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...Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma! opens on Broadway...
...Easy enough--just get the sheet music, assemble an orchestra and cast, and start playing. Well, no. A 17th century Monteverdi opera has cleaner, fuller charts than many an old Broadway hit, whose arrangements might have ended up in the garage or garbage. The parts for the Kern-Oscar Hammerstein II Sweet Adeline, which was performed outdoors, had dead mosquitoes stuck to the pages. Says Daykin: "The musicians didn't know if it was a note or a dead...
...rise of American popular culture: not only jazz and its innumerable variants but also what happened onstage, across the airwaves and on the movie screen. America took the European operetta, fused it with burlesque and jazz and created--through the genius of Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II and others--a broad, unique musical form. The '20s saw the rise of the Hollywood studio system, which had grown from its humble origins among (mostly immigrant Jewish) nickelodeon proprietors into the most powerful industry for the invention and spread of dreams in human history, at least until...
...manner in which the details of my career were gleaned from all parts of the country in a few weeks' time and so effectively pressed into a capsule of four pages. The next time I want to cut a show, I'll call you all in... OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN 2ND New York City...
...peripatetic author who embarked on a lifelong literary tour of the globe; after taking himself off dialysis; in Austin, Texas. While a Navy lieutenant during World War II, Michener began writing Tales of the South Pacific, a collection of stories that won him the Pulitzer Prize and Rodgers and Hammerstein's attention. Location, location, location was Michener's mantra: Hawaii, Alaska, Poland and, yes, even Space are a few of his titles. Michener rarely wavered from the formula that sold 75 million copies of his 40-odd books: he traveled to a chosen place, researched it exhaustively, then wrote workmanlike...