Richard Rodgers (1902-1979)
Richard
Rodgers’ contributions to the musical theatre of his day were
extraordinary, and his influence on the musical theatre of today and
tomorrow is legendary. His career spanned more than six decades, and
his hits ranged from the silver screens of Hollywood to the bright
lights of Broadway, London and beyond. He was the recipient of
countless awards, including Pulitzers, Tonys, Oscars, Grammys and
Emmys. He wrote more than 900 published songs, and forty Broadway
musicals.COMPOSITIONS Rodgers Links ~ ~ ~ Works by Genre
Fly With Me (1920) (lyrics by Hart)
The Garrick Gaieties (1925–26) (lyrics by Hart)
Dearest Enemy (1925) (lyrics by Hart)
The Girlfriend (1926) (lyrics by Hart)
A Connecticut Yankee (1927) (lyrics by Hart)
Present Arms (1928) (lyrics by Hart)
The Hot Heiress, film score (lyrics by Hart) (1931)
Love me Tonight, film score (lyrics by Hart) (1932)
Phantom President, film score (lyrics by Hart) (1932)
Love Me Tonight (1932) (lyrics by Hart)
Hallelujah, I'm a Bum, film score (lyrics by Hart) (1933)
Hollywood Party, film score (lyrics by Hart) (collab. w/Donaldson and Brown (1934)
Mississippi, film score (lyrics by Hart) (1935)
Jumbo (1935)
On Your Toes (1936) (lyrics by Hart)
Dancing Pirate, film score (lyrics by Hart) (1936)
All Points West, symphonic narrative for voice and orchestra (lyrics by Hart) (orchd A. Deutsch, 1936)
Babes in Arms (1937) (lyrics by Hart)
I'd Rather Be Right (1937) (lyrics by Hart)
I Married an Angel (1938) (lyrics by Hart)
The Boys from Syracuse (1938) (lyrics by Hart)
Fools for Scandal, film score (lyrics by Hart) (1938)
Nursery Ballet, piano (orchd R. Bargy, 1938)
Too Many Girls (1939) (lyrics by Hart)
Ghost Town, an American folk ballet (orchd H. Spialek, 1939)
Higher and Higher (1940) (lyrics by Hart)
Pal Joey (1940–41) (lyrics by Hart)
They Met in Argentina, film score (lyrics by Hart) (1941)
By Jupiter (1942) (lyrics by Hart)
Oklahoma! (1943) (lyrics by Hammerstein)
Carousel (1945) (lyrics by Hammerstein)
State Fair (1945) (lyrics by Hammerstein)
Allegro (1947) (lyrics by Hammerstein)
Words and Music, film score (lyrics by Hart) (orchd C. Salinger, 1948)
South Pacific (1949) (lyrics by Hammerstein)
The King and I (1951) (lyrics by Hammerstein)
Victory at Sea, scores for 26 television episodes (orchd R.R. Bennett, 1952-53)
Me and Juliet (1953) (lyrics by Hammerstein)
Pipe Dream (1955) (lyrics by Hammerstein)
Cinderella, television musical (lyrics by Hammerstein, after C. Perrault) (orchd Bennen, 1957)
Flower Drum Song (1958) (lyrics by Hammerstein)
The Sound of Music (1959) (lyrics by Hammerstein)
Winston Churchill, the Valiant Years, television series/symphonic piece (orchd Dolan, Kay and Sauter, 1960)
No Strings (1962) (lyrics by Rodgers)
Do I Hear a Waltz? (1965) (lyrics by Stephen Sondheim)
Androcles and the Lion, television musical (lyrics by Rodgers, after G.B. Shaw) (1967)
Two by Two (1970) (lyrics by Martin Charnin)
The Lagoon, narrator and orchestra (fp. 1974) [c. 1978?] [on the topic of the southern Pacific]
Rex (1976) (lyrics by Sheldon Harnick)
I Remember Mama (1979) (lyrics by Martin Charnin)
WORKS BY GENRE Rodgers Links ~ top of page ~
Dramatic/Theater
Fly With Me (1920) (lyrics by Hart)
The Garrick Gaieties (1925–26) (lyrics by Hart)
Dearest Enemy (1925) (lyrics by Hart)
The Girlfriend (1926) (lyrics by Hart)
A Connecticut Yankee (1927) (lyrics by Hart)
Present Arms (1928) (lyrics by Hart)
The Hot Heiress, film score (lyrics by Hart) (1931)
Love me Tonight, film score (lyrics by Hart) (1932)
Phantom President, film score (lyrics by Hart) (1932)
Love Me Tonight (1932) (lyrics by Hart)
Hallelujah, I'm a Bum, film score (lyrics by Hart) (1933)
Hollywood Party, film score (lyrics by Hart) (collab. w/Donaldson and Brown (1934)
Mississippi, film score (lyrics by Hart) (1935)
Jumbo (1935)
On Your Toes (1936) (lyrics by Hart)
Dancing Pirate, film score (lyrics by Hart) (1936)
Babes in Arms (1937) (lyrics by Hart)
I'd Rather Be Right (1937) (lyrics by Hart)
I Married an Angel (1938) (lyrics by Hart)
The Boys from Syracuse (1938) (lyrics by Hart)
Fools for Scandal, film score (lyrics by Hart) (1938)
