Rodgers and Hammerstein
Rodgers and Hammerstein is a name for the " songwriting team ", consisting of the composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II
In the early 1940s Richard Rodgers tried in vain, his first partner Lorenz Hart for the work on the subsequent musical Oklahoma! to care. He sought and found for this project Oscar Hammerstein, he already knew how hard their student days. After Hart had died in 1943, Rodgers was one of his second artistic and business partnership with Hammerstein.
During their collaboration, they created a lot of very successful, style-defining for their time musicals. Their partnership extended over a period of almost twenty years, until the death of Hammerstein's 1960.
Musical Play
Hammerstein Rodgers led with his already with Show Boat (1927 ) continued on that course. He wanted not only to entertain but to create a kind of American folk opera with serious historical material. In this context, it could cause Rodgers to waive elements of jazz (which this taken after Hammerstein's death again, eg in No Strings, 1962). In addition, reps had ( Reprises ) of the musical numbers have a dramaturgical sense and create a musical leitmotifs connection between the musical numbers. Dancing should emerge from the action. For this conscious distance from the conventional musical comedy, the characteristic of this duo genre of the musical play was.
Works
Show Musicals
Filming
Songs ( selection)
- My Favorite Things
- Climb Every Mountain
- You'll Never Walk Alone
- Hello Young Lovers
- Soliloqui
- Shall we dance
- ( The hills are alive with) The Sound of Music
- Surrey with a fringe on top
- Oklahoma