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Died. Oscar Hammerstein II, 65, longtime lyricist laureate of Broadway: of cancer; in Doylestown, Pa. (see SHOW BUSINESS...
...music will be in a popular vein, ranging from Prokofieff's "Opus 99" to selections from Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Carousel" and "South Pacific." "We have made a special effort," Band director Bernard A. Wiseblatt '57 remarked, "to prepare a program suited in content to the outdoor summer setting, and suited in length to permit other evening activities following the concert...
Seventeen years and eight Broadway musicals after their first herculean hit (Oklahoma!). Composer Richard Rodgers, 58, abandoning memorable music for heartfelt words in the New York Times Magazine, saluted his friend and partner, Librettist Oscar Hammerstein II, on the eve of Hammerstein's 68th birthday this week. Their mutual affection is largely unspoken: "Oscar is fond of me-very fond, I think-as a man, and yet he has never even hinted vaguely at this. On the other hand, he's gone before the entire country on television and told everybody what a great person...
...Bass," and then added over the roars of laughter: "Oh no, that can't be right; that's the name of a fish." She has been known to refer to H.M.S. Pina fore as "everybody's favorite by Gilbert and Solomon," or to announce that "Rodger Hammerstein personally will conduct a number from South Pacific." To anybody familiar with her ways, it is per fectly obvious that when she announces a performance of "that wonderful concerto, the one with the tune," she is referring to Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 in C-Minor...
Little Mary Sunshine. Despite a title that would embarrass Oscar Hammerstein, the most phenomenal off-Broadway success since The Threepenny Opera is a reminiscent farce that parodies the sugar-glazed operettas of yesteryear's Kerns and Frimls...