Too Many Girls (1939) (lyrics by Hart)
Higher and Higher (1940) (lyrics by Hart)
Pal Joey (1940–41) (lyrics by Hart)
They Met in Argentina, film score (lyrics by Hart) (1941)
By Jupiter (1942) (lyrics by Hart)
Oklahoma! (1943) (lyrics by Hammerstein)
Carousel (1945) (lyrics by Hammerstein)
State Fair (1945) (lyrics by Hammerstein)
Allegro (1947) (lyrics by Hammerstein)
Words and Music, film score (lyrics by Hart) (orchd C. Salinger, 1948)
South Pacific (1949) (lyrics by Hammerstein)
The King and I (1951) (lyrics by Hammerstein)
Me and Juliet (1953) (lyrics by Hammerstein)
Pipe Dream (1955) (lyrics by Hammerstein)
Cinderella, television musical (lyrics by Hammerstein, after C. Perrault) (orchd Bennen, 1957)
Flower Drum Song (1958) (lyrics by Hammerstein)
The Sound of Music (1959) (lyrics by Hammerstein)
No Strings (1962) (lyrics by Rodgers)
Do I Hear a Waltz? (1965) (lyrics by Stephen Sondheim)
Androcles and the Lion, television musical (lyrics by Rodgers, after G.B. Shaw) (1967)
Two by Two (1970) (lyrics by Martin Charnin)
Rex (1976) (lyrics by Sheldon Harnick)
I Remember Mama (1979) (lyrics by Martin Charnin)
Ballet
Nursery Ballet, piano (orchd R. Bargy, 1938)
Ghost Town, an American folk ballet (orchd H. Spialek, 1939)
Orchestra
All Points West, symphonic narrative for voice and orchestra (lyrics by Hart) (orchd A. Deutsch, 1936)
Victory at Sea, scores for 26 television episodes (orchd R.R. Bennett, 1952-53)
Winston Churchill, the Valiant Years, television series/symphonic piece (orchd Dolan, Kay and Sauter, 1960)
The Lagoon, narrator and orchestra (fp. 1974) [c. 1978?] [on the topic of the southern Pacific]
Film
Victory at Sea, scores for 26 television episodes (orchd R.R. Bennett, 1952-53)
Winston Churchill, the Valiant Years, television series/symphonic piece (orchd Dolan, Kay and Sauter, 1960)
RODGERS LINKS Works by Genre ~ top of page ~
Richard Rodgers: The King of Musicals (Matt Wolf, The Guardian)
Books
Richard Rodgers (William George Hyland, William Hyland, Yale Univ Pr, books.google.com)
Richard Rodgers (Geoffrey Holden Block, Yale Univ Pr, books.google.com)
The Richard Rodgers Reader (Geoffrey Block, Oxford Univ Pr, books.google.com)
Composer website (at The Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization) . . . inquire about Richard Rodgers: here
Rodgers @ Wikipedia
Rodgers @ About.com
Rodgers @ Answers.com
Rodgers @ Big Bands Database Plus / http://nfo.net/sitemap.html
Rodgers @ The Broadway Musical Home
Rodgers @ CITWF / Complete Index to World Film
Rodgers @ Classic Cat
Rodgers @ Classic Movies
Rodgers @ Classical Archives
Rodgers @ Classical Net
Rodgers @ ClassicsToday (via google)
Rodgers @ Columbia 250
Rodgers @ Facebook
Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II @ Facebook
Rodgers @ Find a Grave
Rodgers @ IBDB (Internet Broadway Database)
Rodgers @ IMDb (Internet Movie Database)
Rodgers @ Infoplease
Rodgers @ InstantEncore
Rodgers @ The Kennedy Center
Rodgers @ The Library of Congress/The Richard Rodgers Collection
Rodgers @ Michael Feinstein's American Songbook
Rodgers @ MSN Music
Rodgers @ musicalwriters.com
Rodgers @ MusicWeb International
Rodgers @ musicianguide.com
Rodgers @ Naxos
Rodgers @ The New York Times
Rodgers @ NNDB
Rodgers @ notablebiographies.com
Rodgers @ NPR
Rodgers @ NPRmusic
Rodgers @ NYPL Digital Gallery/The Sweetest Sounds
Rodgers @ PBS/American Masters
Rodgers @ Portalwisconsin.org
Rodgers @ The Rodgers & Hammerstein Organiztion
Rodgers @ Songwriters Hall of Fame
Rodgers @ The Sound of Music Guide
Rodgers @ SoundtrackCollector
Rodgers @ SoundtrackNet
Rodgers @ SoundUnwound
Rodgers @ Starpulse.com
Rodgers @ Todd Peaches
Rodgers @ Turner Classic Movies
Rodgers @ WNKU/I'll Take Manhattan: The Music of Richard Rodgers
Streaming Audio
Rodgers @ Classical Archives
Rodgers @ last.fm
Rodgers @ NPR
Rodgers @ NPRmusic
Rodgers @ PRX (Public Radio Exchange)
Rodgers @ Rhapsody
Rodgers @ WNKU/I'll Take Manhattan: The Music of Richard Rodgers
Recordings
Rodgers @ ArkivMusic
Rodgers @ ClassicsOnline
Rodgers @ Discogs
Video
Rodgers @ YouTube
Rodgers @ Google Video
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