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Thanks to such facility, Rodgers left an unparalleled catalogue of popular music when he died last week at 77. I Could Write a Book, the title of one of his songs, aptly expresses the feelings of anybody setting out to list his accomplishments. Among Rodgers' 1,000-odd compositions...
"When the lyrics are right, it's easier for me to write a tune than to bend over and tie my shoelaces," Richard Rodgers once remarked. Many composers would have been happy to tie Rodgers' shoes for him if only they had been able to fill them. He...
Always an innovator, Rodgers liked to introduce surprising harmonic complexities. But his melodies had an unfailingly natural flow and simplicity that, in retrospect, seemed like inevitability. Many were built on the basic steps of the scale (My Romance, Dancing on the Ceiling) or returned repeatedly to the same note or...
Descended from Russian immigrants, Rodgers used to say that his original family surname was so long that not even he knew just what it was. His father was a well-to-do New York physician who took the family to operas and musicals and liked to sing the scores at...
At 19, having contributed some songs to a Broadway show, Rodgers dropped out of Columbia University to compose musicals full time. For the next few years he got nowhere. Considering himself a failure at 22, he was about to take a job as a salesman for children's underwear...