Word: hammersteins
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11:45 p.m.). Rodgers and Hammerstein's Flower Drum Song (1961) bows on TV with Nancy Kwan, James Shigeta and Juanita Hall...
...exceptions have mainly been the work of veteran songwriters like Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Rogers and Hammerstein, and Lerner and Lowe. They found it possible in the '50's to treat familiar tales of high society or backstage life which might have spelled doom in the hands of their juniors. Call Me Madam ,Can Can, The Sound of Music and Camelot were triumphs of technical genius, the net products of their creators rather than of their subject material...
...completely missed the lyrical revolution epitomized by Frank Loesser's How to Succeed, in which words like "Some irresponsible dress manufacturer" were set to music. The lyrics to Married Alive are still drawn from the same preposterous vocabulary (love, tree, rainbow, etc.) that dominated the worst of Hart and Hammerstein...
Wednesday, October 25 THE KING AND I (ABC, 7:30-10 p.m.).*Yul Brynner and Deborah Kerr in the film version of Rodgers & Hammerstein's musical...
Like all good popular artists, the Beatles have a talent for distilling the moods of their time. Gilbert and Sullivan's frolics limned the pomposities of the Victorian British Empah; Cole Porter's urbanities were wonderful tonics for the hung-over '30s; Rodgers and Hammerstein's ballads reflected the sentient and seriousness of the World War II era. Today the Beatles' cunning collages piece together scraps of tension between the generations, the loneliness of the dislocated '60s, and the bitter sweets of young love in any age. At the same time, their sensitivity...