Richard Rodgers Reader

Informationen zum Autor Geoffrey Block is Professor of Music History at the University of Puget Sound. The author of Enchanted Evenings (OUP 1997) and three books on Charles Ives, he is now completing a book on Richard Rodgers's Broadway career. Klappentext In the centennial of Richard Rodgers' birth comes a new collection of writings by and about one of America's favorite composers. Includes selections from more than 30 years of Rodgers' own writings on a wide variety of topics. 5 halftones. Zusammenfassung Arranged in four sections, this collection offers informative, biographical and critical overviews. It also contains a selection of Rodgers's letters to his wife Dorothy, and concludes with selections from his writings on creative process, the state of the Broadway theater, his bout with cancer, and his Columbia University interviews.

Product details

• Authors: Geoffrey Block, Geoffrey (Professor of Music History Block, Geoffrey Holden Block, Professor Geoffrey Block
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.2002
• EAN: 9780195139549
• ISBN: 978-0-19-513954-9
• No. of pages: 368
• Series: Readers on American Musicians; Readers on American Musicians
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Music > Monographs