician, composer and prolific composers of serious contemporary music for the wind band.” He has created some of the biggest standards in the American, Canadian, European, and Japanese Band repertoire.
The original songs in the musical include Magic to Do, Corner of the Sky, Welcome Home, War is a Science, Glory, Simple Joys, No Time at All, With You, Spread a Little Sunshine, Morning Glow, On the Right Track, And There He Was, Kind of Woman, Extraordinary, Prayer for a Duck, Love Song, I Guess I’ll Miss the Man, and Finale. These are the songs Schwartz designed to be catchy, different, and exciting.
Oklahoma! The first collaboration of Rodgers and Hammerstein was entitled Oklahoma! The idea of the musical came from a play called Green Grow the Lilacs, written by Lynn Riggs in 1931. This story is about the state of Oklahoma at the turn of the century, when the Indian Territory joined the United States. It is the story of a girl named Laurey Williams and her (sort of) love triangle with two boys by the names of Curley McClain and Jud Fry. Laurey is in love with Curley, but she attends a dance with Jud instead. At the dance, Curley surprised Laurey by bidding an enormous amount on the basket of food she has prepared. They soon marry, and after the wedding, Jud starts a fight with Curley, but he
Fans of musical theatre all around the world most likely know who Stephen Sondheim is. He has written a myriad of musicals, such as “West Side Story”, “Into the Woods”, and “Sweeney Todd”, and these are only his most famous ones. Maybe you know some of them, even if you do not avidly follow theatre.
Billy Joel is one of the best selling solo artists of all time in the United States. Amongst his most popular songs are “Piano Man,” “We Didn’t Start the Fire” and “She’s Always a Woman,” all with good reason. Having written a plethora of memorable songs that could easily be added to the soundtrack of our lives, Billy Joel’s undoubtedly one of the most talented musicians and songwriters of all time.
It was his first published fiction and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1948 (Krebs). “Although it later became a classic Broadway musical by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein and a successful film, it was not a best seller at first”
Career: Keyboard Player Hollywood Director Barry Levinson looked for someone to orchestrate his movie, Rain Man. Barry asked a man named Hans Zimmer to help make the movie with him. Hans also composed music for the Lion King and wrote music for many movies after that. Hans is still living today.
Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture was the first piece of music performed by the McGill Symphony Orchestra. The work premiered on the16th of March 1870, but was only finalized 10 years late on the 10th of September 1880 (Elliott). Tchaikovsky was a romantic composer and wrote his Fantasy Overture as a symphonic poem in sonata form in the romantic era.
By 1935, Gershwin had successfully written several serious compositions, but it was during this year in particular that his most famous opera, Porgy and Bess, was performed. This opera received mixed reviews and led Gershwin to pursue an interest for films. Gershwin moved to California and wrote several film scores.
Two great writers of American musical theatre, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, had one idea in common. They wanted to present to the American public a new and revolutionary musical that would stand out above the rest. They wanted to make an impact on the societies of the era. They wanted to be creative and do something that was considered rebellious. When they finally combined their ideas together they created an American masterpiece in musical theatre: Oklahoma!. It was the first Rodgers and Hammerstein collaboration, starting the most successful creative partnership in the history of American musical theatre.
A Big Apple native born October 30, 1959, LaGravense grew up in Brooklyn and studied acting at New York University’s experimental theater department at the Tisch School of Arts. As a student, he explored his skills with dialogue and formed a New York based comedy group, for which he also wrote sketches. His sketch material led to an offer by former Saturday Night Live writer Neil Levy, to co-write the script for the 1989 release, Rude Awakening. He wrote (and sold) his first piece of writing for the off Broadway musical revue, My Name is Alice directed by Joan Michlin Silver. Mr. LaGravenese began his solo screenwriting career with his original screenplay The Fisher King, directed by Terry Gilliam. The film went on to earn five Academy Award nominations, including Best Screenplay, winning Best Supporting Actress for Mercedes Ruehl.
published more than 250 works. Johann Jr. went on to write more than 500 musical
In 1831, Wagner attended Leipzig University, where he performed in his first symphony in 1833. Beethoven was his inspiration, in particular, his Ninth Symphony. In 1834, he becamse a chorus master at the Würzburg Theater and where he wrote text and music of his first opera, Die Feen (The Fairies).