Word: pacificism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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According to the Vancouver Province, Jordan has put a deposit on a summer rental on the coast in West Vancouver, Canada, a posh suburb where his neighbors would be folks like Bryan Adams. There, with the chords of Cuts Like a Knife wafting out to the Pacific, Jordan could decide...
As dreary as the Pacific Northwest coast around which his tales are spun, Byers' short stories inventively explore the domains of psychology and interpersonal relationships through the minds of his chief actors. The briny odor of Seattle air clings damply to the pages of the book, with Byers' distinct imagery...
Like Rodgers, Hammerstein was keen to push the boundaries of the musical, which was only slightly more sophisticated than a vaudeville revue. In the program of his 1924 Broadway show Rose-Marie, for instance, he and the other authors wrote that the musical numbers were too integral to the book...
Rodgers and Hammerstein wrote nine musicals together. Five are legendary hits: Oklahoma!, Carousel, South Pacific, The King and I and The Sound of Music. (Flower Drum Song was a success, but not in the same league as the golden five.) They wrote one film musical, State Fair, and the TV...
What sets the great Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals apart for me is their directness and their awareness of the importance of construction in musical theater. Years ago, I played through the piano score of South Pacific. It is staggering how skillfully reprises are used as scene-change music that sets...